Framed by a story about his wife Meg discovering the adult Hercules's high school yearbook, HERCULES: ZERO TO HERO recounts the growing pains of the young superman. In "Hercules and the First Day of School," Zeus orders a classical education for his son. In addition to trigonometry, Hercules must contend with snobby Adonis. But those problems pale when a hungry cyclops steals his I.D. card and attacks the school looking for a hero to eat.

In "Hercules and the Grim Avenger," Hercules helps Theseus fight the Minotaur. But that doesn't make him a hero with Adonis, whose rudeness makes Hercules complain to his unsympathetic father. In "Hercules and the Visit From Zeus," the King of the Gods turns himself into a teenager to prove adolescence is a cinch. But while Zeus struggles to win at dodge ball, Hades plots to kill his temporarily mortal brother.