Dates
- Cover date
- [August 2026]
- On sale
- August 5, 2026
- Pages
- 144
Editions and covers
Story arc: The Herculoids: Protectors of Amzot
This is part 11 of 12. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- The Herculoids (2025) #1
- The Herculoids (2025) #2
- The Herculoids (2025) #3
- The Herculoids (2025) #4
- The Herculoids (2025) #5
- The Herculoids (2025) #6
- The Herculoids (2025) #7
- The Herculoids (2025) #8
- The Herculoids (2025) #9
- The Herculoids (2025) #10
- The Herculoids [Trade Paperback] (2026) #1
- The Herculoids [Hardcover] (2026) #1
Creators
Stories
- Protectors of Amzot · 22 pages
On the idyllic planet Amzot, The Herculoids rally to turn back a rapacious planetary mining expedition - as they have done many times before.
- There Were Monsters in Paradise! · 22 pages
The events leading up to Fortune-seeker Quen-Tel's invasion of the Herculiods' world of Amzot to mount a rapacious planetary mining expedition, with the full forces and mighty machinery of corporate backing - followed by a complete routing of those forces by the Herculiods. Also, a new enemy has awakened.
- The Enemy Below! · 22 pages
The Mole People, looking for a new underground home, after their settlement was destroyed when "a great star craft fell from the sky", tunnel upward into a subterranean chamber and find a mysterious mechanism, which controls their minds. Now uncontrollably aggressive, they attack the surface city of the Lomoreans, until Zandor and Zok come to the rescue. The mechanism "halts its infusion" of the now-wild Mole People, returning them to normal. The commander of the Mole People, who was not exposed to the mechanism, and the Herculoids resolve to find the cause of this strange occurrence.
- A Day of Change! · 22 pages
Laser-ray dragon Zok and a young stone forest dweller each undergo separate "rites-of-passage" for their respective life forms, the events of which unexpectedly intersect.
- Analysis and Assimilation! · 22 pages
The mysterious presence, dormant for ages beneath the surface of the the Planet Amzot, and seen in #3, comes alive to resume its ancient mission - accumulate data on the present-day inhabitants of Amzot, the planet of origin for a great galactic empire. A huge-headed entity called The Encephalon creates an adaptable Harvester to collect all biological data. An amorphous biped, the Harvester assimilates and assumes the characteristics of anyone it runs across - first three survivors of Quen-Tel's aborted mining expedition (issues #1-2) and then turns its absorbing attentions to The Herculoids.