Script:	Len Wein
Pencils:	Bernie Wrightson (signed as WRIGHTSON)
Inks:	Bernie Wrightson (signed as WRIGHTSON)
Colors:	Bernie Wrightson
Letters:	Gaspar Saladino

• Genre:horror-suspense
• Job Number:J-1964

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Dawn rolls in with a whimper, spreading shimmering fingers of scarlet across the snowcapped Balkan landscape like a blind man feeling his way...
• Keywords:Balkans; monsters
Universe:DC : mainstream

The Conclave

• Mister E. [Nathan Ellery]

  (villain) (face in the shadow)

Un-Men

• The Patchwork Man [Gregori Arcane]

  (death, origin) (antagonist) (named, appears also in the human that he was before his death)

• Abigail Arcane

  (guest) (introduction)
• Anton Arcane

  (flashback) (villain)
• Matt Cable

  (antagonist)
• Swamp Thing [Alec Holland]

  (featured)

numerous anonymous Un-Men (antagonist, flashback)

Synopsis:

In the Balkans the Swamp Thing meets the Patchwork Man on a mission to save his daughter Abigail Arcane.

Reprints (19)

• in La Créature des Marais (Editions du Fromage, 1977 series) #1
• in Sueurs Froides (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #2
• in Spectral (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #2 (4ème trimestre 1974) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Serietidningen (Williams Förlags AB, 1975 series) #3/1975 ([5 november] 1975)
which is reprinted
• in Gigant (Semic, 1976 series) #3/1983
• in Mi Gran Aventura - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1975 series) #3 (11 de febrero de 1976)
• in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #14 - Original Swamp Thing Saga (Summer 1978)
• in Selecções (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1961 series) #204 (10 de Julho de 1978)
• in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #261 (10 Februar 1981)
• in Swamp Thing (Tor Books, 1982 series) #49-012-7 (April 1982)
• in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #3/1983 (uke 18 1983)
• in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1986 series) #2 (August 1986)
which is reprinted
• in Swamp Thing (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1990 series) #1 - Das Ding aus den Sümpfen (Dezember 1990)
• in Swamp Thing l'intégrale (Delcourt, 2004 series) #1 - Genèse (février 2004) [noir et blanc [black and white]]
• in Horror (Dečje novine, 1986 series) #17 (August 1988.)
• in Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis (DC, 1992 series) (1991 [March 1992])
• in Secret of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2005 series) (November 2005)
• in DC Comics Classics Library: Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2009 series) ([July] 2009)
• in Roots of the Swamp Thing (DC, 2012 series) (2011 [February 2012])
• in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) ([December] 2017)
• in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([December] 2018)
• in Swamp Thing - La créature du marais (Urban Comics, 2019 series) (août 2019) [noir et blanc [black and white]]

Colors credit from the letter page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4; letters credit from the letters page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #5. Signed and dated : "'72".

Script:	Joe Orlando (replies to letters)
Letters:	typeset

• Job Number:J-1990

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Dear Joe, Len and Berni, You have created the greatest comic book that has ever been published.

Letters of comment from Dominic Count, Paul Edwards, Paul Harman, Duffy Vohland, Danny Ware, Terrence Jones and Paul Emrath.