Classics Illustrated Junior #555

In "The 3 Golden Apples," Hercules faces his most cunning trial yet: retrieving three enchanted fruits from the guarded Garden of the Hesperides. After tracking down the shape-shifting Old Man of the Sea—whom he must hold fast through countless transformations—he learns the garden’s secret. With Atlas, the Titan burdened by the heavens, the hero makes a daring pact: he’ll bear the sky while Atlas fetches the apples. But when Atlas refuses to take the weight back, Hercules outwits him with a clever ruse, securing the prize and setting off with the golden fruit in hand.

In "The Boy and the Filberts," a boy finds himself stuck with his hand in a jar after grabbing a handful of filberts, a small but stubborn predicament that leads to a quiet moment of wisdom. When an old man offers a simple solution—letting go of half the nuts—he leaves the boy with a gentle reminder: "Half is better than none at all."