![]() ![]() ![]() A living embodiment of the power and terror in our environment, the Swamp Thing protects both humanity and the environment-usually from each other. 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. 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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