Curse Of The Hot Mummy

Atlas Comics, also known as Seaboard Periodicals, was created by former Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman, and they had an entire array of titles with everything from superheroes, monsters, and good girls. One such comic was Devilina, Atlas' take on Vampirella which acted as a black and white anthology of horror comics that only lasted for two issues. The Curse Of Nefertiri was a tale of an expedition gone horrible wrong, then again, most stories with mummies never go right. Written by Atlas regular Gabriel Levy and drawn by former Marvel artist Pablo Marcus, the story starts out with a pair of treasure hunters waiting outside some ruins in the Sahara they excavated. The impatient Harris is tired of waiting for the special x-ray team to scope out the mummy coffin that he and his partner Benson found, so in a fit of rage Harris kills Benson and proceeds to pop open the coffin of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiri. The story then delves into a flashback set 3000 years ago where Nefertiri is sulking over losing her husband after he died chasing after Moses and the other Hebrews. If that wasn't bad enough, she ends up getting infected with a plague, so a royal sorcerer mummifies her to be cured sometime in the future. Cut back to present day where the curvy but grody mummy queen rises from her coffin and infects the greedy Harris with the same plague of which he dies from leaving the door open waiting for the plague to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world. The Curse Of Nefertiri is one of the better examples of how tomb raiders should be more careful about what they dig up because they might be uncorking an ancient coronavirus.