SUPERMAN in THE MUMMY STRIKES - "My Mummy Done Told Me" (1943)

Okay, it's Mummies, Mummies, Mummies on this Weird Wednesday in The Dungeon!

So get ready for "The Mummy Strikes."

The title was liked well enough that DC brought out this comic in 1987 called "The Mummy Strikes!"

"The Mummy Strikes" was made in 1943, and is only a little over eight minutes long, and I'm sure you can find it some place on the internet to watch for free if you so desire!

I saw this, and all I could think of was Hurricane Dorian!

It would probably be a good time to donate to the Red Cross!

Any cartoon that starts off like this is almost guaranteed to be a laugh fest!

There's a short story here, but mostly this is about imagery!

If Mothers are sometimes call Mummy, shouldn't Dads be called Dummy?

Clark Kent pushes the release, and then this thing fires a power ball and charges up the five Mummies protecting the tomb of their boy King!

This is the first Mummy to snap out of it, and he seems pretty irritated by the whole scene!

 

 He snaps his bandages off, and starts taking it out on Clark Kent!

Superman shows up, and there's a bit of a tussle. There was a lot of bravado, but the Mummies are no match for the Man Of Steel, and he disposes of them very quickly!

Lois Lane gets scared, and actually injures her arms to the point where she can't go back to The Daily Planet and write the article, so Clark Kent gets the scoop!

As far as more Mummy action in the comics, for a little over a hundred bucks, you can get a copy of this issue of "Action Comics" from 1967, and it's Mummy story called "The Face Of Fear."

This 1965 Superboy Comic #123 has a story in it called "The Curse Of The Superman Mummy!"

I'm thinking in 1963, that they might have just gone a little too far with Batman and Robin as the "Mummy Crime-Fighters!"
With all this Mummy Madness, I'm surprised there's not a story about a Mummy baseball player called "The Mummy Strikes Out!"
I'll be back on Saturday with more useless and monotonous Mummy information, so try and stay out of trouble until then!

THE MUMMY / Karloff The Uncanny... In His Most Startling Role! - 1932

Looks like it's Mummy Fever, here, at The Dungeon! In today's classic Universal tale, in 1921, a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian Prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life! One dark night, a member of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, and then goes insane, realizing that he has brought Im-Ho-Tep back to life. Ten years later, disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy attempts to reunite with his lost love, an ancient princess who has been reincarnated into a beautiful young woman.

It stars Boris (TARGETS) Karloff, Zita (RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD - 1986!) Johann, David (THE BLACK CAT) Manners, Arthur (THE MAN WITH TWO FACES) Byron, Edward (DRACULA) Van Sloan and Bramwell (THE MONKEY'S PAW) Fletcher.

So, in 1921, a British expedition team uncover the mummy of ancient Egyptian Prince Im-Ho-Tep and a chest containing Scroll of Thoth. After knucklehead reads the scroll, well, he unwittingly brings the mummy back to life! Of course, he goes mad after he realizes what he has done... When I saw this in the late fifties on TV, this is the part I remember most.

Then, in 1932, Imhotep mysteriously shows up in England with a tip as to where a lost tomb is located, so, it's back to Egypt...

After a treasure of artifacts is found, the pieces are brought back to England and are added to the museum's displays. Then, Imhotep seeks out Helen Grosvenor who he claims is his lover from the past. In a mystical pool, he shows her the events leading him to be reborn.

What happens is not pretty, being buried alive and all.

Here's a very cool shot of the evil Imhotep!

He wants to kill Helen and then revive her by reading the scroll out loud, making her immortal.

He's ready to commit the act when something seems amiss, so, he stops.

Helen pleads to the Egyptian Goddess Mut to save herself from the out of control Imhotep...

The statue comes to life and shoots a bolt of light from her talisman...

The scroll starts burning, and, Imhotep starts to deteriorate in front of our eyes.

Helen's saved by her beau just as...

The scroll burns up and Imhotep becomes just another skeleton, bringing our tale to an end. Join us again on Wednesday when Eegah!! will have another wild 'n' weird post for us!

BATMAN - "I'll Be A Mummy's Uncle" (1968)

This Saturday Night Special is Season 02, Episode 23 of everybody's favorite campy superhero from the 60's, "Batman!"

I've gotten off on some krazy 'Mummy' side road, and I'm not quite sure where it's gonna end!

I was going to watch the "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" Mummy episode as suggested by our good friend, Mr. KD, but then he got me going on this 'Yvonne' trip, and then it went another whole direction!

If that doesn't make sense, I hope it will by the time we get to The End!

Sock it to me one more time!

I probably said it before, but when I was a senior in high school, I had to take a speech class, and one of the things that I and a couple other guys decided to do was write a "Batman" episode, and then we had to do a dramatic reading in the auditorium. 

It was ridiculous, of course!

So this all started by comparing dark haired beautiful women named Yvonne. First it was "The Mummy" and Yvonne Furneaux, getting mixed up with Yvonne Romain (who was never in a Mummy movie), and then KD brought up Yvonne Craig who was in this "Batman" episode called "I'll Be A Mummy's Uncle," but it turned out to be a trick, because there is no Mummy in this show, only in the title, but I watched it anyway!

 So here she is, looking beautiful as ever, Yvonne Craig!!
But that's just the beginning!

As fascinating as Yvonne Craig's life was, as I was reading about the other character's in this show, it got even more interesting!

If this shot doesn't send fear into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere, I don't know what would!

Yvonne Craig's first husband for two years was a goofy lookin' goober named Jimmy Boyd. Yep, the same Jimmy Boyd who sang the classic yuletide hit "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," that sold two million copies in ten weeks back in 1952!  They must have been a cute couple!

Jimmy was also an actor and was also in a "Batman" episode called "Louie, The Lilac," as a character named Dogwood! (Go Figure!)

Wow! Victor Buono as King Tut, and Comedian Henny Youngman as Manny The Mesopotamian in a quick scene together, how cool is that?

But here's where this story really begins! The beautiful young lady in the role of Florence Of Arabia is Victoria Vetri, who sometimes, like in this case, used the name Angela Dorian.

Victoria was in the quasi-classics "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth," and "Invasion Of The Bee Girls," but she got her start as Playmate of the Month as Angela Dorian in September of 1967.

The following year Victoria was named Playmate of the Year!
Victoria was also a close friend of Sharon Tate, and was supposed to come over the night of the Manson killings, but didn't make it. Escaping that scene, her life still managed to go to Hell!

So, what happened?

In 2010, Victoria got in an argument with her husband, and pulled out a gun, and shot him in the chest. He didn't die, but in she was sentenced to nine years in prison for attempted voluntary manslaughter in 2011. She was finally released last year!

 For more information on this amazing gal,

Here's a link to her web site!
Come back on Wednesday for more Mummy Madness!