"Mystery of the Wax Museum" was never reissued domestically, however, it was reissued in Franco's Spain in 1940. Over time it came to be considered a lost film. In 1936, Technicolor-Hollywood ceased servicing two-color printing and is said to have issued a "last call" to their customers for prints as the final imbibition rigs were converted for three-color; records show scattered print runs of some two-color subjects after that date. But the response of most studios was to junk the two-color negatives (which had been stored at Technicolor) of their now-obsolete films. A precious few negatives survived, including the Eddie Cantor musical "Whoopee!", which was taken in by Goldwyn in their vaults. Correspondence indicates that in 1940 Goldwyn wanted to make two-color prints for Spain, and Technicolor was still able to service them. Warner Bros. kept the negatives for their two-color cartoons but not their live-action product. By the late 1950s, when the Warner library was being sold in a package for television to Associated Artists Productions, "Mystery of the Wax Museum" was deemed lost. The title remained on the sales list, but the negative vaults held no preprint to service it.