There is a two part strip (the whole work would have been six parts) that no one other than three tight lipped people have ever seen. It is, however, legendary: Outlaws of the Urban Forest.
It was created in the early 1980s and set in the 21st when a mystery disease had wiped out a lot of the world's population. Yeah, I saw Covid 19 coming if you didn't😎 basically the world had fallen back to a near Medieval period. Later parts of the story would flash back to "The Red Star" and Middle East wars which led to the total breakdown of society.
In England one man's life was almost following the legend of Robin Hood. A resistance (as in rob people with wealth for your own purposes) formed around him and so the story progressed. I mention this as someone asked elsewhere how modern comic creators would treat characters from myth and legends. Almost all the ideas were very -VERY- derivative of TV shows and movies and one wasliterally The Dark Knight storyline featuring an old pulp character.
For me the fact that thses characters are legends or myths means that is all you need to know. "Hey, these characters were loved in the 1960s so let's bring them back -just change them so they are not what made them popular!" The UK and US have prime examples of this. You should know what I am talking about. The same things apply to cult movies and TV shows.
Heracles is Heracles and Thor is Thor. Gilgamesh is Gilgamesh and these, and many others, have had their stories last thousands of years and they are still popular. Put them in super hero suits .... no. You can feature these characters in stories without messing them up -Gilgamesh turned up for a cameo in Return of the Gods -as did the Monkey King. Really, each writer should have a good enough creative brain to be able to adapt such characters to modern events.
Rather like British Platinum, Golden and Dark ages comic characters I do not suddenly make them cold, dark killers or having dirty secrets. I just add to their historic stories and in some ways it really works well. Take Krakos the Egyptian; I never found his origin story but I read all of the strips (Swan the publisher could not even remeber him) and gave his back story. Twenty or so years later (actually more than 30 years!!) I found the original story and it tied in so well with what I wrote that it was claimed that I must have seen the origin story!
I read as many Iron Warrior strips as I could and buying the albums featuring the stories cost a lot of money but I was correct based on what I had learnt before that, far from Alan Moore and other 'knowledgable' comic writers claims; Rodney Dearth the IWs creator was not a "son of the empire" out to suppress native peoples and gain as much wealth as possible -in the strips he is the complete opposite.
You need to know your characters and stay true to what they have always been while introducing them in new stories.
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