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Price history · PSA 8.5

1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1

Slimy Sam

Name: 1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1 Glossy #38A Slimy Sam — PSA 8.5
Brand: Topps
Availability: InStock

Glossy

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PSA pop—not published

PSA 8.5 · 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1 →

Never sold — estimate

PSA pop · this parallel

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Card # 38A

Garbage Pail Kids

TCA Value iTCAxis Value is a recency-weighted market value from REAL sales of this exact card+grade (recent comps count most, outliers stripped) — steadier and harder to game than a single 'last sale', which can be one lucky auction or a shill bid. When a card has few or no recent comps, we estimate transparently from its own older sales, its other grades, and comparable cards (same subject/set/rarity tier), factoring subject trend and scarcity — and we LABEL it as an estimate until real sales arrive.

$75

PSA 8.5 · estimate — never sold

Confidence

★☆☆☆☆

0 comp sales

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Estimated range FROM OTHER GRADES

$26.94 ≈$75.00 $239.76

8.9x spread Estimated from other grades of this card ›

● real comps ● est. — own older sales ● est. — never sold ● unsold

Last Sale

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Avg Sale (30d)

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Volume (30d)

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Parallels — 2 for this card

Glossy

$75 EST.

pop 1 @ PSA 8.5

Glossy

PSA 10	$738 pop 28
PSA 9	$129 pop 63
PSA 8.5	$75 EST. pop 1
PSA 8	$75 pop 54
PSA 7	$60 pop 24
PSA 6	$42 pop 11
PSA 5	$26 pop 12
PSA 4	$18 pop 7
PSA 3	$12 EST. pop —
PSA 2	$8 EST. pop —
PSA 1	$6 EST. pop —

Base

$38

pop — @ PSA 8.5

Base pop 515

PSA 10	$269 pop 43
PSA 9	$107 pop 170
PSA 8.5	$38 pop —
PSA 8	$65 pop 114
PSA 7.5	$34 EST. pop —
PSA 7	$27 pop 62
PSA 6.5	$16 pop —
PSA 6	$25 pop 46
PSA 5	$26 pop 26
PSA 4	$18 pop 25
PSA 3	$12 EST. pop —
PSA 2	$8 EST. pop —
PSA 1	$6 EST. pop —

🗑️ The Garbologist says…

Too Thin To Call

The Garbologist sniffed around the sales pile.

Nobody's actually sold this exact card and grade on record, so there's no live market to read — the price you see is a modeled estimate, not a realized sale.
With this little to go on, the honest answer is we can't call a direction — one auction would swing the whole read.

Automated analysis generated from this card’s real recorded sales and PSA population data — no opinions, no predictions guaranteed. Entertainment and research only, not financial advice.

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Glossy

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Base

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Cross-Grader Values

Values across grading services for this card (BGS / SGC / CGC / others + Raw) — from cross-grader comps.

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Grader vs PSA — % value difference at the same grade

🧬 Should I slab it?

Worth grading

About a 14% gem (PSA 10) rate on this card's own PSA pop - graded pop is self-selected (best copies get submitted), so a random raw likely grades lower. Expected value ~$177 before the $49 PSA fee (fee only - excludes shipping & insurance), ~$128 after, vs a raw copy around $15 (est.). Grading pencils out here, especially if you hit the $738 ten.

Gem (PSA 10) rate

14%

this card · 200 graded

PSA 10 value

$738

if you hit the ten

Grading cost

$49

PSA Regular tier

Expected after grade

$128

vs raw ~$15 est.

Probability-weighted across grades using PSA population as a proxy for this set’s cut & print quality, minus the grading fee. A guide, not a guarantee — centering and eye-appeal on your specific copy decide the grade.