EGYPT!

Nabu the Wise
More Fun Comics v1 #67 1941
Three thousand years ago Nabu was a sorcerer from Sumer who became the vessel and prison of a Lord of Order who had been cast out for gross interference. He would come to be revered as a god of Wisdom and Writing and every so often would take on a Champion of Fate and train them in magic to fight the forces of Chaos. This seldom turned out well for the Champion.
In time Nabu traveled south to Egypt to face the Reach incursion, and there raised up another Champion who fought beside the greatest heroes of the age.

The Wizard of SHAZAM
Whiz Comics v1 #2 1940 Fawcett

Fragments from Dead Sea Scroll Book of Giants 4Q203, 1Q23, 2Q26, 4Q530-532, 6Q8//Compare Genesis 6:4

4Q531 Frag. 2 [ . . . ] they defiled [ . . . ] 2 [ . . . they begot] giants and monsters [ . . . ] 3 [ . . . ] they begot, and, behold, all [the earth was corrupted . . . ] 4 [ . . . ] with its blood and by the hand of [ . . . ] 5 [giant's] which did not suffice for them and [ . . . ] 6 [ . . . ] and they were seeking to devour many [ . . . ] 7 [ . . . ] 8 [ . . . ] the monsters attacked it.

4Q532 Col. 2 Frags. 1 - 6 2 [ . . . ] flesh [ . . . ] 3al [l . . . ] monsters [ . . . ] will be [ . . . ] 4 [ . . . ] they would arise [ . . . ] lacking in true knowledge [ . . . ] because [ . . . ] 5 [ . . . ] the earth [grew corrupt . . . ] mighty [ . . . ] 6 [ . . . ] they were considering [ . . . ] 7 [ . . . ] from the angels upon [ . . . ] 8 [ . . . ] in the end it will perish and die [ . . . ] 9 [ . . . ] they caused great corruption in the [earth . . . ] [ . . . this did not] suffice to [ . . . ] "they will be [ . . . ]

      Thousands of years ago the Grigori who were set to watch over man descended from their post to live amongst their charges. They set themselves up as teachers introducing ideas and concepts man was not yet ready for and going amongst the women as they pleased. They gave rise to the Nephelim, half divine giants who ruled with wickedness and terror. To protect man a young shepherd Jedediah was given the power of six angels and with the word SHAZAM became the Champion of Heaven. For many years the champion fought, but the Grigori were powerful and their Nephelim offspring were terrible and a host of Angels lead by Raphael were sent to bind them in Dudael which became the Rock of Eternity.

S: The Wisdom of Sariel
H: The Strength of Hadraniel
A: The Power of Azreal
Z: The Speed of Zadkiel
A: The Stamina of Abaddon
M: The Courage of Michael

The Champion would serve for centuries until seduced by a demoness and consequently stripped of his powers. He was then placed as warden of the Rock of Eternity, called Dudael, to keep the Grigori and their Nephilim offspring imprisoned. It was during this time he began a serious study of magic en-route to becoming a great sorcerer. The children of Jebediah and the demoness were raised in hell and came to rule their own corners, but in the way of demons always lusting for more.

From his post on the Rock the old champion searched for someone to take up his mantle. He found Teth Adam of Kahndaq a proud Jewish king and bestowed upon him the powers of SHAZAM. When the pharaoh Kha-Ef-Re discovered the Scarabaeus Khaji Da and unknowingly brought the Reach from the Subtle Realms to Earth Jedediah sent Teth Adam to Egypt to join with a group of heroes from across the known world including Kha-Ef-Re, the Atlantean Atlan, the sorcerer Nabu, and the wielders of the Ruby of Life, the Starheart and the Tantu Totem.

This League beat back the Reach incursion and would continue to bring justice to the region until the death of Kha-Ef-Re at the hands of Vandal Savage. The wielder of the Ruby of Life was torn apart by the Heart of Darkness and blasted across the planet the ruby ending up in South America, the fragment of the Heart would wind up in the hands of an Egyptian boy who would go on to fight the Black Pharaoh. A Thanagarian assassin stranded on Earth and working for Savage killed Kha-Ef-Re's son but was in turn killed by Teth Adam. Kha-Ef-Re's grandson Khufu then became pharaoh and carried the assassin's wings. During the reign of Khufu Nabu was banished from the mortal realms, The Mighty Adam was imprisoned for fear he was under the influence of Jedediah's half-demon daughter Blaze, Jedediah's connection to the world was severed leaving him stranded on the Rock of Eternity, and Khufu and his wife Chay-Ara were murdered by the priest Hath-Set under orders from Vandal Savage. Khufu and Chay-Ara were both descended from the homo-magi and killed by a psychoactive Nth metal dagger. This set their souls, and the soul of Hath-Set, on a cycle of rebirth.




Carter Hall – Hawkman – Egypt 1930-1934
Sheira Saunders – Hawkgirl 1933-1934
Flash Comics #1 1940
Kent Nelson – Fate – Egypt 1930-1934
Inza Saunders 1933-1934
More Fun Comics #55 1940
Louis Sendak - Scarab – Egypt 1930-1935
Blue Beetle #1 1964 #1 Charlton
Scarab #1 1993 Vertigo

C.C. Batson – Captain Marvel – Egypt
Marilyn Batson
Whiz Comics #2 1940 Fawcett
Power of Shazam 1993
Andrea Thomas – Isis – Egypt
Rick Mason
Isis 1x01 – The Lights of Mystery Mountain 1975 CBS
SHAZAM v1 #25 1976 DC

John Sargent – Sargon the Sorcerer – Middle East
All-American Comics v1 #26 1941 DC

Ed Dawson – Lion-Mane – Iran
Hawkman v1 #20 1967 DC
Pandora Pan
PANDORA PAN, mentioned in THE COMIC READER #197 and 201 (Dec. 1981; May 1982):

Originally slated for release in July of 1982, Len Wein and Ross Andru's Pandora Pan was described in TCR #197 as "the assistant of an archaeologist who unwittingly opens Pandora's Box and spends the rest of her time trying to retrieve the evil she has unleashed by doing so."

Slated for a preview in June's SAGA OF SWAMP THING #5, the series was instead put on indefinite hiatus "due", according to TCR #202, "to Len Wein's inability to find the time to write it." A piece of promotional art also appeared in #201. Launched instead was ARION, LORD OF ATLANTIS, which had run for several months in WARLORD.

From www.cosmicteams.com/obscure/p.…

In this case “Pandora's Box” is a Grandmother Box from New Genesis.

Barbara Minerva – Cheetah
Wonder Woman v2 #7 1987 DC
Ian Karkull – Sahara
Everett Dahlen
More Fun Comics v1 #69 1941 DC

Rick Nelson – Manhunter – Savanna
Adventure Comics v1 #73 1942 DC
John “Lion Boy” Starker – Africa
Hit Comics #6 1940 Quality
William “Congo Bill” Glenmorgan – Congo
More Fun Comics v1 #56 1940 DC
Janu
Action Comics v1 #191 1954 DC


Doctor Mist
Super Friends v1 #12 1978 DC
Lee Granger the Jungle King – Africa
Eric the Talking Lion
Slam-Bang Comics v1 #1 1940 Fawcett
Hugo Danner
See Danners 
Immortal Man
Strange Adventures v1 #177 1965 DC
Nyssa Raatko
Detective Comics v1 #783 2003 DC
Bogdan Raatko (Slovenian Jew) (Raatz = German for Wise or Advisor, -ko = Slovenian suffix)


The Cairo Club, at its heart, was the Shadow Cabinet from 1925-1940 – Immortal Man, the founder of the Shadow Cabinet; Doctor Mist, an ancient sorcerer; Nyssa Raatko, daughter of the nigh immortal eco-terrorist Ra's al Ghul, and Hugo Danner a scientifically enhanced modern man. Raatko sought out Danner after her father's organization – the Demon's Hand – identified Danner as a possible heir to the empire and Ra's in turn discounted him as too idealistic. Lee Granger was their man of science and local expediter. Granger and Danner were already familiar due to time spent in the French Foreign Legion. The Club itself was housed on the upper floors of Granger's Blue River Cafe.
Seeing that greater threats would arise in the aftermath of the Great War the Cabinet began gathering together their catspaws in 1930 starting with the hunters Rick Nelson and Bill Glenmorgan (and their respective sidekicks).

Carter Hall, originally from Detroit, and Kent Nelson (a cousin of Rick Nelson), the son of an archaeologist from New York, met in college in New York then wound up working with Louis Sendak, who was originally from Long Island, while in the field. They ran across the Saunders Girls during a wild night in Morocco fighting followers of the Religion of Crime and the five were just about inseparable there-after. They found the Blue River on their own, but Immortal Man convinced them to join the fight.

The Batsons (with Theo Adam) and Andrea Thomas (and her 'friend' Rick Mason) were all from Chicago and met on the boat from New York to LaHavre. In Cairo they were approached by Doctor Mist and introduced to the Club.

John Sargent and Ed Dawson (and Dawson's assistant Pan) had worked together in Philadelphia and met again in Istanbul, where they began collaborating again. Lee Granger convinced them to come to Cairo and they joined the Club soon after.

Barbara Minerva accepted Danner's invitation more for the potential treasure than any interest in saving the world, while Ian Karkull and Everett Dahlen saw the Club as a means to uncovering the secret histories of the world when they were approached in Greece by Raatko.

Vandal Savage and General Immortus were the main reoccurring villains. It was Savage's scheming that encouraged Hath-Set and led to the fall of Prince Khufu and The Mighty Adam, and the imprisonment of Shazam and Nabu. He would go on to play a significant part with the Nazis in WWII.
Everything from ancient civilizations and militant gorillas to mummies and the occasional dragon got dealt with. This is also BEFORE anyone had powers or became a recognized hero.

Janu, Lion Boy, and Eric got into all sorts of mischief on their own.

It all fell apart by inches in the end. Immortal Man was killed by an agent of Vandal Savage only to resurrect on the other side of the world. Dr. Minerva was the first to disappear – into the jungles of Deepest Darkest Africa – then Andrea Thomas on a dig in Egypt. Pandora Pan got involved with a Fourth World artifact (the Grandmother Box) in Mesopotamia (and spent the next few decades on New Genesis) while Ed Dawson would find a meteor/alien device in Iran soon after. One day Karkull and Dahlen followed a rumour out into the Sahara and never returned. In Egypt the Batsons were betrayed by their partner Theo Adam, Kent Nelson and Inza Saunders got swept up in the schemings of a lost god, and Carter Hall and Sheira Saunders came into possession of the dagger that killed them when they ruled Egypt four thousand years before. When Louis Sendak discovered the blue scarab that was pretty much it; Congo Bill and Janu returned to the Congo, Rick Nelson and his ward Lionboy went back to America that was the end of the Cairo Club.
Nyssa and Bogdan returned to Slovenia to join the resistance and in time raise their two daughters, but ended up in a concentration camp. Danner figured to hell with it all and fled to Siberia as Doctor Mist simply walked out of history yet again (only to turn up in New York a few years later as Mister Mystery). Immortal Man found himself reborn in Mexico. They hadn't prevented the war but they had kept things from getting anywhere near as bad as they could have. It was a time for soldiers, not adventurers.
Instead of emptying or tearing down the Blue River Doctor Mist placed a gease on the building that caused interest and focus to just drift over it. No one wanted to explore or vandalize it, no one thought to buy or renovate it. While the building had belonged to Lee Granger he had sold it to Hugo Danner who in turn left it to his son Arnold Munro. Munro would use the place as a safe-house and retreat during the 40s and his Argent days.



Lordy... I don't even know where to begin. SHAZAM was a such a kockeputzi of patrons I went and unified it based on the inclusion of Solomon. Leaves plenty of room for those '50s-'60s characters who used Greek and Roman gods and makes a team-up of Captain Marvel, the Golden Age Jerzy Reganiewicz/Gerry Regan Ragman, and Monolith kinda awesome.

Archaeologist heroes always seem so pulp to me it made sense to throw them all together between the wars.

The Reach... I didn't like the idea of Blue Beetle having a science fiction origin? Except Ted. It made him unique following up a magic hero with science since he couldn't get the magic to work. So now the Reach are magical Subtle Realms sorts and it really ties everything together nicely.

Everything here is probably property of DC Comics, I just remixed the unholy hell out of it.