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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published February 1984
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 36
Editing Len Wein

Cover Details

Characters Swamp Thing
Genre horror
Pencils Tom Yeates (signed)
Inks Tom Yeates (signed)
Colors Tatjana Wood
Reprinted in Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing (DC, 1996 series) #1; in Millennium Edition: The Saga of the Swamp Thing No. 21 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn]; in Saga of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2009 series) #1

23 page Swamp Thing story "The Anatomy Lesson"

Characters Swamp Thing; Floronic Man [Jason Woodrue]; General Avery Carlton Sunderland; Alec Holland (in flashback); Linda Holland (as corpse)
Synopsis General Sunderland hires Jason Woodrue to examine Swamp Thing and determine how Alec Holland became the monster, but Woodrue discovers that Swamp Thing only thinks that he was Alec Holland. When Sunderland fires Woodrue, the scientist allows Swamp Thing to take revenge on Sunderland for the both of them.
Genre horror
Script Alan Moore
Pencils Stephen R. Bissette
Inks John Totleben
Colors Tatjana Wood
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #61; in Saga of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1987 series) #[nn]; in Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing (DC, 1996 series) #1; in Millennium Edition: The Saga of the Swamp Thing No. 21 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn]; in Inferno (Epix; Atlantic Förlags AB, 1991 series) #1/1991