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Issue: DC Special Series #2
Publication Date: September 1977
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Issues: #2 of 27 Issues (32 Printings)
Title: The Original Swamp Thing Saga
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/23/1977
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893359409
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 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.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S. (#1-17, 20-22); digest (#18, 19, 23, 24); tabloid (#25-27)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-17, 20-22, 25-27); squarebound (#18, 19, 23, 24)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]; Un-Men
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound cover.
This issue has a number “1” on the cover. Other issues in this series just have the year on the cover.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]
Synopsis: Letter from Harlan Ellison praising the creation of Swamp Thing.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes two small cover reprints of the first two issues of Swamp Thing.
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Dark Genesis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Swamp Thing [Alec Holland] (intro, origin); Linda Holland; Matt Cable; Ferrett; Bruno; Anton Arcane (cameo, unnamed, hand only); The Conclave
Synopsis: 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.
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From Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #1 published October 1972
was Dark Genesis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Job Number: J-1746
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The Man Who Wanted Forever

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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 [including 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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From Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #2 published December 1972
was The Man Who Wanted Forever [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Job Number: J-1796
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Out of the Swamp...

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSwamp Thing #1 published October 1972
was [untitled] [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]text updated
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-4820
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Taken from the letters page of the original issue.

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