Swamp Thing is one lonely mother-fucker. An anguished, tortured body of moss and mayhem, this pivotal character for DC is one of my favorites from the 1970s. This collection shows his beginning roots in the Bayou Gothic, and ends up with him fighting dinosaurs. Bernie Wrightson owns this existential shit-kicking monster, and lovingly has him paired up with not only Frankenstein, but werewolves, aliens, mutants, even Batman. Once Nestor Redondo took over the illustrations, the quality of the fram...

A favoriteBack in the70s, i read this first run and remembered it well. Now thanks to this reprint, I've enjoyed it again. Different stories and some of the best artwork of the era, swamp thing is a great character and this is a fine series.

A classic collection, important if you want to know what Alan Moore did with Swampy when he picked up the story. This collects Wein's original 8 page treatment that was a very popular feature when it came out in 1971. After some time, Wein came back and did 13 issues, and his idea was just that this was this green mossy monster. It wasn't imbued with all these environmental and mystical and serious IDEAS that Moore brought to the story to make it something profound. Comparing the writing and art...

The art of Berni Wrightson is incredible but the stories are not as good as they would be later under Alan Moore.

Fourteen issues, 304 pages of full-color awesomeness awaits readers of the compilation “Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age, Vol. 1”, written by the comic book genius collaborators Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.“Swamp Thing” didn’t start out in the pages of “Swamp Thing”. Swampy first appeared as a character in a short story in issue #92 of DC’s House of Secrets, a horror comic that paid homage to classic silver age comic titles like “Tales From the Crypt”.Swampy fit into that horror niche quite well, b...

So way back in the day when Marvel starts cranking out Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein comics, DC busts out with its own original creation, the Swamp Thing. While those other books are now relegated to the nostalgic past, Swampy is still iconic and going strong. Why? Originality, for one - not being tied to a "classic monster" franchise. Granted, Swamp Thing actually appeared several months after Marvel's similar Man-Thing, but wasn't saddled with that stupid name.Another reason? Bernie Wrigh...

When scientist Alec Holland and his wife Linda are murdered to gain access to their bio-restorative formula, Alec rises from his watery grave as Swamp Thing!Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Volume one collects a story from The House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing #1-13. Like a lot of people my age, my first exposure to Swamp Thing was the Wes Craven movie from 1982. I've read some of the Alan Moore issues but I've never read any of the originals until now.I don't know if Joe Orlando's editorial direc...

Man, do I ever love the Wein/Wrightson run of this book!

Enjoyed this one a lot. Swamp Thing is a mix of Gothic romance, Lovecraftian horror, fantasy/scifi, and of course comic book heroism. I liked the classic look of the art work too. I especially liked Batman's appearance in which he is described as annoyingly committed to duty by Swamp Thing. He really does have a rich inner monologue--I found myself admiring that the most about the character that because he was mute, his monologuing became your insight into his often failed, but ultimately succes...

I was in high school when I first started to read "Swamp Thing" - my introduction to the works of Bernie Wrightson...I was memorized by his work - as ST faced all matter of supernatural beings - a werewolf, a pulsing mass, patchwork men...and others. Sadly, I stopped reading "ST" after Wrightson left the series after issue 10, and it never was the same....I never cared for Moore's take on ole Swampy either... This book contains the fist appearance of ST in "The House of Secrets", and well as is

Wrightson's work on the early Swamp Thing is something to behold: framing and mise en scene as tight and dynamic as anything I've ever seen in ink. Wein's writing? Not so much, but the panoply of classic horror tropes sustains an otherwise mawkish narrative. Great to have all of these in one well-curated package.

Wein manages to meld together horror and science fiction into a harmonious whole, telling stories that are strange, scary, and sometimes dreamlike. The height is surely #10, which puts the misshapen horror Arcane in conflict with antebellum ghosts. There's a reason that this story was later reprinted in the second Swamp Thingrun!There are also an amazing number of long-running characters introduced by Wein including Alec (#1), Matt (#1), Arcane (#2), Abby (#3), Gregori (#3), and even Tim Ravenwi...

A bit naive at times (the Batman stint for example) but overall enjoyable.

Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson lay a terrific foundation that Alan Moore would one day build off of. The Swamp Thing comes across Anton Arcane and his Un-Men in the second issue. He comes across the paths of witches, werewolves, Patchwork Men, elder gods and Batman during his travails from the Balkans back to the swamps of Louisiana. Bernie Wrightson's art is sublime. It's got this classic EC look to it. He really makes creatures like the Un-Men look horrific while giving Swamp Thing his iconic l...

The original run of Swamp Thing doesn't have the ambitious storytelling or the sharp sociopolitical commentary of the more famous and justly-lauded Alan Moore/Rick Veitch run of a few years later. But it does have Bernie Wrightson's pencils. Wrightson does some really inventive creature design, all while hitting a perfect mid-point between 70's DC house style and the swampy old horror comix of Graham Ingels. Once Wrightson leaves the book late in this volume, the quality of the visual storytelli...

This IS your daddy's Swamp Thing. A time of dark broody twisted art and a shambling example of humanity vs the not human? LIVING for the art - can't believe all this goodness was available for 20 cents and issue!

I absolutely LOVED reading this. It had been years since I had read any Swamp Thing stories, so I didn’t know quite what to expect. Anticipation for the new tv series made me want to revisit it, and I was not disappointed one bit. The writing is awesome. It’s very Frankenstein-ish. Swamp Thing is a monster, but most of the humans he comes in contact with are more monsterous than he is. I personally hate when people say things like this, but they just don’t make comics like this anymore.

Well this was fun! The Swamp Thing of my child hood. I found this on Hoopla through my library. Some of the story telling was a little cliche, but most of the art in this book was done by Bernie Wrightson, the co- creator of Swamp Thing, along with writer Len Wein. So of course, the art was great. Later in this volume it isn’t drawn by Wrightson anymore but it’s still good. I also liked that Swamp Thing has to tangle with a bunch of different monsters including Frankenstein and a Werewolf. 5 sta...

Reprints House of Secrets (1) #92 and Swamp Thing (1) #1-13 (July 1971-December 1974). When Dr. Alec Holland is targeted by a nefarious organization for his new formula, he finds his life destroyed, his wife Linda dead, and himself transformed into a hulking human-vegetation hybrid called the Swamp Thing. Hunted by his former friend Matt Cable who suspects Swamp Thing killed Alec and Linda, Swamp Thing finds himself caught in a web of mystery and horror…and desperate to cure himself from his cur...

When I first got heavily into reading comics about 5 years ago, I did an enormous amount of searching online for what volumes to hunt down, writers/artists to look into and the best means to get complete story arcs. Almost at the outset, raves were abound for Alan Moore's historic run on Swamp Thing in the mid-1980's with claims of it having raised the bar for literary tendencies within the medium. I found a copy of Volume One at the local library and by the end, I was hooked. Maybe even a bit o...