The Embalmer

The Embalmer is a villain from the licensed WWE horror comic series, inhabiting the dark supernatural world surrounding The Undertaker. Operating in a macabre, gothic corner of the Chaos! Comics universe, the character menaces the legendary wrestler and his eerie allies including Kane, Mankind, and Paul Bearer.

Rising from the macabre world of Chaos! Comics at the tail end of the 1990s, The Embalmer made their unsettling debut in Undertaker #1/2 in 1999, brought to life by writer Steven Grant and artist Jerry Beck. This Modern Age figure exists in a genuinely wild corner of comics history — a licensed universe built around WWE's legendary supernatural wrestler The Undertaker — sharing dark, atmospheric pages with the likes of Kane, Mankind, Paul Bearer, and Augustus. With 13 catalog appearances, two of which carry key-issue status for collectors, The Embalmer may occupy a compact corner of the comics world, but it's a memorably strange one that captures that late-'90s fever dream where professional wrestling and horror comics collided in the most gloriously unhinged way possible.