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Method

Four grades.

ESTABLISHED

Supported by a primary document, first-hand account, or strong agreement among direct sources.

REPORTED

Credible reporting exists, but the underlying documentation or direct testimony is incomplete.

DISPUTED

Direct sources materially conflict or the record cannot resolve the claim.

MYTH

The claim is contradicted by the best available evidence or unsupported by any located source.

Claims ledger

33 claims.

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#	Claim	Grade	Best sources
01	The Myers mask is a modified Don Post Studios Captain Kirk mask	ESTABLISHED	1, 2, 3, 4
02	Don Post’s Star Trek line dates to 1975 under a Paramount license	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
03	Paramount required Kirk and Spock in the line	REPORTED	1
04	Bill Malone sculpted the Kirk and Spock masks	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
05	The Kirk mask was built on a Shatner life cast or foam master owned by Don Post Studios	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
06	The life cast was taken during The Devil’s Rain	DISPUTED	1, 2
07	The life cast was taken during Star Trek	DISPUTED	1
08	Shatner sat for the Don Post mask	MYTH	No supporting source located
09	The Kirk mask sold poorly; the license lapsed; it was out of production before Halloween became popular	REPORTED	1
10	Wallace bought an Emmett Kelly clown mask and a Kirk mask on Hollywood Boulevard	ESTABLISHED	1, 2, 3
11	The shop was Bert Wheeler’s magic shop	REPORTED	1, 2
12	The Kirk mask cost $1.98	REPORTED	1
13	Wallace enlarged the eyeholes, removed sideburns, altered the hair, and painted the face white	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
14	The eyebrows were removed	REPORTED	1
15	Don Post Studios modified the mask for $150	DISPUTED	1, 2
16	The mask was turned inside out	MYTH	1, 2
17	The screenplay called for ‘the pale, neutral features of a man’	ESTABLISHED	1
18	Castle was the principal masked performer; Moran was unmasked; Wallace, Winburn, and Hill wore it for specific shots	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
19	Three masks were used: a hero and two stunt masks	REPORTED	1
20	The same hero mask was reused in Halloween II	ESTABLISHED	1
21	Don Post Studios supplied Kirk masks to Halloween II for credit	REPORTED	1
22	The screen-used mask survives with collector Mark Roberts	REPORTED	1
23	Don Post Studios was refused a Myers license in 1981	ESTABLISHED	1
24	Don Post’s 1986 The Mask was a Neil Surges sculpt from the Shatner foam master and was unlicensed	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
25	Don Post’s copyright was invalid; its suit was frivolous; fees were awarded	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
26	The first licensed Myers mask was Cinema Secrets’ 1999 product	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
27	Don Post Studios made the Halloween III masks	ESTABLISHED	1
28	Trick or Treat Studios reissued the 1975 Kirk as a CBS-licensed Justin Mabry sculpt in 2017	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
29	Shatner had publicly acknowledged the mask by early 2008	REPORTED	1
30	Shatner wore a Myers mask while trick-or-treating with his children	ESTABLISHED	1, 2
31	Shatner reacted: ‘Is that a joke? Are they kidding?’	ESTABLISHED	1
32	Shatner says he has no financial stake in the film	ESTABLISHED	1
33	The 2018 film mask was a new Nelson and Van Dyke sculpt	ESTABLISHED	1

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The Hollywood Reporter pages were paywalled; Carpenter’s 2015 quote is taken from Snopes’s reproduction.
X.com could not be loaded; tweet texts are as indexed by search, dates decoded from the tweet IDs.
YouTube refused requests (rate-limited): Wallace’s 2014 demonstration, the Conan O’Brien clip, the 2021 Jake’s Takes interview and a “trick-or-treating” clip were not viewed; each is cited through the articles that describe or embed it.
The Famous Monsters interview page loaded during research but returned a 404 on a later attempt; the IMDb News syndication is listed as an alternate.
Starr (2019), Leeder (2014) and Lambert (2014/2015) were not accessed directly; Google Books is blocked to the research tools.
The Halloween Series Wiki (Fandom) and CBR returned errors and were not used.

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