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Ben Cooper built its reputation on manufacturing Halloween costumes and novelties. Its dominance in the rubber toy market began in the late 1960's, when it released the Flying Fun Things. These crudely sculpted super-heroes were molded in a horizontal flying position and dangled from an elastic band. Ben Cooper built on the success of the Flying Fun Things by releasing a broad range of rubber figures over the next decade.
In 1973, Ben Cooper introduced its rubber monsters. It marketed them under different names and styles, the most distinctive being the "House Haunters." Characters included: Witch, Devil, Scarecrow, Black Cat, plus generic versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, and even Aurora's Forgotten Prisoner skeleton model.
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