Six booklets of 32 pp. each; color. The Beowulf storyline is the only major content.

Beowulf hears from a Shaper (wandering poet-sorcerer) about Hrothgar's troubles and resolves to help. Jealous Unferth, afraid that the approaching hero will humiliate him, casts a spell of illusion that sends Beowulf and his companions (sidekick Wiglaf and warrior woman Nan-Zee) on a digressive adventure to prevent them from reaching Heorot; but Satan overrides Unferth's illusion, brings Beowulf and his companions to Heorot, then sends their group (now also including Unferth) on a different quest that they must fulfill before returning to fight Grendel. Grendel, impatient with Satan's toying, demands to meet Beowulf and is allowed to, but Satan interrupts the fight and returns Beowulf to his wandering quest. Satan makes Dracula his heir in lieu of Grendel; Grendel's mother resolves to put Grendel on the throne of hell, and the enraged Grendel kills Satan.

A debt to Gardner's Grendel (1971) for the concept of Grendel—as well as influence by William Golding's Lord of the Flies—is acknowledged in an explanation of the feature's development in issue 2, p. 31.

The six issues are as follows:

1. The Curse of Castle Hrothgar (May 1975)
2. The Slave-Maid of Satan (July 1975)
3. Man-Apes and Magic (September 1975)
4. Valley in the Shadow of Death (November 1975)
5. Chariot of the Stars (January 1976)
6. Labyrinth of the Grotto Minotaur (March 1976)

The story ends abruptly—issue 6 concludes with Beowulf's statement that they must get to Heorot for his planned fight with Grendel—but there is an annotation "The End" where each previous issue had had a teaser for the next. Beowulf's participation in the storyline of DC Comics' Wonder Woman issues 20-23 (2008), "Ends of the Earth," can be read as a conclusion to the story left unfinished here, except that Satan is apparently dead at the end of issue 6.

• Chris Bishop, Medievalist Comics and the American Century (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016), 145–61 and 209–10 (chapter “Beowulf: Dragon Slayer [1975]”).

• Catherine A. M. Clarke, “Re-placing Masculinity: The DC Comics Beowulf Series and Its Context, 1975–6,” in Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, ed. David Clark and Nicholas Perkins (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), 165–82.

• Kathleen Forni, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (New York: Routledge, 2018), chap. 5.

• María José Gómez Calderón, “Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings,” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 55 (2007): 107–27.

MO2 has a minor inaccuracy, stating that the character Nan-Zee is a "substitute for Wiglaf." Wiglaf is present in the story.

BAM.