WASHINGTON —

Two-thirds of Americans say they plan to hand out candy this Halloween, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics.

Halloween participants will spend a record-breaking $3.9 billion on candy this year, up $400 million from last year, the survey found. Advertisement

So are Halloween celebrators buying more candy, or have goodies gotten pricier over the decades? The Get the Facts Data Team analyzed the prices of three classic Halloween candies trick-or-treaters would have found in their bags through the decades using newspaper archives.

Click on the candy items below to see how the prices have changed throughout the years.

How did we compare candy prices?

The archival search was limited to the month of October, and

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