Collegeville Mask-o-rama

October 10, 2017 By Mantooth In Uncategorized 5 Comments

I honestly don’t ever remember seeing a display like this as a kid and I’d like to think I’d remember it.

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Mantooth

AKA Brian Heiler author of "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" and co-editor of "Toy-Ventures Magazine". Co-Host of the "Pod Stallions" podcast. Host of the Brick Mantooth Youtube channel, painter, designer, writer, mental health advocate, toy collector, Mego, and Mego Knock-Off enthusiast. I have large feet, ADHD and I live in Canada. Talk toys, not others.

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Dantheman on October 10, 2017

I remember seeing Halloween masks like the above at a local Ben Franklin dime store around Halloweentime when I was a kid, but I thought why they's sell those kind of masks without the vinyl smock costume, as it seemed pointless, but now I realize they were to make your own, or whatnot.

No, I remember it they were on displays like in the picture. Alothugh, I gotta say, it looks like they were making Radioactive Man (Bart Simpson's favorite superhero from THe Simpsons) as a mask even before The Simpsons was made.

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Caffeinated Joe on October 11, 2017

I don't think I ever saw masks displayed like this, either. Would have been quite cool though!

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Alphacentaurian on October 11, 2017

That is a genuine Solar: Man of the Atom mask! (as seen in Gold Key comics!)

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Anonymous on October 11, 2017

Alphacentaurian is right, amazing that was made, really cool looking too!

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Swank Cat on October 11, 2017

Spot on with the Ben Franklin comment. Growing up in northern NJ, the Ben Franklin stores were the only ones I remember that had these point of purchase mask only displays. Bought a Ben Cooper Spock one year to wear with my Donmoor Trek shirt.

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