Swamp Thing
#1
(October-November 1972)
DC,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-08-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (credited) (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #87.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as
WRIGHTSON) - Inks
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as WRIGHTSON)
- Colors
- Bernie Wrightson
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (logo design)
- Job Number
- J-1770
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing; Linda Holland; Ferrett
- Reprints
-
in Mi Gran Aventura - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1975 series) #1 [recolored] -
in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #1 (3ème trimestre 1974) -
in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #1/1983 (uke 5 1983) -
in Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis (DC, 1992 series) (1991 [March 1992]) - in Swamp Thing l'intégrale (Delcourt, 2004 series) #1 - Genèse (février 2004) [noir et blanc [black and white]]
- in Secret of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2005 series) (November 2005)
- in DC Comics Classics Library: Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2009 series) ([July] 2009)
- in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2012 series) (2011 [February 2012])
- in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #74 - Swamp Thing 2 ([Juli 2016])
- in Artifact Edition (IDW, 2014 series) #6 - Bernie Wrightson (October 2017)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([December] 2018)
- in Dollar Comics: Swamp Thing 1 (DC, 2019 series) #1 ([December] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Colorist credit from the letter page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4. Saladino logo per Todd Klein's blog.
Dark Genesis!
Swamp Thing / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson
- Colors
- Bernie Wrightson
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- J-1746
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The darkness cries--a long, mournful wail that writhes through the gnarled cypress branches like a breath of Hades' wind...
- 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.
- Awards
- Reprints
- in La Creature des Marais (Editions du Fromage, 1977 series) #1
- in Mi Gran Aventura - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1975 series) #1
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #1 (3ème trimestre 1974) [N&B [B&W]]
-
in Serietidningen (Williams Förlags AB, 1975 series) #1/1975 ([september] 1975) which is reprinted -
in Mundo de Aventuras Especial (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1975 series) #9 (Julho de 1976) [black & white] - in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #2 - The Original Swamp Thing Saga ([September] 1977)
-
in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #258 (20 Januar 1981) - in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #1 (1er trimestre 1982)
- in Swamp Thing (Tor Books, 1982 series) (April 1982)
- in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #1/1983 (uke 5 1983)
-
in Heróis em Ação (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #2 (Agosto 1984) [páginas 2-14 e 16-24 da história original. Reduzido o quadro da página 21 com inserção dos dois primeiros da página 22 abaixo. Suprimidos o terceiro quadrinho da página 22 e o último quadrinho da página 24.] - in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #1 (July 1986) which is reprinted
-
in Die großen Phantastic-Comics (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #57 - Sumpfding - Ein Leben für die Ewigkeit - in Swamp Thing (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1990 series) #1 - Das Ding aus den Sümpfen (Dezember 1990)
- in Swamp Thing l'intégrale (Delcourt, 2004 series) #1 - Genèse (février 2004) [noir et blanc [black and white]]
- in Horror (Dečje novine, 1986 series) #17 (August 1988.)
- in Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis (DC, 1992 series) (1991 [March 1992])
- in Secret of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2005 series) (November 2005)
- in DC Comics Classics Library: Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2009 series) ([July] 2009)
- in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2012 series) (2011 [February 2012])
- in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #74 - Swamp Thing 2 ([Juli 2016])
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([December] 2018)
- in Dollar Comics: Swamp Thing 1 (DC, 2019 series) #1 ([December] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4; letters credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #5.
Origin of Swamp Thing.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Things / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-1823
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Welcome to the world of Swamp Thing, a creature less than a man, but more than a monster.
- Characters
- Swamp Thing
- Synopsis
- Includes bios of Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, with caricatures by Wrightson.
- Reprints
- in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #2 - The Original Swamp Thing Saga ([September] 1977) [text updated]
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing -
1.
Dark Genesis!
Swamp Thing -
2.
["Welcome to the world of Swamp Thing, a creature less than a man, but more than a monster."]
Swamp Things
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