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2021 Trick or Treat Studios Hammer Horror Mask Line
Trick or Treat Studios followed up their initial 2020 Hammer Horrors mask release with an additional three characters including the Christopher Lee Curse of Frankenstein sculpted by Russ Lukich , 7...
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Happy Independence Day Weekend
Here's wishing you all a safe and fun Fourth of July weekend. Do your best not to blow yourself up. Posting will resume next week with some new catalog scans. Cheers!Photo Credit:Jackie Alpers. Photo...
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Masks in Art Monday: The Queen of Plastiline
"The Queen of Plastiline" by Mark Tavares, a tribute to the legendary Don Post Studios sculptress and artist, Pat Newman as seen at the "Art of the Halloween Mask" exhibit back in October of...
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1967 Star Band Brochure
Today's scans come courtesy of catalog exchanges I made with the good folks over at Blow-Molded which is "the largest and most comprehensive archive of 3,124 blow-molded, injection-molded, vacucel,...
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Super7 Universal Monsters Retro Monster Masks
Over the past two weeks I've posted about the various licensed Universal Studios Monster masks of recent vintage. Here is another licensed line that is very cool and certainly worth mentioning, the...
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Variants of the Super7 Universal Monsters Retro Monster Masks
In yesterday's post I mentioned that Super7 had issued several variants of their Universal Monster Masks. Here are some examples of the wild color combos they came up with...Super7 Creature Mask...
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Rue Morgue Interview - Get to Know the Monster Makers Behind Rock Bottom...
Happy Friday Creeps! I am super stoked to share a link to an interview that Rue Morgue magazine just posted on their website with the good folks behind Rock Bottom Novelties (Aaron Lewis, and yours...
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I wanted to follow up yesterday's post on the Rock Bottom Novelties interview with Rue Morgue Magazine by posting a few promo videos done in typical Rock Bottom style...
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1980 Toys R Us Halloween Ad
This Toy's "R" Us newspaper advertisement from October 23rd 1980 checks a lot of the boxes needed for early 80's Halloween fun. Collegeville and Ben Cooper masks? Check. 150 Line Don Post masks? Check....
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1954 Halco / Halperen Ad
Throughout the years, there haven't been many Halco posts, as the catalogs and ads can be mighty hard to track down. But here is an ad from the May 1954 issue of Toys and Novelties. There is mention of...
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Sally's 1957 Halloween Catalouge
This 1957 Sally's Halloween Catalouge was posted several years ago on the Euclid Boo Blog, and it offers a glimpse of some really old and rare masks within it's pages. There are a number of Halco...
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1990s Hockey Mask Ads
Does anyone remember this cheap plastic "Hannibal Voorhees" mask? This mask refused to pick a direction, and depending on your view of things, either failed miserably at representing both, or was a...
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Marc Samson Designs Postcard
While digging through some old folders yesterday, I found this small paper relic of Maskfest past. It's a postcard that I picked up from the Marc Samson Design booth at Maskfest several years ago. So I...
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Topstone Lagoon Monster Monster Memories Magazine Article
Hey Creeps! Here is a very nostalgic article that was published in the 2007 Scary Monsters Monster Memories Yearbook that includes some shenanigans with a Topstone Lagoon Monster mask...
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Don Post Studios 300 Line Catalog Sheet
This Don Post Studios 1970s catalog sheet featuring the 300 Line mask line is a variation from the one previously posted in the Catalog Archives. I did not realize that the Herman Munster mask was...
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1974 Kusan Catalog
This 1974 Kusan catalog is chocked full of brilliantly colored illustrations combined with gaudy but beautiful mid-70's graphic design. Kusan costumes didn't have the same impact as Ben Cooper or...
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Kusan Vacuform Masks
It seems appropriate to follow up yesterday's post of the 1974 Kusan Catalog with some images of the masks, costumes, and packages. As I mentioned previously, Kusan didn't have the same impact as Ben...
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