# Space Mummy. From Whence????
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 5, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095 "2003-05-05T00:52:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095/1 "2003-05-05T00:52:24Z")
[Here in “Sluggy Freelance”](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030429) a “Space Mummy” is introduced by a guest artist.
[On This Comic’s News Sidebar](http://www.scarygoround.com/) the guest artist (who is a very talent cartoonist, in my opinion) says this of the character’s origins–
> [@](#):
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> April 30th 2003
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> SPACE MUMMY NEWS
> There’s a question on everyone’s lips: WHO IS SPACE MUMMY? I can’t take credit. Spummy rose from the mind of R Stevens of Diesel Sweeties. He was presented complete. I merely spread the word.
After going through several hundred uncataloged pages of [Diesel Sweeties](http://www.dieselsweeties.com/index.php) I concluded I wasn’t going to locate his version of Space Mummy.
But I know I’ve seen a space mummy somewhere before! 😕
I _think_ it was in a cartoon, vintage 1950s or 70s.
But, what?
Speak to me of Space Mummies. What, where, when, why?
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### Author:  [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095/2 "2003-05-05T03:43:04Z")
A Google search on the term Space Mummy (Which you really could have done yourself, you know.) revealed [this](http://www.dynamicforces.com/botp/SRM2.html).
Perhaps that is what you were thinking of? Battle of the Planets was also known as G-Force if that’s any help.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095/3 "2003-05-05T13:05:54Z")
Thanks, but no.
There was an _earlier_ Space Mummy. 60’s?
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### Author:  [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095/4 "2003-05-05T13:30:36Z")
Maybe [Mumra](http://web.syr.edu/~daparker/thundercats.html) from the _Thundercats_?
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### Author:  [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-mummy-from-whence/173095/5 "2003-05-05T13:57:16Z")
The current incarnation of Spummy appeared as a collaboration among several cartoonists at a convention last year. I think I first became aware of his existence when he popped up in [Wigu](http://www.wigu.com/).