'The Phantom Creeps' was Universal's 44th sound-era serial (between 'The Oregon Trail' and 'The Green Hornet') and was re-issued to theaters in 1949 by Commonwealth Pictures Corporation, a distribution set-up handling primarily Universal re-issues. Commonwealth had no hand at all in the production of this serial (as incorrectly shown on site) as they were a distribution company only. Some sources mistakenly identify them as the serial producer because all of the 1949 re-issue prints (and the 16mm prints sold to television circa 1952) show 'Commonwealth Pictures Corp. Presents' above the title.There is a whole lot of difference between 'presenting' and 'producing', a fact that some sources appear to not know or don't care. The serial is of interest to some collectors as it re-unites Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan from 1931's 'Dracula', and the crater-discovery of the meteorite fragment by Zorka in the serial is stock footage from Universal's 1936 'The Invisible Ray.' The stock ...