I just saw the cover of the Steve Miller Band’s The Joker again and I was reminded of the mask being worn in the photograph. I had that mask, and I think I had the costume that went with it. But I never really knew what it was, sort of assumed it was kind of an off-brand Spider-Man type guy. Does anyone have any more information about it?
I’m getting a “File not found” error when I click the link.
Beats me.
Concur. In fact that’s the first time I’ve noticed that it’s a mask and not facepaint. I always took it to be a parody of Kiss.
Found this: a Collegeville Costumes catalog from 1974. Check out the bottom right.
Photo of one here. Buy your own on E-Bay! 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collegeville-Costum-Mask-3-Spider-Skeleton-and-Lion-/270808400757
Good work, pravnik!
Hey, thanks! So it was just a generic “The Spider.” I notice the caped “The Bat,” so it seems pretty clear that they were making cheapo versions of proprietary characters.
I wonder if Miller would have sold as many albums if he’d worn the tiger mask.
I had it considerably before Kiss became big.
It looks like a take off on a Mexican wrestling mask.
I should have said that I knew the album came out before Kiss was well-known, but that in my mind they were more-or-less contemporaneous because pretty much all early 70s music happened at the same time, since I didn’t really start sorting out individual artists and albums and whatnot until I was around 8 or so. The only group whose timeline I’ve never been confused by is the Pink Floyd, who I didn’t get into until high school.
To be more precise, I never had the Steve Miller album. I had the mask.
That mask is Flame Retarded.
What I want to know is, how did you try to link the Steve Miller Band and end up linking to [unintended link]?
Presumably he had the other link copied into his clipboard, and just didn’t realize he’d forgotten to copy the new link before pasting.
Yes, that’s exactly what happened.
I saw someone quite well-known on the SDMB (who shall remain nameless) do that with a porn link once.
SDMB members viewing pornography? I am shocked! Shocked, sir!