- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Louis Williams (credited) (pp. 4-24); Terry Shoemaker (credited) (pp. 1-3, 25)
- Inks
- Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein) (Guest Inker)
- Colors
- Gregory Wright (credited as Greg Wright)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Four hundred-fifty years ago, the Church of Rome came to this land.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- New Mutants: Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (flashback); Cypher [Doug Ramsey] (flashback); Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh] (flashback); Magik [Illyana Rasputina] (flashback); Magma [Amara Aquilla] (also in flashback); Mirage [Dani Moonstar] (flashback); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (flashback); Warlock (flashback); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (flashback)
Apollo; Ares (cameo); Empath [Manuel de la Rocha]; Hercules (guest); Pluto [Hades]; Zeus; other Olympian gods; Jaime Suarez (introduction, death); Bennie; Sydney
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- 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.
- Reprints
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).