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Issue: Hercules #4
Publication Date: June 1968
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Issues: #4 of 13 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Press, Inc.
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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Original Artwork
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Land of Menace

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman [as SJG]
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman [as SJG]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCharlton Classics #4 published October 1980
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Land of Menace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dennis O'Neil?
Penciller(s): Sam Glanzman [as SJG]
Inker(s): Sam Glanzman [as SJG]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules
Synopsis: Hercules seeks shelter in a cave where in the smoke of his fire Zeus and Hera appear. She then offers up a fourth task: get her some Golden Apples found in the other-dimensional world of Nul. He leaps into the portal and out in a desert landscape. There he meets a giant named Atlas who is chained and holding up a giant stone slab. Hercules throws the chain of Atlas into one of these rocks and frees the giant. Atlas takes Hercules to the Golden Apples and tells him that time is different in Nul and Hercules returns with the prize much to Hera's displeasure but Zeus is very happy.
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In Content Item: FlagCharlton Classics #4 published October 1980
as Land of Menace [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: B-1329
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The Goddess of Mercy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Synopsis: tells of a wicked warrior named Nicherin who steals a jewel from the Goddess of Mercy and summarily punished for his impudence transforming him into a tiny stone statue.
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Pages: 1
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Hercules

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hercules Letters to the Editor
Synopsis: Features four letters, two by Canadians. There is the usual praise for the Hercules and Thane of Bagarth and recommendations. One letter writer would like to see Son of Vulcan replace Thane of Bagarth but the editors reject this idea and point out that reading nothing but superheroes would be dull. There is a great little thumbnail portrait of Hercules by Glanzman done in a more realistic style.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Luciano DiNardo, William Silvester, Michael Ontko, and David Brown.
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Chapter Four: The Galley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Skeates (signed)
Penciller(s): Jim Aparo (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Aparo (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jim Aparo
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Thane of Bagarth
Character(s): Thane of Bagarth
Synopsis: The story starts with Hrothelac captured by Vikings and chained aboard a Viking galley as a slave. The leader of the Vikings is Figlaf and he imagines where they are headed, a new world beyond the great ocean and he wishes to explore it for his king. Meanwhile King Beowulf seeks out a soothsayer who reveals to him in magic mists that Eowanda the new Thane of Bagarth will lead Beowulf's forces in battle and get great fame. Beowulf is at once confused and threatened by this prediction. He rides back to his castles as Hrothelac suffers under the lash. A storm is building as the chapter closes.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThane of Bagarth #25 [Direct] published December 1985
as Chapter Four: The Galley [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSwords of Valor #4 published January 1991
as The Galley [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: B-1353
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Around the Clock Heroism...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Charlton war books

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