McHales Navy, Don Post, Ben Cooper and Monster Masks

I found this old clip of McHales Navy on You Tube. It stars the great Ernest Borgnine.

Not one I know, what really grabbed me though where the old Don Post Monster Masks I oggled over as a kid at the back of Creepy and Eerie comics. All the classic Universals are here and wait for the last one a little later in the clip!

This is the colour advert that I remember on the 1960's.

Looking at these masks again and I realise that they are very similar to the cover art of Famous Monsters and Monster World, where they appeared as adverts. Here are a fearful few:

There was a TV movie made about Don Post masks in 2004 called Monsterama: History of Don Post Masks and presented by Elvira, the rather voluptuous Mistress of the Dark which I've yet to see. There's a few clips on You Tube like this:

I've never really collected masks. I had a few as a kid including a hard plastic wolfman and about 10 years ago I bought a hard plastic Dracula, which was rather neat. These plastic masks are more the type I had, which I assume Ben Cooper masks are like too - hard plastic with an elastic band for around the head. Does anyone know if Ben Cooper and Don Posts masks are equally as collectable now?

Don Post was known as the Godfather of Halloween and Ben Cooper the Halston of Halloween [I had to look up Halston] according to Wiki. Alas Ben Cooper filed for bankruptcy in 1991 and Don Post Studios sadly closed its doors in September 2012.

Do you have a favourite mask readers? Maybe one from Xmases past?