Hermes

HERMES

Real Name: Hermes

Class: God (Olympian Gods)

Occupation: God of messengers, thieves and medicine

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Aphrodite (half-sister), Apollo (half-brother), Ares (half-brother), Artemis (half-sister), Children of Ares (half-niblings), Coeus (great-uncle), Crius (great-uncle), Cronus (grandfather), Deimos (half-nephew), Demeter (aunt), Dione (half-sister), Dionysus (half-brother), Eileithyia (half-sister), Eris (half-sister), Eros (half-brother), Graces (half-sisters), Hades (uncle), Harmonia (half-niece), Hebe (half-sister), Helen of Troy (half-sister), Hephaestus (half-brother), Hera (aunt), Hercules (half-brother), Hestia (aunt), Horae (half-sisters), Hyperion (great-uncle), Iapetus (great-uncle), Lyta (half-niece), Maia (mother), Mnemosyne (great-aunt), Muses (half-sisters), Ouranos (great-grandfather, deceased), Pan (son), Pandia (half-sister), Persephone (half-sister), Phobos (half-nephew), Phoebe (great-aunt), Poseidon (uncle), Zeus (father), Cassandra Sandmark (Wonder Girl, half-sister)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mount Olympus

First Appearance: (comics) Wonder Woman I #1 (June, 1942)

Powers: Like all Olympian Gods Hermes was immortal and possessed superhuman strength and durability. Hermes could travel at superspeeds and was an expert in medicine, wielding the healing Cauduceus.

History: (Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17, Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #1 (fb)) - The destruction of the Old Gods sent a godwave from the source that struck Earth. The gods of the Greeks would be born from this godwave and usher in the Third World. The Titans Kronos and Rhea birthed the first six Olympian Gods, who rebelled against them and cast them from power. The Olympians were worshipped by the Greeks, who built up a mythology around their gods.

(DC Comics Presents #41) - Hercules decided to invade Paradise Island, and enlisted Hermes, promising him the hand of Wonder Woman if they succeeded. Hermes used his swiftness to steal Hippolyta s belt of strength, enabling Hercules to bind the Amazons. When Wonder Woman arrived she was angry, and unimpressed by the idea of Hermes having won her. She told Hermes she d willingly become his lover if he could best her in a race for the belt and he accepted. Wonder Woman defeated him, and he returned to Olympus in disgrace after handing her back the belt. Hercules was furious, and challenged her to a feat of strength. Wonder Woman threw him in a fall of wrestling, and he too left the island in bitter defeat.

(Spectre III #58) - When God disappeared form Heaven, Spectre sought information from other pantheons, including the Olympians. Zeus thought he was hubristic to see the Olympians as less than the Judeo-Christian creator, and told him that all divinity was the manifestation of the godwave after the passing of the Old Gods. Zeus told him their was a disturbance in the Source, the creative power all gods acknowledged. Ares told Spectre to begone, and Spectre warned him his mission of vengeance could one day see him calling Ares to task for the blood he'd spilled.

Comments: Adapted to comics by William Moulton Marston.

Hermes received profiles in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17 and Who’s Who Update ‘87 #4 under the Olympian Gods entry.

In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths DCU there were separate versions of Hermes on Earth-1 and Earth-2.

Hermes was part of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

Hermes had a cameo in JLA #90.