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New Mutants

A fill-in issue. Most of this story is a flashback to events that probably occurred between issues #35 and #36 (since this seems to be the New Mutants' first meeting with Hercules, before issue #40).

Magma tells Empath about how she met her god: when she once doubted her faith, Hercules visited her, but she did not believe he was real until he saved a boy from a fire and told him stories all night until he died, a hero, like Jason and the Argonauts.

Writer: Chris Claremont; Letterer: Tom Orzechowski; Inker: Josef Rubinstein; Penciller: Terry Shoemaker; Penciller: Louis Williams; Colorer: Gregory Wright;