- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- Louis Williams (pp. 4-24); Terry Shoemaker (pp. 1-3, 25)
- Inks
- Joe Rubinstein
- Colors
- Gregory Wright
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Magma; Empath; New Mutants [Cannonball; Cypher; Karma; Magik; Magma; Mirage; Sunspot; Warlock; Wolfsbane] (Flashback); Hercules (guest-star); Zeus; Apollo; Ares; other Olympian gods; Jaime Suarez (introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Magma tells Empath about how she met her god: when she once doubted her faith, Hercules visited her, but she did not believe he was real until he saved a boy from a fire and told him stories all night until he died, a hero, like Jason and the Argonauts.
A fill-in issue. Most of this story is a flashback to events that probably occurred between issues #35 and #36 (since this seems to be the New Mutants' first meeting with Hercules, before issue #40).