Hercules suddenly appears on the streets of New York and promptly gets work as a vaudevillian strongman. When his agent is killed by the "lion of the underworld", Leo Nymia (playing on the Nemean Lion, one of the champion’s twelve labors), he kills Nymia and wipes out his gang.; World War II has lasted to the year 2039 and is thus called the Hundred Year War. It has laid waste to civilizations, and much of humanity is reduced to a barbaric state and conquered by Mongol warlord Gustave Ritter. With a small band set out to rebuilding civilization and science in an underground city on the Isle of Right (an island in the Pacific that they settle), Doc Strong uses one of his inventions: a gun that solidifies shadows, to immobilize those that are attached or touching the shadows.; A masked group of men have been terrorizing the countryside by whipping people to death, and The Fox intends to stop them in their tracks. When Ruth is kidnapped by the Night Riders, he is inspired to become the hero while listening to the lyrics of a tune singing about a fox.; To atone for the death of a tiger cub, a witch doctor must offer a human sacrifice, and this time it must be a white boy. Tyrone Gorman was offered as a living sacrifice to tigers in the jungles of Malay, but, instead, the tigress Malma raises him and continues his jungle adventures even though he is unaware that he is an heir to a fortune back home.; Bring in Homicide Hogan dead or alive, or you loose your new police whistles.