My Rating
“Power Times Four!”
Trapped for two millennia under the burning sands of the Sahara desert, N’kantu, Chieftain of the Swarilis tribe, awakens in the modern city of Cairo. After a tense battle with the Archeologist Doctor Skarab and a small force of Egyptian soldiers, the forgotten hero is defeated but will rise once again in the West. The following year, inside the Egyptology wing of New York City’s Natural History Museum, N’kantu would rise to the remnants of his past as a slave to the Egyptian Pharaoh Aram-Set.
Enraged by what he saw, the Living Mummy began to rampage through the museum buildings and continued out onto the streets of Manhattan. There N’kantu will face Doctor Skarab for a second time as he is pushed back into a dark alleyway by the NYPD. Then, in a flash of spectral light, the great Chieftain disappears, leaving both academics and law enforcement baffled as to his whereabouts.
The tortured soul of N’kantu had seen many things, but nothing could prepare him for what would happen next. Strange magic even more powerful than that wielded by the Egyptian sorcerer Nephrus had pulled the Living Mummy into another dimension. Here N’kantu would face his greatest adversaries of all time, the four godlike beings calling themselves the Elementals.
Has the Living Mummy been confined to an alternate reality or the underworld of Neter-khertet? Who controls the elemental constructs that attack N’kantu with no remorse? Will the great Chieftain of the Swarilis bend his knee to those who wish to subjugate the people of Earth?
“The Little Gypsy Tea Room”
The burglar pointed a loaded 38 towards the old Gypsy woman and demanded that she hide him from the approaching police officers. Bruno had just escaped the pinch, but the night was far from being over. If he could just find a concealed space inside the Tea Room, he would be home free. That, of course, is if the fortune-teller was willing to play ball.
Reviewer Notes
Damn, will N’kantu the Living Mummy ever catch a break? Writer Tony Isabella and artist Val Mayerik delivered a kickass brawl between our hero and a gaggle of new monster types. Four godlike supervillains, who claim to be older than Atlantis, debut in this issue as well. I’ve never heard of them before but they certainly give off Mutant and Inhuman vibes. I guess I will find out more in the next Issue of Supernatural Thrillers Volume One.
The artwork is the main draw for this comic book, and even though this title is a basic monster of the week style publication, Val Mayerik knocks it out of the park with his pencil work. Some classic Steve Ditko art also makes an appearance with a reprint story written by Stan Lee himself. It doesn’t get any campier than that, folks. I give this ancient relic from 1974 a four out of five star rating.
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