Original Kit Issued: 1963 - 1968

Re-Issued: 1969-1975, 1992, 1994, 1995

Fifth in the original line-up, this kit, like the iconic Dracula kit before it, creates a chilling mood by contrasting the elegance and drama of the Phantom's flourish against the spooky, and in this case very gruesome, "set" of the base.

This is the only kit that actually features two characters, even though we only see the pitiful prisoner's head and arms, it's enough to fully suggest a complete reality behind those bars.

Not having actually seen the film before I bought this kit as a kid, I imagined the Phantom's pose meant that he was belting out an operatic aria, delighting in the eerie echoes throughout the catacombs, his cadaverous captive the only audience. 

I still remember how his glowing shrieking face and grasping bony hands floating in the deep, dark corner of my bedroom. It really put the frights in me!