DC Comics Presents #85 [Direct]
(September 1985)

DC, 1978 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-05-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #16.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superman; Swamp Thing / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rick Veitch (signed)
Inks
Rick Veitch (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero; horror-suspense
Characters
Superman; Swamp Thing
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The Jungle Line (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman; Swamp Thing / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Moore
Pencils
Rick Veitch
Inks
Al Williamson
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
S-4639
Genre
superhero; horror-suspense
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Swamp Thing; Lana Lang; Dr. Everett; Flash [Barry Allen] (cameo); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Jimmy Olsen (cameo); Bloodmorel (a fungus)
Synopsis
Clark comes in contact with a fungus from Krypton that will eventually kill him. Driving south due to his powers intermittently failing, he crashes in a swamp and stumbles upon the one creature that might help him-- Swamp Thing.
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Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Pair Mail / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Laurie Rozakis (credited)
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-4669

Indexer Notes

Letters from Ron Notarius, Kevin T. Brown, Stephen Scott Beau Smith, David Pulleyblank, Sheldon A. Wiebe, Zeb Weese, Dale Coe, Craig Paeth, and Adam Burchess.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Superman; Swamp Thing
  2. 1. The Jungle Line
    Superman; Swamp Thing
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Pair Mail
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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  • Chris Boyko
  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Gregg Whitmore
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