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Jolted Joel #53a 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Series 2 · PSA 9

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PSA 9 · 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 2 →

⤴ Buy · next 3 monthsIt sold for $50 lately, below the about $70 it sold for in the nine months before, while most cards in its set sold higher. Cards with a dip this size usually sold back close to their earlier price within 3 months, a little under it (577 cards since 2019).
PSA pop · this parallel
43
Card # 53a⇄ 53BLive Mike
GPK Price Guide Value iBased on this card’s sales at this grade: 2 sales in 2026 near $60; similar cards point higher ($69); and 5 older sales from 2024-2025 near $53, about $82 after the set's rise since.
$63
PSA 9 · from 9 real sales · last sold Oct 19
PSA 10 comp $333
🟢 lowest on eBay: $125 all-in
🛒 1 listing on eBay now PSA 9 SLAB
RAW (UNGRADED) — NOT A GRADED VALUE
$4
96 raw sales used for this value view raw sales →
● real comps ● est. — own older sales ● est. — never sold ● unsold
Price history · PSA 9
On-the-record sales go back as far as PSA reports them — late 2017 for GPK — plus eBay-tracked and raw sales as they land.
DatePriceGradeCertType
2026-10-19$50PSA 920302464 ↗Auction
2026-07-28$70PSA 924977390 ↗
2025-07-27$42.14PSA 925816522 ↗
2025-05-20$59.99PSA 920302464 ↗
2025-03-13$51PSA 9102099734 ↗Auction
2025-01-10$59.99PSA 9100991170 ↗
2024-12-30$52.77PSA 997070643 ↗
2018-04-29$21.99PSA 922759565 ↗
2017-12-06$7.50PSA 927330825 ↗Auction

🗑️ The Garbologist says…

Too Few Recent Sales
The Garbologist has been digging through this one's trash.
  • 9 recorded sales · 2 in the last year · trades only a few times a year · moderate-confidence sample.
  • The recent trail reads $51 → $60 → $42 → $70 → $50 — choppy but broadly rangebound.
  • Heads up: the last recorded sale ($50 on 2026-10-19) landed 21% below our current value — weigh it as a single data point.
  • Census check: PSA has graded 144 of this card, and only 8.3% come back a 10 — tough to gem.
  • None

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.

Jolted Joel — across every card

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🧬 Should I slab it?

Only if you're confident it's a 10

Only about 1 in 12 copies of this card get a 10, and a 9 is worth $63 — less than the $92 it costs to grade.

Expected value if gradedunder $0 (the likely slab, $64, is $28 short of the $92 all-in cost)
Raw value today$4 (from 96 raw sales)
VerdictOnly if you're confident it's a 10

Break-even: you need about a 19% chance of a PSA 10 (this card: 8%).

Chance of a PSA 10
8%
this card · 144 graded
PSA 10 value
$333
today · ~$333 by Feb 12, 2027
PSA 9 value
$63
today · ~$63 by Feb 12, 2027
All-in cost
$92
PSA fee $60 + shipping both ways $32
How these numbers work
All-in cost $92: PSA Standard tier fee $60 per card, insured shipping to PSA ~$12, PSA insured return shipping ~$20. Sending it to your PSA Vault instead skips return shipping (vault intake and storage are free): ~$72 all-in, so a graded copy would net ~under $0.
Grade odds (this card, 144 PSA-graded): 10 · 8%, 9 · 30%, 8 · 22%, 7 or lower · 40%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 12, 2027): today's values (the set has no clear 3-month trend).
Expected value if graded = each grade's chance × its value, minus the all-in cost. A guide, not a guarantee — centering and corners on your copy decide the grade.

Jolted Joel #53a 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Series 2 value by grade

GradeValueSalesPSA pop
PSA 10$333612
PSA 9$63943
PSA 8.5$46 est.01
PSA 8$451131
PSA 7$23112
PSA 6$18214
PSA 5$17420
PSA 4$16 est.08
PSA 3$15 est.02
PSA 2$14 est.01

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