The FIRST Garbage Pail Kid

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".

UNPUBLISHED Garbage Pail Kids

for Series 2

for Series 3 (revised for Series 5, but rejected again)

for Series 5

Occasionally Garbage Pail Kids paintings were created but were rejected by Topps, and never became stickers. Those shown above were painted by John Pound.