How much is Dead Ted #5a Glossy 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 worth?

Value by grade on GPK Price Guide: PSA 10: $2,972 (2 sales, PSA pop 13); PSA 9: $273 (25 sales, PSA pop 55); PSA 8.5: $109 (1 sale, PSA pop 1); PSA 8: $104 (9 sales, PSA pop 53); PSA 7: $59 (5 sales, PSA pop 26); PSA 6.5: $55 (estimate, no sale yet, PSA pop 1); PSA 6: $54 (10 sales, PSA pop 27); PSA 5: $44 (6 sales, PSA pop 20); PSA 4: $33 (5 sales, PSA pop 9); PSA 3: $31 (1 sale, PSA pop 4); PSA 2: $21 (1 sale, PSA pop 3); PSA 1: $20 (estimate, no sale yet, PSA pop 1).

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Dead Ted #5a 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 · Glossy · PSA 2

Glossy

ScarcityPSA has graded 3x more base copies

PSA has graded 649 of the base card and 213 of this parallel (all grades). Graded counts are not print runs.

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PSA pop3

PSA 2 · 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1 →

— Hold · next 3 monthsNo sale in the last 3 months, so there is no fresh price to read; it stays a hold until it sells again.

PSA pop · this parallel

Card # 5a⇄ 5BJay Decay

All grades · value and PSA population

DEAD TED ACTIVE

SOLD ALL DEAD TED

no PSA 2 listed on eBay right now

RAW (UNGRADED) — NOT A GRADED VALUE

$19

4 raw sales used for this value view raw sales →

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Price history · PSA 2

Grade: Parallel: Year:

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.

Date	Price	Grade	Cert	Type
2026-07-19	$22	PSA 2	155988312 ↗	BestOffer

Sales & value over time

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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

Subject trend

Dead Ted — across all cards

30 / 60 / 90 day momentum, every card we have for Dead Ted

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🗑️ The Garbologist says…

Too Thin To Call

Straight from the Garbologist's clipboard:

Only 1 recorded sale on the books — not enough for a trend without kidding ourselves. The last one changed hands at $22 on 2026-07-19.
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.

Dead Ted — across every card

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Every Dead Ted card we track — how the character is moving, not just this one grade.

🧬 Should I slab it?

Grade it

Only about 1 in 16 copies of this card get a 10; across every grade, a graded copy should be worth about $299, more than the $110 it costs to grade plus the $19 raw copy you give up.

Expected value if graded$189 (after $110 all-in cost)

Raw value today$19 (from 4 raw sales)

VerdictGrade it

Grading pays even without a 10.

Chance of a PSA 10

this card · 213 graded

PSA 10 value

$2,972

today · ~$2,972 by Feb 12, 2027

PSA 9 value

$273

today · ~$273 by Feb 12, 2027

All-in cost

$110

PSA fee $60 + shipping both ways $32 + likely upcharge $18

How these numbers work

All-in cost $110: PSA Standard tier fee $60 per card (expected $78 with PSA's upcharge if it comes back worth more than the tier allows), 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): ~$90 all-in, so a graded copy would net ~$209.
Grade odds (this card, 213 PSA-graded): 10 · 6%, 9 · 26%, 8 · 25%, 7 or lower · 43%. 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.

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Dead Ted #5a Glossy 1985 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 value by grade

Grade	Value	Sales	PSA pop
PSA 10	$2,972	2	13
PSA 9	$273	25	55
PSA 8.5	$109	1	1
PSA 8	$104	9	53
PSA 7	$59	5	26
PSA 6.5	$55 est.	0	1
PSA 6	$54	10	27
PSA 5	$44	6	20
PSA 4	$33	5	9
PSA 3	$31	1	4
PSA 2	$21	1	3
PSA 1	$20 est.	0	1

Every grade of this card on one page. Est. = no sale at that grade yet. Tap a grade above to switch the whole page to it.

PSA 10	$1,162 pop 36
PSA 9	$221 pop 176
PSA 9 (OC)	$105 pop —
PSA 8.5	$124 pop 6
PSA 8	$83 pop 190
PSA 8 (OC)	$20 pop —
PSA 8 (MC)	$65 EST. pop —
PSA 7	$57 pop 91
PSA 7 (ST)	$44 EST. pop —
PSA 6	$42 pop 80
PSA 5	$30 pop 33
PSA 4.5	$30 EST. pop 1
PSA 4	$28 pop 20
PSA 3	$28 pop 13
PSA 3 (MK)	— EST. pop —
PSA 2	$21 pop 3
PSA 1	$20 EST. pop —

PSA 10	$1,530 pop 20
PSA 9	$213 pop 109
PSA 8	$84 pop 164
PSA 7	$53 pop 83
PSA 6	$43 pop 75
PSA 5	$35 pop 36
PSA 4	$26 pop 12
PSA 3.5	$25 EST. pop 1
PSA 3	$25 pop 6
PSA 3 (MK)	$21 EST. pop —
PSA 2	$17 pop 5
PSA 1	$16 EST. pop 1

PSA 10	$2,159 pop 9
PSA 9	$319 pop 41
PSA 8.5	$144 EST. pop 4
PSA 8	$139 pop 68
PSA 7	$69 pop 24
PSA 6.5	$57 EST. pop 1
PSA 6	$47 pop 22
PSA 5	$47 pop 17
PSA 4	$31 EST. pop 3
PSA 3	$28 pop 6
PSA 2	$27 EST. pop 2
PSA 1	$26 EST. pop —

PSA 10	$2,972 pop 13
PSA 9	$273 pop 55
PSA 8.5	$109 pop 1
PSA 8	$104 pop 53
PSA 7	$59 pop 26
PSA 6.5	$55 EST. pop 1
PSA 6	$54 pop 27
PSA 5	$44 pop 20
PSA 4	$33 pop 9
PSA 3	$31 pop 4
PSA 2	$21 pop 3
PSA 1	$20 EST. pop 1