![]() From the short bio, Scare Glow could be Skeletor’s ghost, or he could be just a ghost who happens to have a skull face like Skeletor. Unfortunately I don’t think this totally clears up the issue. Scare Glow is invisible during the daylight, but glows at night. Skeletor conjured up this spirit in his own image to frighten travelers on the pathways of Eternia. The 1987 Mattel Style Guide says this about Scare Glow: Given that Scare Glow’s tag line calls him the “Evil Ghost of Skeletor”, there has been debate among fans for years about whether or not Scare Glow is actually the ghost of Skeletor, or merely a ghost who serves Skeletor. The scene was illustrated by Errol McCarthy, who also created an illustration for the 1987 Style Guide: Image source: KMKA Characterization & Stories The back of the card features a somewhat comical scene of Scare Glow scaring the orange pants off of Snout Spout. Like many other 1987 figures, Scare Glow came with some great artwork on the front of the card, illustrated by Bruce Timm: Image source: Jukka Issakainen Scare Glow’s cross sell art, like most cross sell artwork after the 1983, is a pretty accurate representation of the figure: Image source: Axel Giménez The white version was principally sold outside of the US and Canada. Scareglow’s weapon came in two flavors – bright green and glow-in-the-dark white. The figure was designed by David Wolfram. He was given an all-new head and a new cloth cape. The poleaxe (referred to on the packaging as a “scythe of doom”, and in the style guide as a “spirit staff”) is reused from the Castle Grayskull weapons rack. Most versions reuse the legs from Dragon Blaster Skeletor (with slightly enlarged feet compared to the original Skeletor), but the Spanish version reused the original Skeletor legs. There seemed to be two categories of figures released in 1987 – figures that were made from newly sculpted parts (Mosquitor, Sorceress, Blast Attak) and figures that mostly reused existing parts, with only a new head and perhaps a new weapon (Ninjor, King Randor, Clamp Champ). Scareglow was released toward the end of the Masters of the Universe toyline.
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