Scooby-Doo...Where Are You! - Gold Key - Issue 7
Released August 1971
Episode Premiere
Scooby-Doo and a Mummy Too - November 29, 1969
Stories
Somebody's Mummy
This story is an adaptation of the first season episode Scooby-Doo and a Mummy Too. The gang goes to the university to help Profesor Art T Fax with his replication of Anka's Tomb. They leave the museum to get sandwiches and burgers from Sleepy Joe's. When they return, they find the professor petrified and the mummy of Anka missing. They investigate and soon find the mummy dogging their every move in pursuit of a coin.
The story plays out similarly to the cartoon until they find the professor. In the cartoon, Shaggy leaves him tied up in the shed. A decision which prompted me to say aloud, "What is wrong with you Shaggy?" and then sent me down a rabbit's hole of speculation of why the writers made that choice. In the comic, the professor plays a role in concluding the mystery. They all return to his office to search for the coin. Shaggy lets him know that he still has the coin just as the mummy breaks out of a barricaded closet. The mummy attacks them with a sword. Scooby grabs a mouthful of bandages and unwinds the mummy.
The Professor also solves the mystery of the coin. He realizes the figure was coin operated and reveals the giant diamond. The only other character in the episode is revealed to be the mummy.
This is one of the issues that improves on the original episode.
Rogue's Gallery
The Mummy of Anka
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