Living Mummy Question

[Red Oak Kid]

Does anyone here remember reading the Living Mummy series in Supernatural Thrillers back in the 70s?

I never read these, but I notice that Tony Isabella and Val Mayerik had a nice little run on this title. By "nice" I mean a consistent run on several issues which was kind of unusual back then at Marvel when deadlines were being missed on a regular basis and artists played musical chairs with their assignments.

Any memories out there on this series?
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[dan bailey]

memories? not many ... except that i know i bought & read 'em all (as i did all of marvel's horror titles, whose proliferation was what enticed me back into comics at age 13 or so after i'd dropped 'em all like hot potatoes a couple of years earlier) & that i liked mayerik's art a lot.

come to think of it, this is a run i wouldn't mind going back & picking up ...

[tk421atpost]

Is there enough Living Mummy material around to fill an Essential volume?

[Cei-U!]

The Steve Gerber/Rich Buckler "pilot" in Supernatural Thrillers #5 was okay. I didn't care for the ongoing, partially due to my indifference to the character, partially to my not being big on either Isabella or Mayerik. But I haven't read these books in 30 years so I might have an entirely different attitude toward them now.

Cei-U!
I summon the dim memories!

[Shellhead]

I bought a few issues and wish I had bought more. There were some great artwork by Val Mayerik, interesting villains, and a bizarre cosmic finale involving converging realities. I don't think there were enough issues to fill an Essentials volume, but maybe if they included the Ms. Marvel issues that followed up with the basic storyline and some of the same villains a few years later.

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Actually, I guess they would need to do an Essential Supernatural Thrillers plus those two Ms. Marvel issues. That would be a total of 17 comics, still a little thin for an Essentials. Maybe that's why we haven't seen Essential Champions yet, only 17 issues plus maybe that two-parter in Spectacular Spider-man that included Angel, Iceman, and Swarm.

[The Wayner]

The only thing I truly remember about the Living Mummy is that I picked up a run of the book for a dime outta a flea market box. This was the late 70s, and strangely I remember the paid price, but none of the stories! :rolleyes:

[protege]

Is there enough Living Mummy material around to fill an Essential volume?
Oh, I'm sure he's left a few STRIPS around the MU- That was brilliant, if i do say so myself.

[Slam_Bradley]

This is one of those books I always saw in cheap boxes but never got around to buying. No opinions, but I'd be interested in reading it.

[MWGallaher]

I'm a big fan of the short-run 70's Marvels, but The Living Mummy was never one of the highlights, to me. (It was a lot better than Thongor, though.) I pulled out the series a few years ago, and found it difficult to slog through, and I'm generally quite appreciative of Tony Isabella's work, as well as Val Mayerik's.

[C.O. Jones]

I'd bought #9 off the racks back in the day and I liked it. Isabella's writing and Mayerik's (never saw anything else by him) art were very nice. I didn't think it would have any ties to the regular MU but, lo and behold, the Living Pharaoh was the villain in the issue. Later on I was able to track down the X-Men issues he'd appeared in.

It was cool finding out the mummy was black since I had yet to read a Black Panther, Luke Cage or Black Goliath story.

Thinking back on it, why would N'Kantu have been given a burial befitting a dignitary if he was a slave? Did his captors bury him alive as punishment for a slave revolt, I can't remember?


"Abdol...the scarab." :eek:

[Cei-U!]

Thinking back on it, why would N'Kantu have been given a burial befitting a dignitary if he was a slave? Did his captors bury him alive as punishment for a slave revolt, I can't remember?

He was the king and/or tribal chieftain whose people were enslaned en masse by the Egyptians, if memory serves.

Cei-U!
I summon the three decade memory gap!