before parents sweated for weeks to ensure their children’s Halloween costumes were screen accurate, there was Ben Cooper. He was a man, though for most of my childhood, that name was a brand ...

It was a Ben Cooper. Ben Cooper, the son of a restaurant owner who became a costume impresario, didn’t invent the Halloween costume. But he and his company awakened generations of kids to the ...

If you grew up anytime from the ’60s to the early ’90s, then you remember the old Ben Cooper Halloween costumes. This company produced several cheap, plastic costumes based on pop culture ...

Series 5 introduces all-new trick-or-treaters based on the licensed kids’ costumes produced by Ben Cooper, one of the largest Halloween costume manufacturers from the 1950s through the ‘80s.

They also became increasingly store-bought: By the 1960s, Ben Cooper, a manufacturing company that helped turn Halloween into a pop phenomenon, owned 70 to 80 percent of the Halloween costume ...

responsible for mass producing the very first licensed Halloween costumes that children in America ever had at their disposal. “Dressing Up Halloween: The Story of Ben Cooper, Inc” ...

Courtesy of Ben Cooper, Inc. Ah! The trusty costume-in-a-bag. The fail-safe last-minute resort. Enter any Halloween store today and you’ll see walls stocked with costumes in cellophane bags.