The Triumph of Hercules complicated by her evil relative Milo, who has murdered her father the king but has tricked her into thinking it was someone else because she trusts him too much. Milo tricks Hercules into killing his friend, for which he is punished by his father Jove (Jupiter/Zeus) who takes away his enormous strength, because he has misused it. Milo is conspiring with his sorceress mother to take the throne for himself. Now only as strong as a mortal man, Hercules is overpowered when he tries to rescue the princess Ate (pronounced Ah-tay) from Milo and is then accused of being a
Jove Books published in the 1970s were the series of historical novels written by John Jakes, the Kent Family Chronicles, beginning with "The Bastard" (1974), which were well-timed for popular interest in the U.S. Revolutionary War and the bicentennial celebration of independence. More modest or more critical than commercial successes published in the decade included "Man on Fire: A Novel of Revolution" by Bruce Douglas Reeves (1971) and several novels by Barry N. Malzberg. A series of "crossover" books, bridging prose fiction and comics, was the eight-volume "Weird Heroes" series of anthologies and novels (1975–77), where new superheroes and pulp-magazine-style adventure heroes