Pharaoh Khufu of Egypt

Political event

Vandal Savage rules Egypt as Khufu, or Cheops, the first Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, and builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Khufu is also impersonated at some point by the wizard Kulak.

During the Theban Dynasty of the Egyptian New Kingdom, Prince Khufu Kha-Taar rules his kingdom with wisdom, advised by the wandering hero Teth-Adam, chosen champion of Shazam, and the wizard Nabu. When Vandal Savage returns and attempts to reconquer Eqypt, he’s defeated by Prince Khufu and time-traveling members of the Justice Society of America, but Teth-Adam stops Savage’s most powerful minion by killing him. Disappointed, Shazam withdraws his power from Teth-Adam into an amulet, burying both the amulet and his body in the tomb of Ramses II, where they will lie until the present era when the hero is reborn as Black Adam.

Discovering a Thanagarian starship after it crashes in the desert, Prince Khufu labors to forge the alien Nth metal found inside the ship into fantastic artifacts with equally incredible abilities. Yet the Nth metal is also forged into a dagger cursed by the priest Hath-Set, secretly Vandal Savage, who uses it to murder Khufu and his beloved Chay-ara, locking the lovers and the priest into a cycle of reincarnation that lasts into the modern day, when the prince and his lover are the heroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

Vandal Savage then tricks the people and becomes Khufu and has a son.