[1] N'Kantu the Living Mummy first appeared in Supernatural Thrillers #5 (August 1973), created by Steve Gerber and Rich Buckler.

With the cover logo reading "Supernatural Thrillers featuring The Living Mummy", the series ran from #7 to the final issue, #15 (June 1974 - Oct. 1975).

With issue #8, the creative team became writer Tony Isabella and artist Val Mayerik, occasionally credited as co-plotter.

[volume & issue needed] Returning from a hunt, N'Kantu finds that his village has been ransacked and the entire tribe of Swarili rounded up by Egyptians as slaves.

[volume & issue needed] N'Kantu and the Swarili are then taken to Egypt, and put to work building monuments to the current Pharaoh, Aram-Set.

Recognized as the strongest, and most dangerous of the Swarili, N'Kantu is isolated and forced to work the hardest in an attempt to break his spirit.

N'Kantu is then strapped and bound to a special altar, his body wrapped in papyrus, and his blood is drained and replaced with an unknown alchemical preservative.

[volume & issue needed] N'Kantu later teams up with the Thing and his girlfriend Alicia Masters against General Hassan, another descendant of Nephrus, preventing him from obtaining the Spirit Gem.

[volume & issue needed] After defeating this villain, N'Kantu spends some time guarding the mystic Orb of Ra.

[volume & issue needed] During this time, N'Kantu is approached by Nick Fury and is convinced to join his group of Howling Commandos, and they fight against the powerful Merlin in Area 13.

[19] N'Kantu later appears as a member of the Legion of Monsters alongside Morbius, the Living Vampire, Werewolf by Night, Manphibian, and Man-Thing.

[23] N'Kantu was with the Legion of Monsters when they helped to evacuate Brownville so that Morbius can fight Rose and his makeshift Ultimate Nullifier.

[24] N'Kantu was later recruited by Phil Coulson to join his incarnation of the Howling Commandos to fight Dormammu's Mindless Plague.

[27] As a result of the transfusion of an unknown embalming fluid by the Egyptian high priest Nephrus, N'Kantu has superhuman strength and durability.

N'Kantu, the Living Mummy was ranked #18 on a listing of Marvel Comics' monster characters by Den of Geek in 2015.