Volume: 2
Price: 0.60 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1978-05-02
Editing: Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Cover Thumbnail for DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #14 - Original Swamp Thing Saga Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Swamp Thing / cover / 2 pages

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:[C-771]
Characters:
a werewolf
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Wrap around cover. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: DC [bullet]
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: twelve times a year
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: ?
  • Barcode: 0709893359482

Indexer Notes

The Original Swamp Thing Saga is featured in issues #2, 14, 17, and 20.

On sale date from the 1978 Library of Congress copyright records (cocatalog.loc.gov). Same date given in Comic Reader #156 and DC Coming Attractions #18.

[Swamp Thing #3]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Swamp Thing / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover in black and white.

The Patchwork Man
(Table of Contents: 2)

Swamp Thing / comic story / 23 pages

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • 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
Characters:
The Conclave Un-Men 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 (1)

Indexer Notes

Original colorist credit from the letter page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4.

#35 Rich Buckler
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 4)

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.5 page

Monster on the Moors
(Table of Contents: 5)

Swamp Thing / comic story / 22.5 pages

Script:
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Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The night is made of fog: a musky gray blanket that lies upon the landscape like a shroud, oppressing all it embraces...
  • Keywords:Scottish Moors
    • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Paul Rodman (guest, introduction, death); Angus MacCobb; Jenna MacCobb; the werewolf [Ian MacCobb] (antagonist, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
When their plane crashes in the Scottish Moors, the Swamp Thing battles a werewolf.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Original colorist credit from the letter page of Swamp Thing (DC, 1972 series) #4.

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 6)

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]
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DC Publishorial / in-house column / 1 page

[Swamp Thing #4]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Swamp Thing / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
a werewolf (antagonist)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover in black and white.

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  1. [no title indexed]
    Swamp Thing
  2. [Swamp Thing #3]
    Swamp Thing
  3. The Patchwork Man
    Swamp Thing
  4. #35 Rich Buckler
    DC Profiles
  5. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  6. Monster on the Moors
    Swamp Thing
  7. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  8. [no title indexed]
    DC Publishorial
  9. [Swamp Thing #4]
    Swamp Thing
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  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • John Censullo
  • CTGarry
  • Lee Lines
  • John Monagle
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Olivier Ray
  • Per Sandell
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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