General Information
Year Released	1986
Card Numbers	125a-166a and 125b-166b
Number of Cards to Make a Numerical Set	84
Number of Variation Cards	7
Number of Cards to Make a Complete Variation Set	91
Total Number of Different Wrappers	10
Section Last Updated	January 1, 2015

 

Card and Wrapper Variations

Card Variations

125a - Holly Wood - Checklist with 125b Woody Alan (on back) 125a - Holly Wood - Checklist with 125b Oak Kay (on back) 125b - Woody Alan 125b - Oak Kay 138a - Alien Ian - Checklist with 125b Woody Alan (on back) 138a - Alien Ian - Checklist with 125b Oak Kay (on back) 138b - Outerspace Chase - Checklist with 125b Woody Alan (on back) 138b - Outerspace Chase - Checklist with 125b Oak Kay (on back) 149a - Reese Pieces 149a - Puzzled Paul 158b - Crystal Gale 158b - Ig Lou 164b - Salvatore Dolly 164b - Battered Brad

Wrapper Variations

0-491-21-01-6 - Printed with 25¢ - Purple Mushroom Cloud - Sweatshirt Offer 0-491-21-01-6 - Printed with 25¢ - Purple Mushroom Cloud - T-shirt Offer 0-491-21-01-6 - Printed with 25¢ - White Mushroom Cloud - Sweatshirt Offer 0-491-21-01-6 - Printed with 25¢ - White Mushroom Cloud - T-shirt Offer 0-491-21-02-6 - Printed without 25¢ - Purple Mushroom Cloud - Sweatshirt Offer 0-491-21-02-6 - Printed without 25¢ - Purple Mushroom Cloud - T-shirt Offer 0-491-21-02-6 - Printed without 25¢ - White Mushroom Cloud - Sweatshirt Offer 0-491-21-02-6 - Printed without 25¢ - White Mushroom Cloud - T-shirt Offer 0-490-21-06-6 - Printed with 25¢ - Purple Mushroom Cloud - Sweatshirt Offer 0-490-21-06-6 - Printed with 25¢ - Purple Mushroom Cloud - T-shirt Offer

Printable Card and Wrapper Variation Checklist

You can either click the following link to open the variation checklist in a new window and print it out, or you can right-click the following link and save the variation checklist to your computer.  United States Garbage Pail Kids 4th Series Card and Wrapper Variation Checklist

Printable Extended Card Variation Checklist

The extended card variation checklist contains all of the card variations noted in the regular variation checklist plus any asterisk and card finish differences.  These differences are typically not considered variations, which is why they were excluded from the regular variation checklist.        You can either click the following link to open the variation checklist in a new window and print it out, or you can right-click the following link and save the variation checklist to your computer.  United States Garbage Pail Kids 4th Series Extended Card Variation Checklist

 

Card Image Samples

 

Additional Notes

Based on all of the different wrapper codes, there most likely were several printings for the United States Garbage Pail Kids 4th Series, but design changes only were made once.  There were four card numbers where the character names were changed.  Card 125b Woody Alan was changed to 125b Oak Kay, card 149a Reese Pieces was changed to 149a Puzzled Paul, card 158b Crystal Gale was changed to 158b Ig Lou, and card 164b Salvatore Dolly was changed to 164b Battered Brad.  These cards are not rare or uncommon.  The checklists were also changed because of the name changes.  It is not possible to get all of the variations from just one print wave (referring to the design characteristics unique to that printing), so one box is needed from both print waves in order to make a variation set.

 
 
 
 

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