![]() I’m revising as I continue to navigate the list. NOTE: With the character’s on-again, off-again publication history, combined with the publisher’s habit of re-packaging issues in different configurations, there isn’t a linear track to follow for these collections. A living embodiment of the power and terror in our environment, the Swamp Thing protects both humanity and the environment-usually from each other. The Protector of the Green is kindhearted, but mysterious and deadly when nature is at stake. All of them owe a debt to Theodore Sturgeon’s short story “It!”, published in the August 1940 issue of Unknown.Ī muck-encrusted mockery of a man, the monstrous Swamp Thing can control all plant life, from fungus on stale bread to forests of towering oaks. Swamp Thing is a dark and tragic figure from DC Comics that, while not as famous as most members of the Justice League, still has a long comic book history and a well-defined lore. ![]() However, it’s but one of several “muck monster” characters that have populated comic books over the years-a list which also includes The Heap, Solomon Grundy, Man-Thing, and more. Created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, DC Comics’ Swamp Thing made its first appearance in House of Secrets #92 in 1971. ![]()
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