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Issue: Roots of the Swamp Thing #1
Publication Date: July 1986
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/11/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.85 CAD
$2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #26.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; Baxter paper interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: limited series
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Re-Presenting the Origin of the Creature Part 1 of 5

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Penciller(s): Bernie Wrightson (painting, signed)
Inker(s): Bernie Wrightson (painting, signed)
Colorist(s): Bernie Wrightson (painting, signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Swamp Thing
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wrap-around cover.
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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Dark Genesis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Bernie Wrightson
Inker(s): Bernie Wrightson
Colorist(s): Tatjana Wood
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (original)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Swamp Thing
Character(s): Swamp Thing [Alec Holland] (introduction, origin)
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In Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #1 published December 1990
as Dunkle Genese [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #1 published October 1972
was Dark Genesis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
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The Man Who Wanted Forever

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Bernie Wrightson
Inker(s): Bernie Wrightson
Colorist(s): Tatjana Wood
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (original)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Swamp Thing
Character(s): Anton Arcane; the Conclave; Dr. Linda Holland (flashback); Ferrett; Matt Cable; the Patchwork Man [Gregori Arcane]; Swamp Thing [also as Dr. Alec Holland]; the Un-Men [Cranius; Ophidian]
Synopsis: The Swamp Thing undergoes a mystical transferral where he regains his humanity while Arcane obtains the Swamp Thing's body. When Alec Holland finds out that his old body will be used for evil ends he interrupts the enchantment and things return as they were, with Arcane falling to his death.
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In Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #1 published December 1990
as Der Mann, der ewig leben wollte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #2 published December 1972
was The Man Who Wanted Forever [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: Synopsis, characters, and letters credit from index to Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #2.
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Len Wein

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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
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Disclose Notes: Photo and short biography of Len Wein.

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