Swamp Thing
#5
(July-August 1973)
DC,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-04-05
- 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 #95.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as
WRIGHTSON) - Inks
- Bernie Wrightson (signed as WRIGHTSON)
- Colors
- Bernie Wrightson ?
- Job Number
- J-3127
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Rebecca Ravenwind; Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]
- Reprints
-
in Mi Gran Aventura - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1975 series) #5 -
in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #4 (2ème trimestre 1975) -
in Serietidningen (Williams Förlags AB, 1975 series) #1/1976 ([januari] 1976) [Beskuret och med ny färgläggning] -
in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #17 - Original Swamp Thing Saga (Summer 1979 (September 1979)) -
in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #261 (10 Februar 1981) - in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #3 - La dernière des sorcières (juillet 1982)
-
in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1983 (uke 48 1983), #8/1983 (uke 48 1983) - in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #3 (September 1986)
- 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 Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([December] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
August on cover. Signature dated 72-73.
The Last of the Ravenwind Witches!
Swamp Thing / comic story / 22.67 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson
- Colors
- Bernie Wrightson ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- J-3049
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was Larabee on night watch who first noticed the stowaway leaning on the guardrail, his topcoat bundled tightly against the brisk pre-dawn chill...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing [Alec Holland] (origin recap); Linda Holland (flashback, cameo); Rebecca Ravenwood; Timothy Ravenwood; Jocko; Gideon; Smith
- Synopsis
- Swamp Thing is rescued from the ocean by Rebecca Ravenwood, who is fleeing her small town after being accused of being a witch.
- Reprints
- in La Creature des Marais (Editions du Fromage, 1977 series) #1
- in Mi Gran Aventura - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1975 series) #5
- in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #4 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Serietidningen (Williams Förlags AB, 1975 series) #1/1976 ([januari] 1976) which is reprinted
- in Gigant (Semic, 1976 series) #8/1983 (1983)
- in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #17 - Original Swamp Thing Saga (Summer 1979 (September 1979)) which is reprinted
- in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #392 (21 Februar 1984)
-
in Selecções (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1961 series) #223 (Março de 1980) - in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #3 - La dernière des sorcières (juillet 1982) [Moins 0,67 page [Minus 0.67 page]]
- in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1983 (uke 48 1983)
- in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #392 (21 Februar 1984)
- in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #3 (September 1986) which is reprinted
-
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 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 Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([December] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
The last page is 2/3 of a page. Letters credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #16.
The Day Bill Told Off His Boss
CIE - Cleveland Institute of Electronics / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Get in here, Bill!
- Characters
- Bill; Mr. Bemis (boss)
Indexer Notes
Fumetti-style ad for the CIE - Cleveland Institute of Electronics.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Things / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-3103
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Len, Berni, and Joe, The only word I can use to describe Swamp Thing is--fantastic!
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Jim Stone, Dave Lofvers, Dave Huztley, Mike Noller and Eric Heyl.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing -
1.
The Last of the Ravenwind Witches!
Swamp Thing -
2.
The Day Bill Told Off His Boss
CIE - Cleveland Institute of Electronics -
3.
["Dear Len, Berni, and Joe, The only word I can use to describe Swamp Thing is--fantastic!"]
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