The Herculoids #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe Herculoids #7 occupies a pivotal position in this Dynamite series by turning a self-contained monster-of-the-week threat — the Destroyer Ants, a creature type that traces back to the original 1967 animated series — into a story engine for genuine world-building. Where earlier issues focused on repelling external invaders, this issue begins to answer questions the cartoon never touched: how Amzot's extraordinary ecosystem evolved and how the human family of Zandor, Tara, and Dorno came to be bound to it. That pivot from pure action to science-fantasy mythology is a creative milestone for the run, elevating the property beyond nostalgia toward an original ongoing narrative. It also represents the longest-form comic treatment the Herculoids had ever received, surpassing their scattered appearances in Gold Key, Marvel, and DC anthology titles that stretched from 1968 through 1999.
In "Enter The Overmind!", the ancient ark ship crash-lands on Amzot, awakening the Encephalon—a vast, fluid-bound mind carrying the collective wisdom of a fallen empire. As the Encephalon summons the Destroyer Ants to free the ship, they seize Dorno, transforming him into the Overmind, the living voice of the Ancients. Written by Tom Sniegoski and illustrated by Craig Rousseau, with colors by Omi Remalante Jr. and letters by Taylor Esposito, this 2025 Dynamite Entertainment issue features a striking cover by Francesco Mattina.
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The Herculoids began as an Alex Toth–designed Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon that debuted on CBS on September 9, 1967, commissioned by Fred Silverman as one of three action-adventure series built on the success of Space Ghost. The original 18 episodes were produced for a single season, rerun through 1969, briefly revived in 1981 as part of the Space Stars block, and the characters appeared sporadically in comics — Gold Key's Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes (1968–69), Marvel's TV Stars #3 (1978), and DC's Cartoon Network Presents (1997–99) — before Dynamite announced their first dedicated Herculoids comic series in October 2024, with issue #1 arriving February 19, 2025. Writer Tom Sniegoski and artist Craig Rousseau, a longtime creative partnership, were tapped for the project, with Rousseau citing the cartoon as a personal childhood favorite. The series was positioned by Dynamite as a follow-up to their well-received Space Ghost revival, continuing a broader effort to restore Hanna-Barbera science-fantasy properties to ongoing comics.
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- Published by Dynamite Entertainment; on sale August 20, 2025; 32 pages, full color, rated Teen.
- Written by Tom Sniegoski; art by Craig Rousseau — the same creative team that handled every issue of the series from #1 through its conclusion.
- Cover artists for this issue: Francesco Mattina (Cover A), Joseph Michael Linsner (Cover B), Bjorn Barends (Cover C), and Kyle Hotz (Cover D).
- Central threat is the Destroyer Ants — a giant insect enemy whose name is a direct callback to the original animated series episode 'Destroyer Ants' (Season 1, 1967), making this a deliberate homage to the cartoon's own creature roster.
- Issue #7 begins revealing the backstory of Amzot's ecosystem and the origin of the Herculoids' bond with the planet — narrative ground the original TV series never explored.
- The larger series arc involves the Klaturians, an ancient conquering race identified in subsequent issues as Amzot's original inhabitants, whose sleeping remnant power awakens beneath the planet — an entirely new mythology invented for the Dynamite run.
- This Dynamite series is the first ongoing, dedicated Herculoids comic book series; prior comics appearances (Gold Key 1968–69, Marvel 1978, DC 1997–99) were all anthology features, not standalone issues.
- The original Herculoids TV property was created and designed by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera, debuting September 9, 1967 on CBS — a creative lineage the Dynamite run explicitly honors.
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