(OK Comics 001, 1940)
"The Further Adventures of Ulysses" is a feature that posits that Ulysses/ Odysseus, after a gruelling twenty year journey home from Troy to Ithaca, immediately got bored and left again upon hearing a rumour that one of his men had been left behind on the island of the Cyclopes and still lived. This is a fun idea and very in keeping with both the lifestyles of the Greek heroes and a particular 1940s idea of manly disdain for settled domesticity. The only problem is that the one extant TFAOU story is all retellings of the greatest hits, from the return to Cyclops Island to Clea here, who is Circe in all but name.
Specifically, Clea lives on an island and uses her magic wand to turn humans into beasts - Ulysses' crew here all end up as tigers, so they must have had better table manners than the last bunch who all turned into pigs - and does not either provide Ulysses with information on how to enter the underworld or have between 2 and 5 children with him.
Clea almost gets away with it too, but that meddling Mercury gives Ulysses a sprig of protective ivy and her weirdly long wand has no effect on him. Frankly embarrassing, Clea.
BONUS: Just want to highlight this giant two-headed monster lady as the only novel concept in the adventure.
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