PRELUDE: Daring Mystery Comics #5, Story H

Introducing Little Hercules

Featuring: Little Hercules
Release: April 11, 1940
Cover: June 1940
10 cents
By: SAG
4 pages

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Marvel’s second character named Hercules debuted just days after the original, this one known as “Little Hercules”.

The comic is signed SAG, referring to Bud Sagendorf.

It’s a gag comic, not the “serious” adventures we’ve been reading. Little Hercules is only 12, but he’s the smartest and strongest boy on Earth. The comic opens with him being awarded a doctorate in all the sciences.

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