Mummy

Context

This baddie was seen in a 1966 Peter Cannon… Thunderbolt! story by PAM. If you’re not familiar with this, reading our Peter Cannon… Thunderbolt! character profile will provide you with all the necessary context.

Background

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Powers and Abilities

The Mummy is superhumanly strong and tough. Thus, he could efficiently battle Thunderbolt himself. He was also driven by a demented drive toward power and crime.

Our game stats assume that he was vulnerable toward fire. That was not demonstrated but is typical of comic book mummies.

History

Professor Drummond, an Egyptologist, developed an odd theory about how some mummies were actually in a state of suspended animation. According to him, they could be revived if the techniques used by the ancient Egyptians to preserve servants for their deceased rulers were understood.

He became obsessive about this. Drummond built complex experimental reanimation equipment. He even secured governmental authorisations to proceed to tests if a suitable mummy was found.

When Drummond and three of his colleagues found an intact tomb in Egypt, his colleagues were overjoyed about the fame this remarkable discovery could bring. Drummond, on the other hand, was overjoyed since he finally had a suitable mummy.

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Wake up lil’ mummy

In his lab, Drummond did restart the heart of the mummy and kept it running. But the EEG was still a flatline. Drummond tried to restart the brain waves by pumping his own into the mummy’s brain.

A Weird Science Moment was the result. Drummond woke up in the body of the mummy, with a full access to its memories and consciousness… and for some reason, a hankering for power and revenge. this was in part because he remembered “his” life as a miserable slave in ancient Egypt, who eventually got mummified.

Using his great physical power, the Mummy launched a one-person crime wave. He kidnapped wealthy citizens for ransom, and his colleagues for revenge. He also intended to go back to Egypt and dig up the secret treasure caches of the Pharaohs he now knew about.

From the blue

As usual, Tabu persuaded Thunderbolt to investigate. Thunderbolt rescued the people captured by the Mummy before the villain could gas them. Then, after fighting Drummond’s pet tiger, engaged the Mummy in combat.

Although he nearly lost, Thunderbolt summoned his willpower. As a result, he knocked the Mummy off the roof they were fighting on. Meanwhile, Drummond’s lab was destroyed in a fire.

While the inert body of Drummond (now plunged in suspended animation much like the mummified slave had been) was found, the Mummy was not. What had happened thus remained incomprehensible for Thunderbolt.

Description

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Personality

Insane, on a power trip on very big on how he’s going to gain :

• Power and riches; to gain revenge for his life as an Egyptian slave.
• Revenge over those who did not believe in his theories; to gain revenge for his life as a mad archaeologist.

Quotes

“This time, the power is mine ! Soon, the slave that knew poverty will possess riches… and the professor that bore ridicule, will taste revenge ! Yes, ah ah ah… the world will bow before the power of the mummy !”

“Wha—? Thunderbolt ! No ! I will not be denied revenge and power…for, in exactly five seconds… the gas chamber will claim my first victims !”

“Come ahead then ! Let your fate prove to all others, the futility of challenging my powers !”

“I have no time to waste in idle pleasures ! There’s too much work to be done ! I must begin my experiments immediately… and prove my theory of suspended animation !”

By Sébastien Andrivet.

Source of Character: Thunderbolt #55 (1966).