Recap / Swamp Thing

This is the Recap page specifically for the various comic book iterations of the Swamp Thing franchise.

Volume 1 (1972-1976)

Where it all began.^note Technically, the first appearance of a character called "Swamp Thing" was in the Len Wein/Bernie Wrightson story thus titled in House of Secrets #92 (June-July 1971). As Volume 2 Issue 33 incorporates that story in its entirety, please see there for its recap.

Volume 2 (1982-1996)

A relaunch of the title in the wake of the first film adaptation. Contains the definitive Alan Moore run of Issues 20-64.

Issues 1-30 are titled The Saga of the Swamp Thing.

Issues 129-171 were issued under the Vertigo imprint and as such no longer officially took place within mainstream DCU continuity.

1. What Peace There May Be in Silence
2. Something to Live For
3. A Town Has Turned to Blood
4. In the White Room
5. The Screams of Hungry Flesh
6. Sins on the Water
7. I Have Seen the Splintered Timbers of a Hundred Shattered Hulls
8. Here's Lookin' At You, Kid
9. Prelude to Holocaust
10. Number of the Beast
11. Heart of Stone, Feet of Clay
12. And Yet It Lives
13. Lambs to the Slaughter
14. Crystal Visions, Shattered Dreams!
15. Empire Made of Sand
16. Stopover in a Place of Secret Truths
17. And Things That Go Bump in the Night
18. The Man Who Would Not Die!
19. And the Meek Shall Inherit
20. Loose Ends
21. The Anatomy Lesson
22. Swamped
23. Another Green World
24. Roots
25. The Sleep of Reason...
26. ...A Time of Running...
27. ...By Demons Driven!
28. The Burial
29. Love and Death
30. A Halo of Flies
31. The Brimstone Ballet

• Swamp Thing Annual No. 2: Down Amongst the Dead Men

32. Pog
33. Abandoned Houses
34. Rite of Spring
35. The Nukeface Papers, Part One
36. The Nukeface Papers, Part Two
37. Growth Patterns
38. Still Waters
39. Fish Story
40. The Curse
41. Southern Change
42. Strange Fruit
43. Windfall
44. Bogeymen
45. Ghost Dance
46. Revelations
47. The Parliament of Trees
48. A Murder of Crows
49. The Summoning
50. The End
51. Home Free
52. Natural Consequences
53. The Garden of Earthly Delights
54. The Flowers of Romance
55. Earth to Earth
56. My Blue Heaven
57. Mysteries in Space
58. Exiles
59. Reunion
60. Loving the Alien
61. All Flesh is Grass
62. Wavelength
63. Loose Ends (Reprise)
64. Return of the Good Gumbo

Volume 3 (2000-2001)

Uniquely within the franchise, the main character is Swamp Thing's daughter, Tefé Holland. A Vertigo Comics title.

Volume 4 (2004-2006)

Swamp Thing returns to protagonist status with this series. A Vertigo Comics title.

Volume 5 (2011-2015)

A New 52 reboot, returning the character to the mainstream DCU.