Moore's experimentation ranged far and wide during his run, and kept the comic from going under. It was revealed that the Swamp Thing was really a separate entity from Alec Holland, a plant elemental who had taken on his memories during its fiery birth from the ashes of Holland's lab. Moore, however, retconned the character's origin, turning him into Gaia's Vengeance. Wes Craven followed this plot with his mildly successful film adaptation, about your standard modern-day Prometheus doing good and lamenting lost love. Originally, Swamp Thing was a scientist named Alec Holland who gets turned into a monster in the swamps near the town of Houma, Louisiana after his lab equipment is sabotaged and his wife Linda killed. Swamp Thing also showed publishers that holding comics to a higher literary standard did not necessarily mean a drop in sales. The book was among the first to abandon the Comics Code, and paved the way for the Darker and Edgier comics of the The '80s and The '90s, including Moore's own Watchmen and DC's Vertigo imprint, where the series eventually ended up, outside the main DCU. He introduced mysticism and sexuality into the series, as well as gray moral tones.
However, since no one cared about the title, there was no Executive Meddling, so Moore used the book not to explore inhuman monsters in spandex, but human ones. He has undergone numerous retcons over the years by various authors looking to rejuvenate the series, but the definitive one came during Alan Moore's run on the series from 1983 through 1987, which was also his first American title, and his first for DC.Īs an untested author, Moore was given a book slated to be cancelled.
Both stories were co-created by Wein and Wrightson. He was then reworked as a character suitable for series appearances in Swamp Thing vol.
The Swamp Thing first appeared in a one-shot horror tale in House of Secrets #92 (June-July, 1971). Swamp Thing is a comic book character created in 1972 by Len Wein and famed horror artist Bernie Wrightson. Eats all of the things that make you human.
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