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Issue: Hercules #2
Publication Date: December 1967
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Issues: #2 of 13 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: Charlton ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dick Giordano
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagHercules #2 published January 2002
In Content Item: FlagCharlton Classics #2 published July 1980
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When Man Meets Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dennis O'Neil [as Sergius O'Shaughnessy]
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Machine Lettering; Sam Glanzman (sound effects)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): 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.
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In Content Item: FlagCharlton Classics #2 published July 1980
as When Man Meets Monster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: B-1111
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hercules
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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Molecules and the Cook Book

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Chapter Two: The Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Skeates
Penciller(s): Jim Aparo
Inker(s): Jim Aparo
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Aparo
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Thane of Bagarth
Character(s): Thane; Eowanda; Oslafstan; Garmscio
Synopsis: Thane is framed for dealing with the Swedes.
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In Content Item: FlagHercules #8 published December 1968
as Chapter Two: The Plot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThane of Bagarth #24 [unnamed variant] published October 1985
as Chapter Two: The Plot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSwords of Valor #2 published January 1990
as The Plot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
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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Pages: 1

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