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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published February-March 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Notes Sale date: December 7, 1972. Cover date: March.

Cover Details

Characters Abigail Arcane; the Patchwork Man; Swamp Thing
Genre horror
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Colors Bernie Wrightson
Notes Sale date: December 7, 1972. Cover date: March. Colorist credit from the letter page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4
Reprinted in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #14 (Summer 1978); in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #2 (August 1986)

23 page Swamp Thing story "The Patchwork Man"

Characters Abigail Arcane; Anton Arcane (flashback); the Conclave; Matt Cable; the Patchwork Man [Gregori Arcane]; Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]
Synopsis In the Balkans the Swamp Thing meets the Patchwork Man on a mission to save his daughter Abigail Arcane.
Genre horror
Script Len Wein
Pencils Bernie Wrightson (signed) [as Berni Wrightson]
Inks Bernie Wrightson (signed) [as Berni Wrightson]
Colors Bernie Wrightson
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes Colorist credit from the letter page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4
Reprinted in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #14 (Summer 1978); in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #2 (August 1986)

1 page advertisement "Sally Visits The Easy-Bake Oven Toy Factory"

Characters Sally
Genre children
Notes Comic strip ad for the Easy-Bake Oven toy from Kenner.

1 page letters page "Swamp Things"

Script various; Duffy Vohland (letter writer); Joe Orlando (replies to letters)
Letters typeset

Half page advertisement "The Insult That Made A Man Out Of 'Mac'"

Characters Mac
Genre teen
Notes Inside back cover. Comic strip ad for Charles Atlas' "How Dynamic-Tension Makes You A New Man" book.