Hercules
#2
(December 1967)
Charlton,
1967 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- [0.12 USD]
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
Charlton Comics
- Editing
- Dick Giordano
Issue Notes
Cover has no price.
detailed synopsis courtesy of Dean Webb for each sequence
detailed synopsis courtesy of Dean Webb for each sequence
[no title indexed]
Hercules / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hercules
- Reprints
-
in Charlton Classics (Charlton, 1980 series) #2 (July 1980) -
in Hercules (Avalon Communications, 2002 series) #1 (2002), #2 (2002) - in Hercules: Adventures of the Man-God Archive (Dark Horse, 2018 series) (August 2018)
-
When Man Meets Monster
Hercules / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Dennis O'Neil [as Sergius O'Shaughnessy]
- Pencils
- Sam Glanzman
- Inks
- Sam Glanzman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Machine Lettering; Sam Glanzman (sound effects)
- Job Number
- B-1111
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hercules; Zeus; Hera [villain]; Gerion [villain]; Aphrodite; Aeolus, King of the Winds; Boreus; Zephyr
- Synopsis
- Hercules defeats Gerion in the second of his twelve trials.
- Reprints
- in Charlton Classics (Charlton, 1980 series) #2 (July 1980)
- in Hercules (Avalon Communications, 2002 series) #1 (2002)
- in Hercules: Adventures of the Man-God Archive (Dark Horse, 2018 series) (August 2018)
-
[no title indexed]
Hercules / letters page / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Includes letters from future pro's Klaus Janson and Bill Mantlo. In a response to Janson the editors reveal that Hercules is intended as a sword and sorcery book, but do indicate that Herc will get a beard and begin wearing the Nemean Lion skin as something akin to a costume beginning with the very next issue.
The Molecules and the Cook Book
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- reveals a scientist who is ingenious enough to develop a recipe that will allow him to travel through solid objects, making him ostensibly the most powerful man in the world. Others seem to take this claim to heart and he is given great authority over world affairs and as master he plans to give his power to all people in the free world.
Chapter Two: The Plot
Thane of Bagarth / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Thane; Eowanda; Oslafstan; Garmscio
- Synopsis
- Thane is framed for dealing with the Swedes.
- Reprints
- in Hercules (Charlton, 1968 series) #8 (December 1968)
- in Thane of Bagarth (Charlton, 1985 series) #24 (October 1985)
- in Swords of Valor (A-Plus Comics, 1990 series) #2 (1990 [copyright date])
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Hercules -
1.
When Man Meets Monster
Hercules -
2.
[no title indexed]
Hercules -
3.
The Molecules and the Cook Book
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4.
Chapter Two: The Plot
Thane of Bagarth -
5.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- James Ludwig
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Bjorn Wallin
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