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Anne Rice’s The Mummy, or Ramses of the Damned                               Comics Lot
Writer: Faye Perozich
Artists: Mark Menendez, Melissa Martin & Richard Pace
Editors: Mark Ellis & Paul Davis
Cover by: Mark Menendez

This series — adapted, of course, from Anne Rice’s popular novel of the same title—finds Ramses alive and well and living in twentieth-century Egypt because of the immortality-inducing elixir he concocted in ancient times. A small portion of the elixir also restores life to the mummy of an unnamed woman in a museum, and Ramses discovers her to be his long-lost love, Cleopatra. Problems arise when it becomes obvious that the animated corpse of his former lover has no soul and that the smidgen of the elixir that is in her system causes her to go on a sex-driven killing spree.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned 1989 Novel Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
Henry murders his uncle Lawrence with a poison found in the mummy’s tomb. When Henry tries to poison Julie in the same manner, Ramses comes to life and attempts to kill Henry, but succeeds only in scaring him away. After his awakening, Julie and Ramses are instantly attracted to each other. Ramses quickly adopts a pseudonym, “Reginald Ramsey”, and claims to be an Egyptologist to throw off the accusation made by the frightened Henry that a “bloody mummy” rose from the crypt to harm him. With superhuman intelligence and the ability to learn quickly, Ramses quickly learns the English language and, with the help of an eager Julie, is given a tour of modern London and new technology that had arisen during the past two thousand years. While Henry’s accusations are passed off as the rantings of a drunkard, the elderly and ailing Elliott Savarell suspects that it may be the truth. He trails Ramses and comes to believe that he is who Henry claims him to be.

During Ramses’s reign as pharaoh, he had learned from a Hittite priestess the formula for an elixir that grants eternal life. The potion not only made him immortal, but also allows his body to regenerate from damage that would kill a normal human, such as multiple bullet wounds. He requires neither food nor drink nor sleep, and only the sun’s rays to maintain his life. However, he still craves food and certain other physical pleasures, like sex, smoking, and alcohol.

Ramses nurses a deep secret. Prior to the Roman conquest of Egypt, he had served as an immortal advisor to its kings and queens, and the last person to awake him for consultation had been Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt. Although he served as Cleopatra’s counsel (and encouraged her to romance Julius Caesar in a bid to keep the country independent), he had also fallen in love with her, and had revealed to her the secrets of the elixir. Having fallen in love with Mark Antony in defiance of Ramses’s advice, Cleopatra refuses the elixir and chooses suicide upon Antony’s death. In his depression, Ramses had given himself the name “Ramses the Damned”, and had Egyptian priests seal him away underground.

With Julie’s encouragement, Ramses begins to recover. While Henry is convinced that Ramses is an evil monster ready to kill the entire family, Elliott reads Lawrence’s notes and chases after Ramses to learn the secret of the elixir of immortality. Eventually, Ramses and Julie decide to visit Egypt one last time so that Ramses can say good-bye to his past. Although Ramses appears to be coming to terms with his past, upon visiting the Cairo Museum, he unexpectedly recognizes an unidentified mummy as being that of Cleopatra. Breaking into the museum later at night simply to see her, he impulsively pours some of the elixir onto the dead body. Cleopatra is revived, but by Ramses not pouring the entire vial of elixir on her, the restoration is incomplete; she is a half-formed monstrosity, awake and conscious yet with parts of her face, hands, and torso still gone. Her incomplete brain restoration leaves her not totally coherent; though Ramses later repairs her body with more of the potion, she appears to be insane and kills a number of people, including Henry. Cleopatra unexpectedly falls in love with Elliot’s son Alex though realizes a life with him cannot last because of his mortality and his innocence. Because Ramses would not give her long-ago love Mark Antony the elixir to save his life, Cleopatra holds a passionate hatred for him and seeks to even the score by killing his current love: Julie Stratford.

Cleopatra ultimately falters before killing Julie, realizing that the girl should not be punished for Ramses’s actions. She also comes to regret the other murders she has committed. In an attempt to escape Ramses, Cleopatra “dies” when her car is hit by a train and is consumed by a fiery explosion so hot that it “could kill even an immortal”. Ramses later gives the elixir to Julie after she attempts suicide in her grief for her loss of him, and he promises to stay with her for eternity. To thank him for his help in covering up all the unusual events, Ramses also gives the elixir to a dying Elliott, who drinks it after serious consideration of the consequences: dying miserably, or living eternally even when wishing for nothing but oblivion. Cleopatra has secretly survived the crash, and awakens under the care of a British doctor in Sudan. She vows to find Ramses again someday for revenge.

Comics lot contains: Anne Rice’s The Mummy (1990 – 1992) Issues #1-12.  Millennium Publications

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Millennium Publications
Publication Date: 1990 – 1992
Format per comic: FC, 36 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 are in Very Fine to Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Mummy and/or Anne Rice collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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