by Shawn Robare | Oct 6, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s day six of the countdown and once again we’re dipping into some familiar territory with another Don Post mask advertisement. This one hails from issue #14 of Fangoria from 1981 and brings the scale down a bit from the Starlog 1979 AD I posted...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 5, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s day five of the countdown, and I thought I’d take a look at some more Don Post masks with a couple more ads from Starlog. First up is a 1980 ad for an Empire Strikes Back Yoda mask… What obviously struck me when I first flipped to this...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 4, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Welcome back to day four of Branded’s Countdown to Halloween! Today’s ad is really cool because it features a ton of masks, and for the first time in the countdown they’re in glorious full color! This two-page spread of Don Post masks...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 3, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
For day three let me present an ad for Dick Smith’s iconic Space Creatures make-up/mask kits from the very first issue of Fangoria published in 1979! Granted, these kits required a little more effort than just pulling an all-in-one mask over your head, but for...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 2, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Welcome back to the Month of Monster Mask Madness! For today’s feature I thought I’d share the remaining ads from my Famous Monsters of Filmland collection (which I started this past Thursday.) I don’t have a lot of issues of FMoF, but I...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 1, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Welcome to the first day of Branded in the 80s 2011 Countdown to Halloween! This year is all about monster masks (with a little bit of Vincent Price to liven things up.) Check back here ever day through the month of October for some fun vintage monster...
