AMULET OF ANUBIS	BIOGRAPHY
Created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman

MAGICAL ARTIFACT DATA

Name: Amulet of Anubis
First Appearance: More Fun Comics #55/3 (May 1940)
(identified as Amulet of Anubis): First Issue Special #9 (December 1975)
Creators: Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman

HISTORY

In 2030 B.C., the Egyptian deity Anubis rewarded his most devoted follower, the mad priest Khalis, with a gift, the Amulet of Anubis, holding part of the god's own power. In the following years, Khalis used the Amulet to take mental control of a legion of Nubian slaves and made them build "the mightiest of pyramids" to honour Anubis. However, when Nabu the Wise, a Lord of Order in human form who served various Egyptian Pharaohs, discovered the actions of Khalis, he was not pleased. With a wave of his arm, Nabu freed the slaves from the priest's spell and let them have their revenge on Khalis. As Khalis was buried, Nabu took the Amulet as his own. In the 1940s, Nabu transformed Kent Nelson into his champion Doctor Fate, The Amulet has been part of the arsenal of this Fate and all his successors ever since.

Inside the Amulet of Anubis lies an entire world, where the now deceased former incarnations of Fate – Kent and Inza Nelson, Eric and Linda Strauss, and Jared Stevens, plus Kid Eternity – live on. Mordru and Fury (II) have also been held prisoner here.

CHRONOLOGY

For a definitive list of appearances of Amulet of Anubis in chronological order click here