COLLEGEVILLE COLLECTION

[Hepcat]

Don't care for the CREATURE PEOPLE one, but I'll take the other, as well as the Collegeville CFTBL costume.

Ahhhhh, this one from 1980:

[Mike Scott]

Ahhhhh, this one from 1980:

Got one. Need to frame the costume.

[Hepcat]

Here's a pic of a Collegeville Herman Halloween costume:

And here's the mask anyway of his longtime adversary Katnip:



Herman and Katnip starred in many cartoons but were rarely the cover features of any Harvey comic mags. Here are a couple from my collection though:

[Hepcat]

Here's a Collegeville costume from the 1960's merely labelled "Monster" on the box albeit it closely resembles the Phantom of the Opera:

[Hepcat]

Collegeville's gaudy to the max Bucky O'Hare costume from 1992!



So cool!

[Hepcat]

The Collegeville Buzzy the Crow costume was quite nice:

Hmmmmm. It seems that the very cool Retrocrush site is no more. I shrewdly saved the picture of the Buzzy costume though!



And here are a couple of pictures of Buzzy for comparison's sake:

[Hepcat]

Despite no movie appearances, the Shock Monster still occupies a very special place within the hearts of monster kids everywhere. It was magazine and comic ads for a Shock Monster mask back in the 1960's that made the Shock Monster's handsome visage among the most iconic in all of monsterdom:



Here are some great pictures of the Collegeville Shock Monster costume:











NOTE: Whoops! I guess the "Collegeville" costume was just a fantasy creation.

[darkmonkeygod]

Here are some great pictures of the Collegeville Shock Monster costume:

Hep, you've reposted this at least a couple of times over the years. Are you unaware that this is a fantasty creation and that there is no mass produced Shock Monster children's Halloween costume?

Ben Cooper copied the Topstone design to a degree for their 1966 young adult Phantom of the Opera and the youth size Blackbeard the Monster, but to my knowledge, that's as close as any mass manufaturer ever came.

[Hepcat]

Hep, you've reposted this at least a couple of times over the years. Are you unaware that this is a fantasty creation and that there is no mass produced Shock Monster children's Halloween costume?

A fantasy creation?!!! Box and all? Clearly so well done then that I was completely fooled.

But if you saw my previous post in the Vintage Toys forum back in May 2018, why did you not point my mistake out to me then? I do put quite a bit of effort into gathering up information for my posts but I'm not infallible. Sometimes I mess up the facts. So please tell me when you see that I've gotten the facts wrong before the misinformation is spread by myself or others.

[Hepcat]

Sadly a lot of the pictures posted earlier in this thread (including those by Sandman78) have now disappeared.





I had the foresight to save some of the images that were posted, however! Here then are some shots from Sandman78's Collegeville Halloween costume collection:

Pictures from Sandman78's Halloween costume collection can still be viewed here:

Vintage Collectible Halloween Costumes - Halloween Forum

[Hepcat]

I had a tiger costume that came from Woolworth's sometime around 1959, 1960 or 1961. I remember wearing to school for a Halloween party and again in our class play but don't remember the year or if it came with a mask. It might've been Collegeville or Ben Cooper or some other manufacturer ..

I am fuzzy about the details of the costume and even the year that it was purchased .. I do remember that my one line in the class play was "No hunting in the nursery at night?"

Maybe this one perhaps:

Thanks Sandman, I think that you nailed it .. 

I believe that this was the costume whose picture has disappeared that Sandman posted for Flower's consideration:



Collegeville kept on repackaging and reissuing it for years if not decades.

[Spinal Remains]

really cool pics, i will post my COLLEGEVILLE collection soon 

[Spinal Remains]

that shock monster would of been awesome if it was real, heres one that comes close, its a Collegeville Spooky Monster :


i bid on it & lost one of the coolest costumes iv ever seen

[Hepcat]

Interesting! I've never seen that one before. Judging by the Flasher Light feature and the box, I'd say it's circa 1990.

[marsattacks666]

that shock monster would of been awesome if it was real, heres one that comes close, its a Collegeville Spooky Monster :


i bid on it & lost one of the coolest costumes iv ever seen

This costume reminds me of an amalgamation of the Incredible Melting Man and Emil from Robo Cop.