DC Special Series
#2 - The Original Swamp Thing Saga
([September] 1977)
DC,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1977-06-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893359409
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
The Original Swamp Thing Saga is featured in issues #2, 14, 17, and 20.
On-sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1977. Date given as June 23 in DC Coming Attractions vol. 2 #7 and in house ads in Justice League of America #145 and Super-Team Family #12. Date given as June 21 in Comic Reader #144.
Out with September-dated comics.
On-sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1977. Date given as June 23 in DC Coming Attractions vol. 2 #7 and in house ads in Justice League of America #145 and Super-Team Family #12. Date given as June 21 in Comic Reader #144.
Out with September-dated comics.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing / cover / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]; Un-Men
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover.
This issue has a number “1” on the cover. Other issues in this series just have the year on the cover.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Characters
- Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]
- Synopsis
- Letter from Harlan Ellison praising the creation of Swamp Thing.
Indexer Notes
Includes two small cover reprints of the first two issues of Swamp Thing.
Dark Genesis!
Swamp Thing / comic story / 24 pages
- Job Number
- J-1746
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing [Alec Holland] (intro, origin); Linda Holland; Matt Cable; Ferrett; Bruno; Anton Arcane (cameo, unnamed, hand only); The Conclave
- Synopsis
- When Ferrett and Bruno blow up Alec Holland's lab they create the Swamp Thing. Whey they return to dispose of Alec's wife Linda, the Swamp Thing is there to stop them.
- Reprints
-
from Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #1 (October-November 1972)
-
The Man Who Wanted Forever
Swamp Thing / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson
- Colors
- Bernie Wrightson; Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-1796
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Anton Arcane; the Conclave; Dr. Linda Holland (flashback); Ferrett; Matt Cable; the Patchwork Man [Gregori Arcane]; Swamp Thing [also as Dr. Alec Holland]; the Un-Men [including Cranius; Ophidian]
- Synopsis
- The Swamp Thing undergoes a mystical transferral where he regains his humanity while Arcane obtains the Swamp Thing's body. When Alec Holland finds out that his old body will be used for evil ends he interrupts the enchantment and things return as they were, with Arcane falling to his death.
- Reprints
- from Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #2 (December 1972-January 1973)
-
Out of the Swamp...
text article / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-4820
- Reprints
- from Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #1 (October-November 1972) [text updated]
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Taken from the letters page of the original issue.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Dark Genesis!
Swamp Thing -
3.
The Man Who Wanted Forever
Swamp Thing -
4.
Out of the Swamp...
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- John Censullo
- CTGarry
- Lee Lines
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
- Sean Williams
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