 ("Wonder Woman" #1, 1942).Thus, in his first appearance, Hercules has already finished his heroic deeds and has ascended to the status of a god.The same issue reiterates Hercules' deception and subsequent enslavement of the Amazons, this time being said to have been spurred on by the God of War, Mars, whose swordsmen "slew their weaker brothers and plundered them" and sold women as slaves "cheaper than cattle."