Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, also known as The Rancid-Prince of Egyptian Laryngitis and David Bowie, were a duo of Communists from the realm of Ancient Egypt. The Rancid-Prince was an indigent, homeless, filthy bum who occasionally hallucinated a primate incarnation of President Dmitri Yuriev and could not speak because of his laryngitis. He possessed a sword that he pried from the roof of a McDonald's and enjoyed killing people in the name of the gods, though he would think of them as the undead or armadillos or something. He would sometimes cough up hairballs to help him on his journey, for he was also a cat-furry. On an unrelated note, his geriatric furry father, Wildcat, used to tag along with the Justice Society of America during his "glory days." As for the "Cursed Mummy," he was rea