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Garbage Pail Kids were created by Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. in 1985. Several artists collaborated
to make them the most talked about craze in non-sport card history. Some of these great artists included John Pound, Art Spiegelman,
Mark Newgarden, and Jay Lynch. There were 15 sets made. The 16th set was started but never finished. "Garbage Pail Kids" made
fun of "Cabbage Patch Kids".
The artwork shown here was the very first Garbage Pail Kid ever made! It was painted by John Pound
for Topps'1985 series of Wacky Packages, but it was never published.
A few days after this painting was completed,
Topps asked John Pound to begin creating idea sketches and paintings for a new sticker series, to be called "Garbage Pail
Kids".
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