Currently available for auction by Propstore Ltd, a distinguished company specializing in the sale of entertainment memorabilia with operations in both the United Kingdom and the United States, is an original Phantom Serial Poster dating from 1943.

The Phantom Serial was released by Columbia Pictures in USA on the 24th of December 1943. The Serial was filmed in black and white with a total running time of 299 minutes, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow and directed by Reeves Eason. The Phantom is played by Tom Tyler, with Diana Palmer played by Jeanne Bates (more information can be found HERE).

The Phantom serial was presented in theaters across 15 distinct chapters, each accompanied by a unique poster designed to promote these episodes. The poster provided by Propstore Ltd features Chapter 10 of the Phantom Serial, entitled ‘The Chamber of Death’, which was originally produced by the Morgan Lithograph Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in 1943 (more information can be found HERE).

The Phantom Serial posters were produced in full color, each measuring 27” x 41”, with a total of 15 posters created—one for each Serial Chapter. Each of the 15 posters consistently features an illustration of the Phantom, Diana, and Devil, while incorporating an internal still image from the Serial, along with the respective Chapter title and Chapter number, which vary on each poster. The color scheme of the Serial still alternates between green and blue.

The condition of the poster (seen on the left), as described by Propstore Ltd, is as follows:

Western star Tom Tyler stars as “The Phantom” on this one sheet from Chapter 10, which is folded and shows fold wear with crimping and very light separation, two upper border edge tears stabilized with brown paper tape on the back, and wear along the edge of the lower left panel. A piece of brown paper tape was affixed horizontally to the back of the poster on the lower right panel for no apparent reason.

The posters were produced on inexpensive, low-quality paper, intended for a single display before being disposed of by theater owners. The posters were purchased by the theaters at a cost of 15 cents from Columbia Pictures, with the theater exhibiting them on presentation boards secured with pins at each corner. Columbia Pictures dispatched the posters to theaters folded within an envelope.

The auction for the Phantom Serial Poster by Propstore Ltd can be found HERE.

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