Swamp Thing

Swamp Thing (formerly translated into France by the Creature of the marsh or the Creature of the marshes ) is a series of American cartoon created by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson. She will know a revival thanks to Alan Moore, which will sign a work définitoire future label Vertigo of cd. Comics where the series will continue.

Synopsis

Doctor Alec Holland, researcher on the capacity bio-restorer, finds himself isolated with his wife in order to continue his research in the middle of a marsh of Louisiana. Its discoveries attract the covetousness of a not very scrupulous company, and him and his wife becomes the victims of a bomb placed in the laboratory. Alec Holland lying in the marsh where the result of its research flowed finds transformed into " the Creature of the marais" , Swamp Thing. But the creature will end up learning from the mouth of the insane scientist Jason Woodrue, alias Floronic Man/L' man floronic, who it is not Alec Holland, but a vegetable creature which has its memories.

Publications

In France, Swamp Thing was a long time called the Creature of the Marsh and was initially published in black and white and small size within the review Spectral before being republished in an average format and colors, then in large size color, always in the editor Arédit/Artima.
  • Spectral 1st series: 15 numbers of September 1974 in Spectral July 1977
  • 2nd series: 25 numbers of January 1978 in January 1984 (not in all the numbers)
  • Spectral 3rd series: 16 numbers of May 1985 in April 1988.
  • the Creature of the Marsh (average format): 4 numbers of March 1982 in September 1982 (republication of the first episodes)
  • the Creature of the Marsh (large size): 3 numbers of March 1983 in November 1983.
  • Swamp Thing : 4 albums at Delcourt as from 1998, of which an integral republishing (still) the first episodes.

Film adaptations

External bonds

  • Legal downloading of the #1 of the series on the official site
  • Page Swamp Thing of comics-dB

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