TwoMorrows · June, 2014
Swampmen: Muck-Monsters and Their Makers
INTRODUCTION: Love, Envy, and Bayou Beasts; BORN OF THE BAYOU: What is—and What Isn’t; a Swampman; STURGEON’S MONSTER: It All Began with It; SWAMPMEN; THE HEAP: From Monster to Villain to Hero at Hillman Comics; BETWEEN THAT HEAP AND THOSE THINGS: ’50s Swamp Monsters; SILVER SLUDGE & BOGGY BRONZE: ’70s Muckman Chronology; MARVIN, THE DEAD THING: Mr. Kanfer’s Short Life-After-Death*; THE GLOB: Hillman’s Heap Done Marvel-style; RETURN OF THE HEAP: Skywald’s Grotesque Revisioning; MAN-THING: The Savage Beginnings of the Marvel Monster; SWAMP THING: The Tragic Creature’s Roots; BOG BEAST: A Tar-Monster Rises at Atlas/Seaboard; LURKER IN THE SWAMP: Gold Key’s Haunted Swamp Dweller; IT: By Theodore Sturgeon*; THE MUCK-MONSTER MAKERS; SWAMP THING: Len Wein, Bernie Wrightson; THE MAN-THING: Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik, Mike Ploog, Jim Mooney; THE SWAMP GOD: Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, John Totleben; SWAMPMEN CONTRIBUTORS; CREATOR’S CREATORS: Ronn Sutton; COMING ATTRACTIONS: Bernie Wrightson Headlines CBC #7; A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS; ONE LAST THING: The Thing of It Is