Puzzles, anyone?

[Hepcat]

Creepella Gruesome custom by Ian McLean, on Flickr

I recently completed my Creepella Gruesome custom figure to accompany (on the tambourine!) her husband, Weirdly, and son, Goblin.

Oh wow! Fabulous job!

[YoungestMonsterKid]

Mummy Puzzle Close-Up (Jaymar 1963) by donald deveau, on Flickr

Hey, yeah! Is this The Phantom? Or just a ghastly looking dead guy? Or Zacherley?....
What's the consensus?

[Mike Scott]

Hey, yeah! Is this The Phantom?

Those puzzles snatched images from everywhere, so it was likely copied from a Phantom photo.

[Hepcat]

Or just a ghastly looking dead guy? Or Zacherley?

What's the consensus?

No consensus. I think the stiff looks a lot more like Zacherley than the Phantom. My bet though is on some anonymous ghastly dead guy.

[Monolith]

I think it looks the most like the Aurora Phantom model.

[YoungestMonsterKid]

Well, if it is Erik, I'm curious how the story goes. Are the Mummy and him enemies? What's the relationship with the skeleton in the robe? Did the Phantom try to betray Kharis and then pay for it with his life? So many possibilities.

[Hepcat]

I think it looks the most like the Aurora Phantom model.

Oh come on! The Phantom is very clearly green:



James Bama would not have painted him in the wrong colour!

[Monolith]

Oh come on! The Phantom is very clearly green:



James Bama would not have painted him in the wrong colour!

I think the puzzle art looks like the model kit itself, not the Bama box art.

[YoungestMonsterKid]

Yeah. The model, which, is equal parts Chaney and Cagney as opposed to the solely Cagney box art.

[Dr.Terror]

It's not the Phantom.   It's based on a weird b+w image from the Famous Monsters cards.

   

[Mike Scott]

It's not the Phantom.   It's based on a weird b+w image from the Famous Monsters cards.

Good eye! Well done, sir!

[Hepcat]

Yeah. The model, which, is equal parts Chaney and Cagney as opposed to the solely Cagney box art.

I'm not talking about any Hollywood actor though. I'm talking about the Phantom of the Opera from the sewers below New York City.

[YoungestMonsterKid]

It's not the Phantom.   It's based on a weird b+w image from the Famous Monsters cards.

Hey, I'm just glad the mystery is solved.
Now, do you have any idea where that photo is from? Was it just taken for the card?

[Mike Scott]

Now, do you have any idea where that photo is from? Was it just taken for the card?

A bunch of the cards in that set are from FM make-up contests and some fan drawings. I'm guessing none of those people ever got paid for using their photos for the card set. 

[BRICK]

Now, do you have any idea where that photo is from? Was it just taken for the card?

I believe that is actually Lenore's corpse from 1963's The Raven. The first thing I thought of was Roger Corman when I saw it!  It should have been posted in "Name That Monster Movie"!