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SWAMP THING #1
Cover Date: October-November 1972
Cover Price: $0.20
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Cover Credits:
Art: Bernie Wrightson
Colors: Bernie Wrightson
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Credits:
| Story | Len Wein |
| Art | Bernie Wrightson |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | Bernie Wrightson |
| Editing | Joe Orlando |
Feature Character(s):
- Swamp Thing (first appearance; "Alec Holland"; see second Comment)
Supporting Character(s):
- Alec Holland (first appearance; dies)
- Linda Holland (first appearance; dies)
- Matthew Cable (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- Conclave (first appearance)
- "Mister E" (first appearance; Nathan Ellery, leader of the Conclave)
- Ferrett (first appearance; Maxwell Ferrett AKA Len Bernard, full name in issue #6; an employee of the Conclave; dies)
- Bruno (first appearance; an employee of the Conclave; dies)
- third Conclave employee (first appearance)
- Anton Arcane (first appearance; not fully seen, identified next issue; last chronological appearance in flashback in issue #3)
- the Un-Men (first appearance; identified next issue)
Location(s):
- The bayou outside Houma, LA
Comment(s):
- First appearance of the ongoing character of Swamp Thing, the original "Alex Olsen" from House of Secrets Vol. 1 #92 (June-July 1971): "Swamp Thing" was later revealed as his predecessor
- The title character Swamp Thing believed he was Alec Holland for years before it was revealed he never had been Holland and in fact was a plant elemental as seen in Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 (February 1984): "The Anatomy Lesson."
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Special Series #2 (September 1977)
Solicitation:
- While working on a restorative formula that can make forests out of deserts in the Louisiana swamps, scientist Alec Holland is killed by a bomb set off by Mr. E., who wants the formula. Shortly thereafter, a humanoid plant being rises from the swamp--the Swamp Thing!