 He is one of the Lords of Magic and possesses superhuman strength.In the newest continuity, Hercules is reintroduced in the pages of Aquaman  as a maddened prisoner alongside the monstrous children descended from the Titans called the Giant Born.It was revealed that, thousands of years ago, the son of Zeus sacrificed himself so that Atlan, King of Atlantis of the bygone era, could trap them within a hellish penal dimension opened using the Maelstrom,an extra-dimensional translocation gateway which enabled the Atlanteans of old to traverse the world as well as to other worlds.