Trivia / Swamp Thing Volume 2 - Issue 20: "Loose Ends"

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The first two North American collected editions of Alan Moore's run omitted this issue. DC instead chose to begin with the next, far more famous issue and to commission (for the first edition, when he was still on friendly terms with DC) a "story so far" introduction by Moore. (The British licensee, Titan Books, did include "Loose Ends" in their trade paperback series, but that went out of print early on.) This created a false Remember the New Guy? effect for those who encountered the series through the North American trade paperbacks and came upon Liz's and Dennis's sudden, starring appearance in Issue 54, neither of them having been so much as mentioned in the interim, apart from Woodrue's brief mention in Issue 21 of Liz's investigative book on the Swamp Thing. Not until the third, current collected edition did DC finally include "Loose Ends."