by Shawn Robare | Oct 22, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s day 22, and we’re starting the last full week of the 2011 Countdown to Halloween here at Branded in the 80s. So far there have been 266 different masks from all sorts of different companies like Don Post Studios, Death Studios, Distortions...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 21, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Welcome to the end of the third week of the Countdown to Halloween. There are only 10 days left until Samhain, and I’m really pumped to be in the home stretch. Today I have one of the last Don Post mask ads in my collection (if not the last) which...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 20, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, we’re up to Day 20 of the 2011 Countdown and this one is a super monster-sized edition of Halloween Mask Madness! Though we dipped out toes a bit into the 90s with the last post, today we’re going to backtrack a little to 1988 with the start of...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 19, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, with Day 19 we’re exiting the 80s and entering a whole new decade of monster mask shenanigans on the countdown. Today’s vintage advertisement came out of a 1990 issue of Fangoria (I’m not sure which issue right at the moment), and...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 18, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s day 18 of the countdown, and once again this month feels like it’s just whizzing by! For today’s vintage mask ephemera I’ve selected this 1989 Distortions advertistment titled Nightmares. It hails from issue #86 of Fangoria and...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 17, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s well into week three of the Halloween season and the Monster Mask Madness continues today with another vintage ad from Death Studios. This one comes out of issue #84 of Fangoria, and was published back in 1989… I was really surprised that this...