Since then, more writers worked on the titles and Swamp Thing even start fighting alongside other DC heroes.Ĭollects the original short story “Swamp Thing” from The House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing #1-13, featuring all of Wein and Wrightson’s original run on the series and including art by Nestor Redondo, Michael Wm.
It was almost canceled when Alan Moore became the main writer and made it a real creative success, rewriting the mythology of the character and expanding his powers and reach. When he became the star of a Wes Craven movie in 1982, a second series was launched. At first, this anthropomorphic mound of vegetable matter was fighting to protect his swamp home, but he eventually broadens his scope to protect the environment in general, and humanity from various supernatural or terrorist threats, becoming a DC Superhero in his own way.ĭuring the 1970s, Swamp Thing had his first ongoing series, but it didn’t last. The first one was created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson in House of Secrets #92 (July 1971) in a stand-alone horror story.
There is more than one Swamp Thing, the swamp monster/Elemental of the DC Universe (not Marvel’s Man Thing).
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