Superboy (1988)

Assigned to do the special make-up effects for the Superboy series was Rob Burman; for the recurring villain Bizarro, Burman sculpted a facial prosthetic angular and stone-like in design.

'Mutant' 'Special Effects', an episode about movie monsters coming to life, required multiple masks and prosthetics to be made; however, Burman found a way around creating an entirely new suit for the Ajax monster. The Ajax suit was a redressing of the monster suit Berman had previously made for 1989's Mutator. The Mutator suit was redressed with new paint, fur and eyes but otherwise same construction and face mechanisms.

Burman himself wore the Ajax suit in the episode, as the suit had originally been designed to fit only his body. According to this article on the Superboy Theater blog, this led to Burman finding out what it was like for suit performers to do fight scenes, 'During the fight with Superboy, I told Gerard that the animatronic head was held in place with a fiberglass helmet that sat right over my nose. I told him, "Please don't hit the head in the fight - it is very delicate and it could break - especially my nose." So, "Take one: Action!" Gerard comes out and the first punch lands square on the chin of the animatronic. Pain instantly shoots through my face, my eyes tear up and I can't see. I stop and hold up my hands waving "time out!" We reset to do it again. Take two "Bam!" right in my face again - so I wasn't so invincible.'

The other monsters of 'Special Effects' were more simple to realize. The villanous Phantom of the Opera pastiche Caliban was realized as a prosthetic makeup appliance.

Serving Caliban are a snake-man and a fly-man; the snake-man was a static mask.

The fly-man (no doubt a homage to The Fly) also was a static mask, worn with glove prosthetics as well.

'Neila and the Beast' had a Bigfoot-like alien realized as facial prosthetics and a hair suit.

Two werewolves were required for the episode 'Werewolf', a male and a female. The male werewolf was a latex mask and chest/back appliance, worn with accompanying arm and hand prosthetics.

The female werewolf was realized in a similar fashion, but was sculpted to be different in appearance around the face and chest, also with arm and hand prosthetics.

Note: All the behind the scenes images on here were taken from Rob Burman's Instagram account @robburmanslaboratory, which would you should absolutely give a look if you want to see more wonderful images of his work over the decades!