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==Production==
Like most serials, ''The Phantom'' had a low budget. Most of the serial was filmed in the [[Hollywood]] hills, which doubled as the African jungle.<ref name=RetFan1>{{cite journal |last=Pasko |first=Martin |
For the serial, the Phantom's real name is Geoffrey Prescott. In the [[comic strip]], his real name had not yet been introduced.<ref name=RetFan1/> The Phantom's real name was eventually introduced into the comic strip as Kit Walker. The Phantom tells Singapore Smith to call him "Walker" when he covers his costume with a hat, dark glasses, and an overcoat so he can enter civilization unobtrusively.
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According to [[Jim Harmon]] and [[Donald F. Glut]]: "Unquestionably, The Phantom was one of Columbia's better serials...a task in casting, settings, and mood totally missing in such disasters as ''[[Batman (serial)|Batman]]'' from the same studio."<ref name=GMS /> In a 2018 retrospective, [[Martin Pasko]] contended that "''The Phantom'' has all the problems most serials - Columbia's in particular - did: an implausible script riddled with inane, unplayable dialogue; wretchedly wooden acting; and a budget that rendered ludicrous any attempt to stage believable, much less spectacular, action by today's standards."<ref name=RetFan1/>
Cline wrote that Tyler's characterization, in his last serial role, was more vivid than that in ''[[Adventures of Captain Marvel]]'' but slightly less memorable.<ref>{{cite book | last = Cline | first = William C. | title = In the Nick of Time | year = 1984 | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc. | isbn = 0-7864-0471-X | chapter = 5. A Cheer for the Champions (The Heroes and Heroines) | page = 83 }}</ref> He added that Tyler had an "almost uncanny" resemblance to the comic strip character.<ref>{{cite book | last = Cline | first = William C. | title = In the Nick of Time | year = 1984 | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc. | isbn = 0-7864-0471-X | chapter = 2. In Search of Ammunition | page = 26}}</ref> However, Pasko said that he "seems old beyond his years, and not at all the vigorous young man who could plausibly do what the script demands of him."<ref name=RetFan1/> Harmon and Glut described him as wooden in his speech and movements, "the Gary Cooper of B films".<ref name=GMS>{{cite book | last = Harmon | first = Jim |author2=
Phantom creator [[Lee Falk]] disliked the serial, commenting that "It looks like it was shot in a [[phone booth]]."<ref name=RetFan1/>
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