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Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing #1 (1996) · The Collector

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Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing (1996)
#1

DC Comics#1

Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing

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Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing #1

The Anatomy Lesson

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: November 1996
On sale: Sep 25, 1996
Cover price: $1.95
Pages: 36
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers

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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.

Credits

Writer: Alan Moore
Pencillers: Stephen R. Bissette, Rick Veitch
Inker: John Totleben
Letterer: John Costanza
Cover: Tom Yeates
Cover colors: Tatjana Wood, Andy Walton
Others: Bob Kahan, Len Wein

Characters

Alec Holland
Floronic Man
General Avery Carlton Sunderland
Linda Holland
Swamp Thing

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