The upcoming PS5 version of Insomniac Games' Spider-Man will have a plethora of Spider-Man costumes (although not the Ben Cooper costume). filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991, and was eventually bought out by a competitor, Rubie's Costume, in 1992.

'You don't know if the Ben Cooper heirs are going to come out of the woodwork and sue or something.'īen Cooper Inc. 'No one is going to talk about this, because there are billions of dollars at stake,' Cimino theorizes. Ben Cooper 1973 Fred Flintstone TV-Comic Character Costume & Mask t4270 35.16 39.95 + 21.20 shipping Vintage Ben Cooper The Flintstones Fred Flintstone Halloween Mask Hanna Barbera 49.99 + 6.75 shipping Vintage 1966 Ben Cooper Fred Flintstone Halloween Mask Hanna-Barbera 39.99 + 7. Marvel did not respond to the New York Post's request for comment. Some clippings, etc., are not rational proof of anything but some clippings, etc.' 'So why would Ben Cooper, a company that was already producing a Spider Man costume, be interested in licensing Marvel's Spider-Man long before the comic character achieved mainstream popularity?' asks the Post.Ĭimino reached out to Ditko about the similarities, with the reclusive artist replying by letter, 'The burden of proof is on the person who makes the assertion, claim, charge.

Making the case stranger, in 1963 Ben Cooper manufactured the first Marvel licensed product ever - you guessed it, an official Marvel Spider-Man costume, just a year after the character was created and a year before any other known Marvel licensed merchandise for the character. 1968 Woolworth's ad (Image credit: Woolworth's)

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