Full title: “The Mummy, or All Dressed Up and No Place to Live; or Gosh, You Don’t Look 2000 Years Old”

Publisher: Mayfair Publications, Inc.

Editor: Tony Tallarico

Issues: 7 (March 1975 – May 1976, bimonthly)

Originally entitled Monster World but changed its name with #3, probably due to complaints from Warren Publishing, who had their own 10 issue-long Monster World magazine from November 1964 to September 1966. (These were later retroactively renamed as #70–79 of Famous Monsters of Filmland.)

I must have read this story 100 times. Nothing, not a single panel in the story, was funny. But the concept—waking up 2000 years later only to be evicted and deprecated, is infinitely interesting. And this is not just any “Rip Van Winkle” imitator; this is The Mummy, one of the sacred gods that are the Universal Monsters.

Here’s the story: