i'll go up to bat for Alan Moore's Supreme, whose first arc (The Story of the Year) builds out the titular superhero's backstory thru flashbacks to supreme's gold and silver-age history. the flashback tales are deftly weaved into supreme's ongoing adventures; Moore knows that he can't dip back into the earnestly modern waters of 50s/60s superman--er, supreme--without acknowledging how much has changed in comics (and our world) since then, so he doesn't try. he leans into the paradoxes that arise in a, dare i say, postmodern fashion. anyways i probably sound like a dipshit asshole so i will stop now. read Supreme! it's awesome! it's supreme.