By my father's beard...the power, the strength I feel surging through me! Since the end of the Chaos War...I feared I might never feel so close to my former divinity again! More powerful than the strongest draught is the sensation...I'm capable of anything...everything! 
Appearing in "Spider-Story (Part 1 of 2)"
Featured Characters:
- Hercules (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Max Modell
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Mentioned)
- Jackal (Miles Warren) (Mentioned)
- Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Mentioned)
- Lizard (Curt Connors) (Mentioned)
- Silenus (Mentioned)
- Bacchae (Mentioned)
- Coltrane (Only in flashback)
- God (Invoked)
- Nyame (Vision or hallucination)
- Cerberus (Invoked)
- Amadeus Cho (Referenced)
- Zeus (Vision or hallucination)
- Hera (Vision or hallucination)
- Hebe (Vision or hallucination)
- Apollo (Vision or hallucination)
- Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (Vision or hallucination)
- Hobgoblin (Phil Urich) (Vision or hallucination)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Battery Park
- Financial District
- Upper West Side (Only in flashback)
- Central Park West (Only in flashback)
- Midtown (Only in flashback)
- Chrysler Building (Only in flashback)
- Brooklyn (Only in flashback)
- Carroll Gardens (Only in flashback)
- Athena Bar & Grill (Only in flashback)
- Carroll Gardens (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Greece (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Olympus (Mentioned)
- Hades (Mentioned)
Items:
- Spider-Virus
- Gambit's Staff
- Wolverine's Suit
- Adamantium (on Wolverine's claws)
- Sword of Peleus (Main story and flashback)
Events:
- Chaos War (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Spider-Story (Part 1 of 2)"
The Greek owners/operators of the bar where Hercules works have fled the dangers of New York City and returned to Greece, leaving Hercules in charge. After a while he befriends an elderly African man named A. Nancy who loves stories. One night Herc is bitten by a bed bug that gives him spider powers, which he uses to fight crime. He ends up fighting the X-Men who are in town still dealing with those who were turned into lizard men by the Lizard. It was shown that Hercules ended up getting spider powers where a tenant at the bar he worked at has been having bedbug problems.
Solicit Synopsis
You loved it when Herc dressed up as Thor, but can you handle the senses-shattering debut of... THE INCREDIBLE SPIDER-HERC?!?! And versus... THE X-MEN??? Though he is the newly self-appointed protector of Brooklyn, when a rash of unusual occurrences begin breaking out in Manhattan, Hercules finds himself ""infested"" with Spider-Powers of his own. Unfortunately, our web-slinging former demigod soon finds himself under the thrall of the insidious intelligence behind Spider Island and in a duel to the death against fellow champions The X-Men. Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente join up with artist June Brigman to deliver a pulse-pounding, wall-crawling [!!!] adventure with Marvel's lovable lug, HERC!
Notes
- The X-Men last chronologically appeared in X-Men (Vol. 3) #10.
Trivia
The Cover is a homage to Amazing Spider-Man #100