The Saga of Swamp Thing
#1
[Newsstand]
(May 1982)
DC,
1982 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-02-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893171505
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Len Wein (editor); Carl Gafford (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #199.
This issue is a variant of The Saga of Swamp Thing (DC, 1982 series) #1 [Direct].
This issue is a variant of The Saga of Swamp Thing (DC, 1982 series) #1 [Direct].
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Tom Yeates (signed as
T. Yeates [one line]) - Inks
- Tom Yeates (signed as T. Yeates [one line])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-873
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing; Casey Clancy
- Reprints
-
in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #1 (mars 1983) -
in La Cosa del Pantano (Zinco, 1984 series) #1 (Diciembre 1984) -
in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017) - in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([April] 2021)
-
- Keywords
- axes; pitchforks; torches
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What Peace There May Be in Silence
Swamp Thing / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Martin Pasko (credited)
- Pencils
- Tom Yeates (credited)
- Inks
- Tom Yeates (credited)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited as Costanza)
- Job Number
- J-8009
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing; Casey Clancy; Harry Kay; Alec Holland (flashback); Linda Holland (flashback); Matt Cable (flashback); Mr. Ferret (flashback); Abigail Arcane (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- After reflecting on the circumstances that created the Swamp Thing, the creature encounters a young girl accused of being a witch and takes her under his protection. Meanwhile, a stranger in town is looking for Swamp Thing and reporting back to the people who sent him.
- Reprints
-
in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1982 (uke 43 1982) - in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #1 (mars 1983)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017)
- in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([April] 2021)
-
- Keywords
- North Carolina
Indexer Notes
Origin recap.
...In Shadowed Depths
The Phantom Stranger / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Bruce Jones (credited)
- Pencils
- Dan Spiegle (credited)
- Inks
- Dan Spiegle (credited)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (credited)
- Letters
- Phil Felix (credited)
- Job Number
- J-8089
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Phantom Stranger; Reverend James Foster; Mama Ballou
- Synopsis
- A criminal pastor has duped one of his followers into acting as a drug courier until the Stranger intervenes.
- Reprints
- in La Créature du Marais (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #1 (mars 1983)
-
in Heróis em Ação (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #4 (Outubro 1984)
-
- Keywords
- drugs; heroin; roaches; voodoo
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing -
1.
What Peace There May Be in Silence
Swamp Thing -
2.
...In Shadowed Depths
The Phantom Stranger
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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