(April 1982)
Tor Books,
1982 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 1.95 USD
- Pages
- 164
- On-sale Date
- 1982-05-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- ISBN
-
0-523-49012-7
- Barcode
- 0709920019549012
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (original editor); ? (collection editor)
- Color
- color covers, black and white interiors
- Binding
- softcover
- Publishing Format
- collected edition
Issue Notes
Tor 49-012-7.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. Registration number TX940557.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. Registration number TX940557.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (logo design); typeset
- Job Number
- J-3372
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]
- Reprints
- from Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #9 (March-April 1974)
-
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Script
- Michael Uslan
- Letters
- typeset
Chapter 1: Dark Genesis
Swamp Thing / comic story / 46 pages
- 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. When 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Origin of Swamp Thing.
Letters credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #5.
Chapter 2: The Man Who Wanted Forever
Swamp Thing / comic story / 46 pages
- 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #5.
Chapter 3: Patchworkman!
Swamp Thing / comic story / 64 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as Berni Wrightson)
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as Berni Wrightson)
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Abigail Arcane; Anton Arcane (flashback); the Conclave; Matt Cable; the Patchwork Man [Gregori Arcane]; Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]
- Synopsis
- In the Balkans the Swamp Thing meets the Patchwork Man on a mission to save his daughter Abigail Arcane.
- Reprints
- from Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #3 (February-March 1973)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #5.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing -
1.
Introduction
-
2.
Chapter 1: Dark Genesis
Swamp Thing -
3.
Chapter 2: The Man Who Wanted Forever
Swamp Thing -
4.
Chapter 3: Patchworkman!
Swamp Thing
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- Boris Ammerlaan
- John Censullo
- Jim Stangas
- Dan Stevenson
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