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| Thanks for Hercules, Kracalactaka! More please! |
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| "Thane of Bagarth" (a side-story to the legend of Beowulf) by Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo is a drama worthy of Shakespeare, intelligently written and faithful to the original Anglo-Saxon epic poem. I am glad that Dark Horse was able to rescue Sam Glansman's saga of the Labors of Hercules by reprinting it in an Archive edition, but it's a shame that the Skeates/Aparo backup feature has been lost to obscurity. |
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| Publication | December 1967 | Price: [0.12 USD] | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
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| Featuring | Hercules |
| Credits | Pencils: Sam Glanzman | Inks: Sam Glanzman |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Hercules |
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| Comic Story | When Man Meets Monster (18 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hercules defeats Gerion in the second of his twelve trials. |
| Featuring | Hercules |
| Credits | Script: Dennis O'Neil [as Sergius O'Shaughnessy] | Pencils: Sam Glanzman | Inks: Sam Glanzman | Letters: Machine Lettering; Sam Glanzman (sound effects) | Job #: B-1111 |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Hercules; Zeus; Hera [villain]; Gerion [villain]; Aphrodite; Aeolus, King of the Winds; Boreus; Zephyr |
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| 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. |
| Featuring | Hercules |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
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| Text Story | The Molecules and the Cook Book (1 page) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Script: Joe Gill? | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Comic Story | Chapter Two: The Plot (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Thane is framed for dealing with the Swedes. |
| Featuring | Thane of Bagarth |
| Credits | Script: Steve Skeates | Pencils: Jim Aparo | Inks: Jim Aparo | Letters: Jim Aparo |
| Content | Genre: Sword And Sorcery | Characters: Thane; Eowanda; Oslafstan; Garmscio |
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| Synopsis | The comic book ends with a great Charlton house ad with the funny blurb "Buy Charlton Comics! (We need the money!)". |
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