Well, we’re just one day away from the big show, the 10th Halloween where I’ve been sharing creepy, spooky 80s era fun here at Branded in the 80s. If there’s one thing I’m really grateful for when it comes to running this site it’s that it’s forced me to pay more attention to the little things that surround my favorite holiday. Looking back, the 10 years that preceded Branded I feel like that era is just a blur where the Halloween-y celebrations were minimal at best and I wonder about how many cool things slipped by my radar during that time. Ah well, maybe I’ll find out over the next 10 years when the folks start really waxing nostalgic over the late 90s and early 2000s. I assume I’ll be a regular reader of the Branded in the Millennium website whenever someone starts that ;)
Now onto the stickers for today. First up is this rather creepy sheet of stickers from Hallmark released back in 1982. Even though the illustrations are on the cute and cuddly side, if you pay attention you’ll see that these stickers are a tad more intense than the fare that I’ve been sharing so far during the Countdown. Take that vampire scarecrow for instance. Instead of just posing with a cute black cat it looks like he’s about to attack it! Or what about that spider that’s sizing up that bee that it’s about to devour? Or those seriously frightened jack-o-lanterns, or that freaky ass tree monster!
Alright, let’s bring the intensity down a notch with this sheet of stickers released by Paper Magic back around 1983-84. The stand-outs for me on this sheet are the anthropomorphic potions in the witch’s cauldron (which are awesome in a scrubbing bubbles sort of way) and that ghostly duo that look like they’re one werewolf drummer away from an awesome band…
Next up today are a couple of packs of Window Weirdos stickers released by the Sticker Store around 1980 or so. I love these because they’re so sketchy, and the whole idea of peeking into the windows of a creepy house to see all the weird things living inside is genius!
Last up today on this eve before Halloween is this small sheet of stickers that I haven’t been able to identify in terms of exact year or manufacturer. I will say that I love the aesthetic and if I had to pinpoint it I’d guess these were released sometime between 1985-1987. Also, Cowboy pumpkins for the win…
Come back tomorrow for my final day of the 2015 Peel Here & Scream Countdown to Halloween!
