The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... the Swamp Thing

Get the dirt on DC Comic’s premier supernatural hero, as we journey to the bayou to meet the Avatar of The Green himself, the Swamp Thing!

In the swamps of Louisiana, botanist Alec Holland is killed in an accident while working on a 'bio-restorative formula'. Fusing with his formula and the vegetation of the swamp, Alec is resurrected as a shambling humanoid mass of plant matter. Together with his girlfriend, the mad scientist's daughter Abigail Arcane, Alec protects the environment and fights supernatural threats as the Swamp Thing.

Updated September 24, 2024
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Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book one
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
Before Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book The Swamp Thing. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic...
Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book two
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
Created out of the Swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world's self-destruction. Alan Moore took the Swamp Thing to new heights in the 1980s with his unique narrative approach. His...
Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book three
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
Continuing the hardcover collections of Alan Moore's award-winning run on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, this third volume is brimming with visceral horrors including underwater vampires, a werewolf with an unusual curse, the hideous madman called Nukeface. Best of all, this volume features the comics...
Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book four
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on The Saga of The Swamp Thing, this fourth volume brings Swamp Thing's quest for self-discovery with the mystic John Constantine to its shattering conclusion. A harbinger of doom has been...
Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book five
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, this fifth volume begins as Swamp Thing returns from his sojourn to hell, only to learn that his girlfriend Abby is being persecuted for their "unnatural relations." When she...
Saga of the Swamp Thing. Book Six
Moore, Alan
Paper Book
This collection of issues #57-64 of SWAMP THING begins across the galaxy, where the Swamp Thing's consciousness has been hurled. Trying to find his way back to Earth, Swamp Thing stops over on Thanagar, home of Hawkman; Rann, home of Adam Strange; and encounters the Green Lantern of a world of...
Wonder Woman and the Justice League Dark : the witching hour
Tynion, James, IV
Paper Book
The future of magic in the DC Universe is rewritten in Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark- The Witching Hour, an epic adventure by New York Times best-selling writer James Tynion IV and artists including Jesus Merino, Emanuela Lupacchino and Alvaro Martinez Bueno. ...

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