by Shawn Robare | Oct 9, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Welcome back to another entry in the 2011 Branded Countdown to Halloween! It’s day ten, and though today’s monster mask ad is a little sparse, it’s one of my favorites. Originally found in issue #25 of Fangoria from 1983, this is another...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 8, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Well, it’s the beginning of the second week of the Countdown to Halloween and I’ve been having a blast so far. Not only are there almost 25% more sites participating in the 2011 blogging event, but this is the first year in a while where I...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 7, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
We’ve come to the end of the first full week of the Countdown and there have been roughly 88 different masks on display so far (it’s hard sometimes to tell with the repetition of the Don Post ads…) Today brings the first ad from a new company...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 6, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So continuing on with the Vincentennial celebrations, today I wanted to take a look at my favorite Price film, The Last Man on Earth… For those not familiar, the flick is based on a novella by Richard Matheson titled I Am Legend, and follows the story of Dr....
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...
