SDCC 2022 Exclusive “Triple Threat” Comic Con Variant Companion Baseball Card by Alex Pardee

After a three year hiatus (damn you pandemic!!!), Alex Pardee is heading back to San Diego Comic-Con later this week with a bunch of crazy exclusives. First up is this limited edition San Diego Comic-Con 2022 Exclusive “Triple Threat” Comic Con Variant Companion Baseball Card. This card is like nothing Pardee has done with his popular line of companion baseball cards to date. It's cut out in the center and replaced with clear plastic, giving the whole card a transparent look where it’s cut out.

Limited to just 100 pieces, this “Triple Threat” Comic Con Variant Baseball Card can be purchased at Pardee’s SDCC booth #5502/5503 for $75 (limit 2 per person per day). Alex will most likely be releasing a limited amount of the Comic-Con exclusive trading card each day, but nothing is set in stone so def show up early! Now... who's picking The Blot up one!?!?

NYCC 2021 Exclusive Garbage Pail Kids “Mad Mike Fury Load” Print by Joe Simko x Topps

Check out this awesome New York Comic Con 2021 Exclusive Garbage Pail Kids “Mad Mike Fury Load” Print by Joe Simko and Topps! The poster was originally designed for the new GPK stop-motion animated Mad Mike Fury Load trilogy and will only be available at the Topps NYCC booth #2557 this weekend. This signed 6”x9” prints will be given away for free at the Topps booth during Joe Simko’s scheduled signings at 12pm ET on Friday, October 8th, and Saturday, October 9th.

There will also be 1 large size Garbage Pail Kids “Mad Mike Fury Load” movie poster given away each day of NYCC to 4 lucky raffle winners. Parts 1 and 2 of the GPK short film are available now on YouTube with Part 3 premiering at noon on Saturday of NYCC.

Sket One is Giving Away a One of a Kind Buntee Resin Figure to Celebrate his TOPPS Project 70 Card!

As part of TOPPS epic ongoing Project 70 card line, Toy Tokyo has teamed up with artist Sket One to design a fantastic Carl Yastrzemski Boston Red Sox 1990 card. This Timed Edition card is available now at Topps.com for just 70 hours (with less than 24 hours left when this post goes live). Along with the standard version of this card, random orders may receive a Rainbow Foil variant (LE 70) or the 1/1 Gold Frame Edition. There’s also the Artist Proof Silver Frame Edition that’s limited to 51 cards. The total run size of this Sket One x Toy Tokyo Carl Yastrzemski card will be set by the number of orders placed during the 70 hours it is available. 

As if the card wasn’t enough, Sket One is giving away this one of a kind Buntee resin figure to the person who purchases the most Yaz cards! The contest is really simple: whomever buys the most Sket One x Toy Tokyo Carl Yastrzemski base cars between May 14-17 from Topps.com will win this 1 of 1 resin figures. To enter, please send Sket your proof of purchase and order numbers after the ordering window closes.

The Topps Baseball Vintage T-Shirt Collection by Homage

While most people are talking about football on this America’s biggest sports day of the year (the Super Bowl's today, duh), The Blot thought I’d turn my attention to the nation’s former favorite pastime, baseball! Everyone at some point in their life has bought a pack of trading cards (or wax packs), whether it was baseball cards, basketball cards, Garbage Pail Kids, Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon, and no name is more synonymous with trading cards than The Topps Company. Topps definitely played a big role in The Blot’s childhood, so of course I was really blown away to find out about these Topps vintage t-shirts by Homage!

Evidently the Topps x Homage Collection has been out for a while, but no one bothered to tell me. These Topps vintage t-shirts are inspired by the magic of card collecting, and features original Topps artwork from actual wax packs and old baseball cards found deep in the Topps Archives. Five different designs were produced in all (4 t-shirts and 1 hoodie), each one better than the last. My personal favorites are the “Topps All Star Rookie”, featuring the annual Topps All-Star Rookie Team logo, and “The Real One”.

The Topps x Homage Collection is currently available for purchase in sizes XS-XXXL at the Homage online store. The vintage t-shirts retail for $28, while the vintage Topps Baseball hoodie sells for $65.

The Hundreds x Garbage Pail Kids Collection

Last week The Hundreds released a new collaboration with Topps featuring one of The Blot’s all time favorite trading card series, Garbage Pail Kids! It feels like the Garbage Pail Kids are definitely having a resurgence in 2011, as I’ve seen their names pop up a number times in our little corner of the art world, and it couldn’t have happened to a better ‘80s property.

Originally created as a spin-off of Topp’s Wacky Packages in 1985, Garbage Pail Kids quickly skyrocketed into everyone’s childhood memories through trading cards, stickers and key chains. What’s really cool about this collection is that it’s the first collaboration in Garbage Pail Kids’ 26-year history of creating disgustingly hilarious and outrageous characters. The Hundreds x Garbage Pail Kids Collection consists of five special edition The Hundreds themed characters, a proud addition to the over two dozen Garbage Pail Kids series created over the years.

The Hundreds x Topps Garbage Pail Kids includes “Adam Bomb”, which consists of The Hundreds’ signature character with an exploding head; “Bloggy Bobby”, a character with a melted face due to a technology overload; “Burger Ben”, a character chowing down on a greasy burger; “Stinky Scotty”, a character with bright blue hair, a skateboard, and several indications that he reeks; and “Trashy Ashley” a character wrapped in backstage passes and drenched in booze.

This killer collaboration includes THxGPK t-shirts ($36), snapback hats ($32), crewnecks ($64) and keychains ($5), all of which can be purchased at all of The Hundreds retail locations, The Hundreds online stores and select specialty stores worldwide. And be sure to keep your eyes out for the super rare The Hundreds x Garbage Pail Kids Doubles, which are the twins to the The Hundreds Garbage Pail Kids characters and feature an alternate identity. These THxGPK Doubles are being printed in extremely low numbers (less than 20 of each Double), and will be randomly assorted throughout all distribution.