Blimey, I never thought this thread would take off so! It doesn't half make me feel old though! It seems I'm a good decade too past it to have grown up on the Garbage Pail Kids. (I presume this was a skit on The Cabbage Patch dolls? If so, I'm darkly amused)!
One consolation is that I'm still too fresh out of thew womb to recall postcards of train crashes and the like.The friend who mentioned them to me implied that they were being phased out in the seventies and could only be found still in the small rural town that he grew up in.
(Well, at least they didn't have swastikas on them!)