PRELUDE: Mystic Comics #3, Story B

Hercules

Featuring: Hercules
Release: March 29, 1940
Cover: June 1940
10 cents
7 pages

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Crime cruelty! Maybe I can stop such things!

In preparation for meeting Marvel’s Hercules, let’s meet Marvel’s first character with that name. Not the Olympian god but a forgettable superhero who bears his name. Recall that 1940s Marvel had more superheroes than anybody can name.

No credits are given. The Marvel Masterworks reprint credits story and art to Arnold Hicks.

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Amazing Spider-Man #27

Bring Back My Goblin to Me!

Featuring: Spider-Man
Release: May 11, 1965
Cover: August 1965
12 cents
Edited and written by Smilin’ Stan Lee
Plotted and drawn by Scowlin’ Steve Ditko
Lettered and gift-wrapped by Swingin’ Artie Simek
20 pages

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Spider-Man is still Green Goblin’s prisoner, as Green Goblin is trying to take over the gangs instead of Crime-Master.

Lots of mysteries left over from last issue. Who is Green Goblin? Who is Crime-Master? Who is Patch? What is Foswell’s secret connection to all this? We should answer all but one of those questions by issue’s end.

Spoilers likely follow.

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