Dates
- Cover date
- December 2010
- On sale
- October 6, 2010
- In stores
- October 6, 2010
- Pages
- 48
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Pencil CoverThis edition’s page
- 2nd printing
2nd Printing Variant
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 75960607365800141
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Story arc: Chaos War
This is part 1 of 17. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Chaos War #1
- Chaos War #2
- Chaos War #3
- Chaos War: Thor #1
- Chaos War: Chaos King #1
- Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1
- Chaos War: Alpha Flight #1
- Chaos War: God Squad #1
- Chaos War: Ares #1
- Chaos War #4
- Chaos War: Thor #2
- Chaos War: Dead Avengers #2
- Incredible Hulks #618
- Incredible Hulks #619
- Chaos War: Dead Avengers #3
- Chaos War #5
- Chaos War: X-Men #2
Creators
Stories
- The End Is Nigh · Chaos War · 27 pages
After Nightmare learns that Hercules has been resurrected, he is murdered by the Chaos King, which sets off a vibration throughout the Marvel Universe. When an enraged and empowered Hercules reappears, heroes gather to stop him but he is taken away by the Council of Godheads. Refusing to bow to their will, he returns to Earth and shares his newfound power with his friends so that they can confront the Chaos King in the coming battle.
- I Was Legend · 8 pages
Following his apparent death at the hands of Hera, Hercules finds himself alone on a duplicate Earth filled with monsters that the goddess created. He imagines that Amadeus Cho has come to help him but realizes that he must escape by himself.
- Chaos War · 1 pages
Publisher’s description
Bigger than THE INFINITY GAUNTLET! More cosmic than ANNIHILATION! Since the end of SECRET INVASION, the CHAOS KING has amassed his army of alien slave gods -- and the time to strike Earth is NOW! Only the greatest Marvel heroes can oppose him -- all led by the newly-returned god of heroes ... HERCULES! But are even his incredible new powers enough to stand against the greatest threat the Marvel Universe has ever seen – a mad god who seeks to destroy Reality itself? PLUS: While thought dead, Hercules was trapped in a dangerous world that threatened his very sanity. Find out the secret of his exile in a special extra story penciled by PRINCE OF POWER’s Reilly Brown!
Characters
Reprinted in
Chaos War (2011), The Mighty World of Marvel (2009)