Sphinx (Marvel)
The Sphinx is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Anath-Na Mut
When the wizard's apparent magical abilities proved to be inferior to the powers demonstrated by Moses, the leader of the captive Israelites, Ramses banished the wizard. After years of wandering, the wizard happened upon a temple of unknown origin, inside which was the mystical Ka Stone. The mystical stone seemed to bid him to touch it to his forehead. The moment he did so, the stone affixed itself to him and imbued him with vast superhuman powers and immortality. The wizard assumed the name of the Sphinx and spent the next 5,000 years traveling the Earth without purpose, involving himself in whichever endeavors of mankind struck his fancy. Eventually the Sphinx became profoundly bored with his immortal life and began to search for a means to free himself from the Ka stone and its unwanted powers. Hearing of a being whose powers rivaled his own, he traveled to the Himalayan mountains where he encountered the enigmatic mystical entity he called Sayge. Sayge refused to help him and tormented him for unknown reasons with his predictions of the Sphinx's supposedly unalterable destiny of eternal life. Sayge, also known as Veritas, the embodiment of truth, frequently accompanied the Sphinx, again for reasons that remain unknown. (Fantastic Four v1 #212)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Anath-Na Mut was stated to be a Cosmic Class Threat by Reed Richards. (Nova v4 #32)
The Ka Stone was originally a fragment of the Lifestone Tree, a collaboration of various alien species. Many of the fragments ended up on Earth, after the space ship transporting them was shot down thousands of years ago. Around 5,000 years ago, the Ka Stone was found by Anath-Na Mut in the temple of the Ka. He had wandered in the desert for 90 years after his defeat at the hands of Moses and being expelled from his duties as chief wizard to Ramses II. The Ka Stone empowered Anath-Na Mut and turned him into the Sphinx. As the Sphinx he became an immortal, with godlike power, but he eventually grew weary of immortality and sought a way to end his life. For a period of months after gaining the Ka stone the Sphinx was overwhelmed by the power he had gained and was nursed back to health by a nomad woman. This woman would later become a perpetual reincarnate and became obsessed with the Sphinx. (New Warriors v1 #13)
Notes
- The Sphinx was created by Marv Wolfman and Sal Buscema where he made his first appearance in Nova v1 #6 (February, 1977).
Appearances
- Nova v1: (1977)
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