June 1984
Good Guy: Hercules
Bad Guy: Zeus
Cameos: Recorder, Apollo, Red Wolf, Skyppi the Skrull, Mentor, Eros
Synopsis
“A Pearl of Great Price!”
Writer/Artist: Bob Layton
Hercules arrives in Olympus to find it deserted and in ruins. He is shocked to find that his father, Zeus, has destroyed all the Gods of Olympus and intends to battle Hercules to the death.
Zeus and Hercules battle and as Herc has the advantage he cannot kill his father. His father says that Hercules has passed the test. He states that the time of the Gods has long since passed and that the fates decreed that one, born of the Gods and of man, will survive. Zeus feared that Hercules was so headstrong that he would fail to prove worthy but he did not.
Zeus says all the other Gods he had slain are safe in a different reality and he must join them. He gives Hercules the choice to decide to stay or join his brethren beyond the stars.
He decides to stay and forge his own beginning amongst the stars.
Rating: 7/10
Not a bad story reminiscent of the recent 2004 Thor series where he is ruler of Asgard. Looking forward to Thor’s return next month, I bet Hercules is too!!
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