![]() ![]() Swamp Thing fought against all sorts of mad scientists and monsters, most notable his archenemy Dr. ![]() Unfortunately, rivals killed his wife and would have killed him too, were it not for his body melding with the formula and turning him into a giant mucky man. Alec Holland, a brilliant scientist who had developed a new plant growth formula in the bayous of Louisiana. ![]() Wein, meanwhile, wrote the first 13 issues with David Michelinie and Gerry Conway finishing up. ![]() Wrightson drew the first 10 issues Nestor Redondo drew a further 13 issues, the last issue being drawn by Fred Carrillo. But, that issued proved popular enough that Wein and Wrightson returned for a full ongoing comic in 1972. The 1971 comic issue weirdly intersected with, but never copied from, Marvel’s Man-Thing. It’s got a Gothic horror vibe oozing throughout the short page count. Writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson delivered a one-off story about a man in the early 20th Century who became a swamp creature in a chemical explosion and longed to reunite with his lost love. Swamp Thing began in a single issue of DC’s House of Secrets anthology. Over time, Swampy has intersected with major portions of the greater DC Comics universe and even joined the Justice League…Dark. Right from his beginning, Swamp Thing was an outsider, in some ways both a god and a monster. A dark horror story that feeds into the DC movie and TV universe but which has a completely different tone. ![]()
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