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  Hercules (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hercules, or Heracles, being in one sense a superhero from classical antiquity, and a recognisable character freely available in the public domain, has been featured in a number of comic book series.
Marvel Hercules is a reserve member of The Avengers and was also a founding member of the short-lived Champions team (the creation of which involved his fellow Olympian gods).
Hercules is punished by Zeus to banishment on a journey through outer space, where he befriends the Recorder, an android given to him by the alien Regelians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hercules_(comics)   (1024 words)

  
 Zeus (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The version of Zeus depicted by Marvel Comics is based, at least somewhat, from the classical character of Greek mythology worshiped as a god in ancient Greece.
Zeus usually appears in the context of stories involving his illigitemate son Hercules or other gods, primarily Thor; he appears less frequently than his Asgardian counterpart, Odin.
A millennium ago, his son Hercules led a band of soldiers he had transported from ancient Greece through time to battle Norsemen who were under the protection of the Asgardian god Thor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeus_(comics)   (1216 words)

  
 Hercules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hercules, who has doffed his jacket, but is still wearing his vest, and looks pretty good, grabs the bull by the horns (literally) and twists the bull's head, cracking its spine.
Hercules uproots a tree and puts it in the path of the "torrent." Hercules (now with his shirt off, and wearing only his t-shirt) piles rocks and wood on top and in front of the tree, and hey presto!
I can only guess that, back in the 1930s and 1940s, the tendency, in circuses, was to name the strongman "Hercules." The staffs at Marvel, Quality, and MLJ (again, if I'm remembering their "Hercules" correctly) all apparently decided, more or less at the same time, to capitalize on this bit of cultural ephemera.
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Hercules, occupied with rescuing the teen from the raging sea creature, doesn't realize that the rock he has left behind is the prison the gods had created to contain the anti-gods.
Hercules is also not aware that the long dormant anti-gods have amassed enough power to thrust out one of their number, the Anti-Ares, who hastily needs a physical shell in which he can rest and slowly strengthen his malevolent force.
Hercules leads his friends and a band of android warriors across the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man. They fight their way into the opponent's fortress, but are shocked to learn that their enemy is Dave, now hooked up to a vast computer network.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/obscure/h.htm   (13947 words)

  
 The Wonder Woman Files... WONDER WOMAN A - Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Juno...) The daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the the wife of Zeus, she was the queen of the ancient Greek pantheon and worshipped as the goddess of marriage and birth.
Hercules sought and captured her golden girdle in his 'ninth labor' and the Amazons were taken into slavery.
According to comic legend, she secures their freedom with the aid of Aphrodite a new nation is formed, where they lived in relative peace until a mortal man wahes upon their shores.
wonderwoman.ultimatewonder.com /a-z.html   (5401 words)

  
 Silver Age Reviews
The cover of #1 depicts a bare-chested, clean-shaven Hercules (he would grow a beard later in the series) seizing an armored, sword-wielding adversary by the throat, as a battle rages in the background.
Hercules asks for forgiveness for being distracted from his quest to destroy the Nemean lion, but also confesses that he is tempted to abandon his labors altogether by "the love of a princess!" Much to Helen's amazement, Zeus replies and warns his son, "The choice is yours to make!
Hercules commands her to flee to Alexander's side as he confronts the lion single-handed.
silverage.greatnow.com /reviews/Hercules_1.htm   (1392 words)

  
 Hercules in Popular Culture
In contrast to the myths, Hercules manages to survive the cloak and Deinara and the children are killed by Hera, instead of Megara and the kids being killed by Hercules.
Hercules is extremely brave in the comics and definitely the world’s mightiest mortal.
Hercules as a comic book is important because it allows a younger audience to be exposed to an ancient hero.
people.uncw.edu /deagona/herakles/popmain.htm   (2278 words)

  
 Mighty Hercules: TVparty Lost Kid Shows
Hercules was the beginning of the end for that relationship, but even though she still doesn't get it, we remain friends to this day.
Hercules had a sidekick whom I remember as a faun or satyr, but one of the other two people I know who remembers the cartoon swears it was a centaur named "Newton".
Hercules couldn't fly, so at the end of each segment he was usually shown running off into the distance or jumping off a cliff, shouting his trademark "Olympia!"
www.tvparty.com /herc.html   (1516 words)

  
 Hercules, Modern Champion of Justice: a 1940 Comic Book Hero
Hercules battle the corrupt racketeers known as the Nameless Nine, who run the state of Missiansas and its capitol Midwest City.
Much is made here of Hercules finding his suit too constraining, thus causing him to shed it in favor of his trunks for his big fight with the crooks.
Hercules battles spies from the country of Bundania, who plan to form a fifth column within the United States.
members.aol.com /MG4273/herc2.htm   (1238 words)

  
 Hercules: A Super Hero of 1940's Comic Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hercules is plainly in the tradition of Superman, whose early stories also emphasized his strength, and the feats he could perform with it.
Hercules is not to confused with an entirely different series of super-hero tales, Hercules, Modern Champion of Justice, that appeared in Blue Ribbon Comics around the same time.
Hercules is a good guy, and he has tremendous joie de vivre as he helps people out.
members.aol.com /MG4273/hercul.htm   (288 words)

  
 Comic Book Resources - Comic Book News, Reviews and Commentary - Updated Daily!
Landing, Hercules is filled in on the dire situation by Helena and Prince Dorian.
Soon, with Hercules wrapped in a dark shroud, Newton and Tewt pay Charon to ferry the body of their "dead friend" across the river Styx to the Nether World.
Fortunately, Hercules has other ideas; uprooting a sapling, the mighty one hurls it like a javelin at the slave-shop, smashing half of its oars and causing it to travel in circles.
www.comicbookresources.com /columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2004-01-16   (2412 words)

  
 Wasp (comics)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jack Kirby alliance-color background: ffc0c0 status Inactive alliances previous-alliances The Avengers (comics) aliases relatives Henry Pym (Husband, divorced) powers Ability to shrink to the size of a wasp and use wings to fly and energy blasts in that state.
At the nadir of his degeneration, he struck her, and then proceeded to concoct a plan to make himself look good in front of his teammates by staging an attack upon them which only he could win.
She remained with The Avengers (comics) despite these hardships, and after Hank Pym mental state returned to normal, the two became friends again and, some years later, resumed a romantic relationship.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Avengers-members/Wasp-(comics).html   (396 words)

  
 rogueclassicism: Classical Comics Update
The hero of the TV show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a devoted family man. There is little trace of the many women who, in the early mythological tradition, fall innocent victim to his violent (and often extramarital) lust.
Hercules' new identity as a model of "enlightened" late twentieth-century American masculinity is constructed via his encounter with the Amazons in the pilot movie, Hercules and the Amazon Women.
And Hercules is deprived of the promiscuous sexual energy that characterizes his Greek counterpart as extraordinary in a way that sets him outside the pale of civilized life, even as his exploits make that life possible for others.
www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00000684.html   (3661 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Hercules comics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Look for Hercules comics in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
Look for Hercules comics in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
Check for Hercules comics in the deletion log, or visit its deletion vote page if it exists.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hercules__comics_   (892 words)

  
 Timely's Hercules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
History: (Mystic Comics #3) Raised in isolation by his scientist father, Hercules grew up on Snow Island in the Arctic.
Marketing him as "Hercules", their estimation proves to be correct, as he draws in the crowds.
Leaving the circus (without the unhappy owner's permission), Hercules saves the town from being submerged by a flood from a burst dam, and then sets out to end crime too.
www.internationalhero.co.uk /h/herculestimely.htm   (342 words)

  
 Hercules The Legendary Journeys (1994)
Hercules is the son of the King of the Gods, Zeus, and a mortal woman, Alcmene.
Almost letting his grief overtake him, Hercules starts out on a journey to destroy Hera but when his best friend, Iolaus, is captured by the She-Demon and killed because Hercules did not help, our hero rescues Iolaus and the town and kills the She-Demon.
Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994)
xoomer.virgilio.it /amasoni2002/shl/originals/hercules_the_legendary_journeys_(1994).htm   (159 words)

  
 Xena Comic Books: Early Hercules Comics
As Salmoneus is telling tales of Hercules' deeds for money, a woman approaches him and asks if he can lead her to Hercules.
After creaming the centaurs, Hercules agrees to help the woman, who tells him that her husband is being held captive and tortured in the Caucasian Mountains.
Zeus explains that Hercules is on trial for freeing Prometheus.
www.eskimo.com /~tegan/xena/herc1.html   (1009 words)

  
 Comics Continuum
Hercules #1 will arrive in stores on April 13 from Marvel Comics.
When his most bitter foe throws down the gauntlet, Hercules agrees to the challenge: Twelve labors, each more perilous than the one before it -- and each updated for reality-TV consumption.
Hercules #1 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.99.
www.comicscontinuum.com /stories/0503/23/marvelfirsts.htm   (493 words)

  
 The Silver Age Marvel Comics Cover Index Reviews page
To Hercules, it's mostly all fun and a chance to settle once and for all the question of who's the strongest (a contest begun in Journey Into Mystery Annual # 1).
Meanwhile in tinseltown, Hercules proves to be a soft touch when he's duped into signing an ironclad 'Olympian pact' that forces him to exchange places with Pluto as the ruler of the Netherworld.
If there were well written comics before silver age Marvel, they generally dwelled on the horrors of war or crime and if they came afterwards, they were permutated by the cynicism and moral relativism of the post-Reagan era.
www.samcci.comics.org /reviews/marvel-keys_pt3_pg03.htm   (3373 words)

  
 Assassins' Guild (Earth-Hercules 2300 foes)
He was hit by Arimathes and Hercules at the same time, but his body armor protected him.
He returned with a flying attack and used his laser against a building to bury Hercules under debris, but Arimathes tossed Malicon at Akooti and they were both knocked out.
Arimathes pushed him away from Hercules at the last second and was seriously injured by "Detonator" 's explosion.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/assnguildherc.htm   (736 words)

  
 The Final Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Manga comics in both markets are nothing new, but the prominence of books like Battle Chasers and Dark Minds has caused fans of those titles to take a look at other Manga titles, and thus we have a surge in Manga popularity on North America.
For too long the content of comics has remained fairly consistent, and the long term survival of the comics medium is contingent upon the medium periodically reinventing itself.
TV and Manga comics are an excellent start, and might perhaps be one of the first steps toward a thriving and healthy comic marketplace.
www.collectortimes.com /1999_03/LastWord.html   (639 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Disney's Hercules: Official Comics Movie Adaptation (Disney's Hercules): Books: Evan Skolnick,Valerie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I dont know was she right or not, but now I am (really) a strong man. The greeks, the myths, the saturday nights when someone (again grammy) read me those tales.
Hercules was then in my "top 10" on the 4th position.
When I read "Disneys Hercules" now, I realize what I?ve never seen before: The Hercules story told through the pictures is much more powerful than written word.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578400732?v=glance   (571 words)

  
 Vision (comics)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He originated in the Golden Age of Comic Books, and his only major appearance in modern comics was in the second series of The Invaders (comics), in which he was summoned to Earth and manipulated by Nazi Germany into attacking the Allies.
The Visions body was created from that of the original Human Torch, while the patterns of his synthetic brain were based on those of the then-deceased Wonder Man. The Vision rebelled against his father and soon joined the Avengers.
The Vision and Scarlet Witchs children were then revealed to not be actual children at all: they were fragments of the soul of the demon Mephisto (comics), who had been broken apart by Franklin Richards shortly before the birth of the twins.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Avengers-members/Vision-(comics).html   (561 words)

  
 IGN: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Check out how far Hercules has come via a whole truckload of new movies and screenshots.
Hercules and Blues Brothers 2000 won't be summer titles after all.
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
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 KMC Forums - Juggernaut vs. Hercules
In the comics Juggernaut and Gladiator have never fought.
In comics, Hulk has beaten Gladiator, but Gladiator has a glaring weakness.
I think Hercules with his adamantium chalice would teach `ol Juggernaut a lesson just like Wolverine with his claws would.
www.killermovies.com /forums/f77/t332573.html   (744 words)

  
 Little Hercules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But Hercules is nearly as strong as his namesake, quite capable of knocking much larger adults out and smashing boulders with one blow, and when his plane, the "Sky Bird," is blown up in mid-air, Hercules is not harmed by the explosion or the fall.
Notes: "Little Hercules" is drawn by Bud Sagendorf in the style of E.C. Segar and his own work on Popeye.
It makes for a somewhat uncanny experience, reading Little Hercules' adventures and expecting Popeye or Brutus or the Jeep or the Sea Hag to make an appearance at any moment.
www.geocities.com /jjnevins/lhercules.html   (95 words)

  
 The Planet - Who would win between Superman and Hercules?
Hercules is meant to have the strength of ten men!
And Post-crisis could also beat hercules, but it would take him at least ten more minutes to do so.
I was looking at the Hercules cartoon movie and Hercules showed pure invincibility.He threw a hurricane in the air,took a beating from a monster with hundreds of heads and then when Hercules caused a rockslide to kill the monster,he still survived.I think that there's a 99% chance of him winning in a fight against Superman.
www.bluetights.net /theplanet/showthread.php?p=103057   (315 words)

  
 Hercules? - The Superhero Hype! Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I was wondering if any body knew anything about the marvel version of hercules (or Heracles if you prefer the greek spelling) I grew up reading myths and Hercules is my favorite of the greek heros and i was just curious if any body knew any thing.
The two 80's Bob Layton HERCULES mini-series for Marvel were actually pretty decent, I thought.
Marvel's Hercules is relatively close to the mythological Hercules, IMO.
www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=76183   (413 words)

  
 All-Amazing Comics #3
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Lt. Hercules was a super-hero for hire managed by Merlin.
This book is, if you couldn't tell, heavily patterned off of Bill Nolan's Pure Excitement Comics (which is highly recommended that you read!!!) Like his book, I will publish 3 Golden Age stories each month (as long as my supply holds up).
members.fortunecity.com /goldenyears1/AAC3-ProfilesLetters.html   (808 words)

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