DC Special Series 1977 #2 - back issue - $13.00
Letter from Harlan Ellison praising the creation of Swamp Thing.
When Ferrett and Bruno blow up Alec Holland's lab they create the Swamp Thing. Whey they return to dispose of Alec's wife Linda, the Swamp Thing is there to stop them.
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.
The Original Swamp Thing Saga is featured in issues #2, 14, 17, and 20. On-sale date from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1977. Date given as June 23 in DC Coming Attractions vol. 2 #7 and in house ads in Justice League of America #145 and Super-Team Family #12. Date given as June 21 in Comic Reader #144. Out with September-dated comics.
- - Wraparound cover. This issue has a number ?1? on the cover. Other issues in this series just have the year on the cover.
- - Includes two small cover reprints of the first two issues of Swamp Thing.
- Out of the Swamp... - Inside back cover. Taken from the letters page of the original issue.
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