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Ben Cooper Alien Costume & Mask (1979)
- Year
- 1979 Source verified
- Manufacturer
- Ben Cooper, Inc. Source verified
About this item
Child's costume of the creature from Alien: a black vinyl smock with off-white biomechanical rib graphics and a matching plastic mask, sold in a porthole-window box. It was Ben Cooper's first costume from an R-rated film and drew complaints from parents.
Details
- Holiday
- Halloween
- Archive type
- Costume
- Product line
- Alien (20th Century Fox)
- Materials
- vinyl smock, molded plastic face mask with elastic strap
- Packaging
- porthole window box
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Sources & verification
Source Verified
- Ben Cooper (company) Encyclopedia Article Supports: C-3PO among Ben Cooper's Star Wars costumes (1977) View source
- Ben Cooper costumes: How the popular plastic outfits reinvented Halloween Other Supports: Ben Cooper Chewbacca costume pictured as a Star Wars-era example View source
- Inside The Box: 1979 Alien Costume Collector Reference Supports: Ben Cooper, 1979, porthole box; period press coverage Reference only: cited, never auto-verified. View source
- Ben Cooper Alien Costume (1979) Collector Reference Supports: Collector post on the 1979 Ben Cooper Alien costume Reference only: cited, never auto-verified. View source