Back in 1980 a little book called Dieties and Demigods was published as part of the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. The book was fantastic introducing me to mythologies that I was not familiar with before like Babylonian myths and Lovecraft myths. The artwork was amazing and I spent hours with pencil and tracing paper trying to copy the images on the pages before me.
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One of the sections stood out for me, the Egyptian Gods. I knew a little about mythology from reading various children’s books at the time, but this was my first real introduction to the myths of Egypt and an artist named Jeff Dee. Dee’s work was found all throughout this book and others in the D&D catalog and was a favorite of mine for many years. But his take on the Egyptian Gods left me wanting action figures based on them.
Fast forward a few decades and we arrive in the year of 2011 when Four Horsemen Studios released their latest Fantastic Exclusive, Scarabus. In this mazing set of figures lies 3 variants: Horus, Anibus, and Thoth. Three of the Egyptian Gods drawn by Jeff Dee published in my favorite D&D book come to life as action figures! When my figrues arrived I quickly went after the trio as I was excited to free these figures from their plastic prisons and relaese their power upon my action figure collections and thus fulfilling a childhood wish.
