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...
by Shawn Robare | Sep 29, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, there are just two short days before the official beginning of the 2011 Countdown to Halloween and I couldn’t be more excited. Though I’ve run out of cool Real Ghostbusters monster animation cels to share (like I did in 2009 and 2010), I do have a...
