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1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1

Swell Mel

Name: 1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1 #20A Swell Mel — PSA 5.5
Brand: Topps
Availability: InStock

Base

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PSA pop—not published

PSA 5.5 · 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1 →

Never sold — estimate

PSA pop · this parallel

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Card # 20A

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.

$19

PSA 5.5 · estimate — never sold

Confidence

★☆☆☆☆

0 comp sales

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Estimated range FROM OTHER GRADES

$6.97 ≈$19.40 $62.02

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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across 0 sales

Volume (30d)

0 sales

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Parallels — 2 for this card

Base

$19 EST.

pop — @ PSA 5.5

Base

PSA 10	$1,018 pop —
PSA 9	$141 pop 132
PSA 8.5	$30 pop —
PSA 8	$47 pop 177
PSA 7.5	$22 EST. pop —
PSA 7	$98 pop 78
PSA 6	$26 pop 54
PSA 5.5	$19 EST. pop —
PSA 5	$23 pop 19
PSA 4	$8 pop 13
PSA 3	$8 pop 6
PSA 2	$7 EST. pop —
PSA 1	$6 EST. pop —

Glossy

$749

pop 14 @ PSA 5.5

Glossy

PSA 10	$749 pop 14
PSA 9	$247 pop 37
PSA 8	$110 pop 53
PSA 7.5	$59 EST. pop 1
PSA 7	$51 pop 38
PSA 6	$59 pop 18
PSA 5	$37 EST. pop —
PSA 4	$23 EST. pop —
PSA 3	$15 EST. pop —
PSA 2	$9 EST. pop —
PSA 1	$6 pop 1
PSA cgc8	— EST. pop —

🗑️ The Garbologist says…

Too Thin To Call

Straight from the Garbologist's clipboard:

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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Base

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Glossy

PSABGSCGCSGC

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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 5% 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 ~$125 before the $79 PSA fee (fee only - excludes shipping & insurance), ~$46 after, vs a raw copy around $10 (est.). Grading pencils out here, especially if you hit the $1,018 ten.

Gem (PSA 10) rate

5%

this card · 506 graded

PSA 10 value

$1,018

if you hit the ten

Grading cost

$79

PSA Regular tier

Expected after grade

$46

vs raw ~$10 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.