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Question for everyone.  I don't normally pickup Garbage Pail Kids cards, but I grabbed some of the new 2016 cards on a whim.  There is no checklist currently on the site.  When I went to Topps, I found a checklist, but it has sub-headers for the different sections of cards.  Here is a link:

http://www.topps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CheckList_GPKApplePie.pdf

My problem is, I could make the checklist and add the sub-headers like I did on the 2015 Garbage Pail Kids 30th Anniversary checklist or leave them out.  Leaving them out creates multiple 1a or 1b cards, but putting them in makes them look like a card that can be collected even though it can't.  So long story short, do I make the checklist with the sub-headers or without?  Thanks.

Putting the headings in as line items in the checklist is not correct.

Beyond that it gets tricky.

If you add the subsets in as insert sets, then either the first set or subsequent subsets will have the wrong name displayed.

I think the cleanest way to do it is to do a straight list of the cards with the card numbers as written (the database has no problem with card numbers repeated within a set), then put the subset name in the Note2 field.  Either that or make an abbreviation for each subset name to put in the Note field and spell out the subset names in the Glossary.

-Tom

It's as if card companies go out of their way to complicate set numbering and collecting.

Abbreviations in Note field are used to identify subsets.  Here are a few suggestions for some of the subsets:

RUG - Americana Swept Under Rug
DVOL - Americana Devolved
CAND - Presidental Candidates
ICON - American Icons