At DC, With EC veteran Joe Orlando as editor, House of Mystery and sister title House of Secrets returned to short story anthology formats and gothic mystery scenarios, taking a lead from such TV successes as Twilight Zone and Rod Serlingâ€™s Night Gallery. It should also be remembered that Skywald (a very minor player with big aspirations) released a black-&-white magazine in their Warren Comics knock-off line entitled The Heap in the Autumn of 1971.įor whatever reason, by the end of the 1960s superhero comics had started another steep sales decline, once again succumbing to a genre boom and horror/mystery resurgence: a sea-change augmented by a swift rewriting of the specific terms of the Comics Code Authority. My fan-boy radar suspects Roy Thomasâ€™ marsh-monster the Glob (debuting in Incredible Hulk #121 from November 1969 and promptly returning in #129, June 1970) either inspired both DC and Marvelâ€™s creative teams, or was part of that same zeitgeist.

He/it slurped through the back of Airboy Comics (nÃ©e Air Fighters Comics) from1943.

Prime evidence was the fact that Marvel were also working on a man-into-mucky, muddy mess character at the very same time.īoth Swampy and the Man-Thing were thematic revisions of Theodore Sturgeonâ€™s classic novella It and bore strong resemblances to an immensely popular Hillman Comics character dubbed The Heap. The first fan-sensation of the modern age – now officially enshrined as the Bronze Age – of American comicbooks – Swamp Thing has powerful popular fiction antecedents and in 1972 was seemingly a concept whose time had come again.

Cover by Ernie Chan.įor the first time, these 1970s tales are collected in paperback as Swamp Thing encounters a scientist bent on destroying the minds of world leaders, an old-age home whose inhabitants use black magic to regain their youth, and an alien whose voyage across the cosmos has driven him insane.By Len Wein & Bernie Wrightson, Nestor Redondo with Michael Wm. Art by Nestor Redondo, Ernie Chan, Murphy Anderson, Jim Aparo, Michael Netzer, Bob Wiacek, Joe Rubinstein, Keith Giffen, Fred Carrillo, and John Celardo. Written by Gerry Conway, David Michelinie, David Kraft, Steve Englehart, Bob Haney, Martin Pasko, and Carla Conway. If you use the 'Add to want list' tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.

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