Hercules

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The Most famous Greek legendary hero, a mighty hunter and warrior born to Alemene and fathered by Zeus.

In May-June 1944, a member of Metropolis’s Liars Club wins the club’s coveted Best Tall Tale award for a tale he concocts concerning a fictional meeting between Superman and Hercules. In the story, Superman encounters the legendary hero after allowing himself to be sent into the distant past, to ancient Greece in the age of the mighty Greek gods and goddesses, in order to test a time machine invented by scientist Professor Button. To his great surprise, the Man of Steel discovers that the man who has been immortalized in myth as a great hunter and warrior was actually a puny, cowardly weakling. And so, to safeguard Hercules’s hallowed place in folklore, Superman performs the legendary twelve labors in Hercules’s stead, thereby keeping alive Hercules’s reputation as the greatest Greek Hero. (S No.28, May-June 1944 "Stand-In For Hercules!")

Hercules, in his many forms, has appeared in the following Superman Comics

• (S No.28, May-June 1944 "Stand-In For Hercules!")
• (Adv No.257, Feb 1959 "The First Two Supermen!")
• (AC No.268, Sep 1960 "Superman's Battle With Hercules!")
• (AC No.279, Aug 1961 "The Super-Rivals!")
• (S No.155, Aug 1962 "The Downfall of Superman!")
• (AC No.308, Jan 1964 "Superman Meets the Goliath-Hercules!")
• (AC No.320, Jan 1965 "The Three Super-Enemies!")
• (AC No.353, Aug 1967 "The Battle of the Gods!")
• (DCCP No.57, May 1983 "Days of Future Past!")