If Lee and Kirby had tackled Egyptian mythology rather than Norse...

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In 1993, Alan Moore worked with several artists for Image for a project called "1963", which was both a loving tribute, a fitting homage and often a sly parody to the Silver Age/Marvel Age comics that Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko created. There was the Fury, a delightful variation of Spider-Man. There was Mystery Inc., a salute to the Fantastic Four. There were several anthology titles, with characters like USA and Johnny Beyond and N-Man--

...And then there was Horus.

A delightful re-imagining of Egyptian mythology through a Kirbyesque lens and Lee-ish hyperbole, Horus was the Egyptian god of the same name--but he also functioned as a super-hero--and he also transformed into the mortal Dr. Whittaker Falcon, a professor of Egyptology.
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Fantastic Four #9 - "Nativity!"

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The Shame of Chris Ware: Floyd Farland, Man of the Future (1987)

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( He would rather this didn't exist )

Batman '66 #1 - If you're NOT a fan of the old TV show...

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...then you might want to skip this post, but if you enjoyed it (Whether as straightforward entertainment as a kid, or in a slightly more self-aware sense later on) then you may well want to give this title a try.

( In which Alfred shows he's awesome in ANY iteration )