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Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing

    (Vertigo, 1996-1998)
™ and © 1996 DC Comics, Inc.

Few issues can claim to have changed the history of comics, but Swamp Thing #21 was one of them. Starting here, writer Alan Moore and artist Steve Bissette brought a radical new vision to the DC Universe and to comics in general. Moore took DC’s venerable swamp creature, around since the early 70s, and made him the center of a sweeping drama of awesome psychological and mythological complexity. For several years in the mid-80s, Moore and Bissette’s Swamp Thing was essential reading for a generation of fans eager to have their expectations challenged and their view of the medium expanded. The success of Swamp Thing lead to further experimentation by visionaries like Neil Gaiman, whose Sandman series brought about the creation of the prestige Vertigo imprint. So it’s only natural that Moore’s groundbreaking Swamp Thing series should anchor the Vertigo reprint line, Essential Vertigo, launched in 1996.
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  • 1
    #1
    Nov 1996
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #21
    2 copies from $1.25
  • 2
    #2
    Dec 1996
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #22
    3 copies from $2.25
  • 3
    #3
    Jan 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #23
    2 copies from $4.98
  • 4
    #4
    Feb 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #24
    3 copies from $1.40
  • 6
    #6
    Apr 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #26
    1 copy for $6.98
  • 7
    #7
    May 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #27
    1 copy for $6.98
  • 8
    #8
    Jun 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Shawn McManus
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #28
    2 copies from $6.98
  • 9
    #9
    Jul 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #29
    1 copy for $14.98
  • 10
    #10
    Aug 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Alfredo P. Alcala, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #30
    1 copy for $9.98
  • 12
    #12
    Oct 1997
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #32
    2 copies from $2.00
  • 13
    #13
    Nov 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Shawn McManus
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #32
    1 copy for $14.98
  • 14
    #14
    Dec 1997
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Ron Randall
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #34
    1 copy for $12.98
  • 15
    #15
    Jan 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #34
    1 copy for $34.98
  • 16
    #16
    Feb 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #35
    1 copy for $7.98
  • 17
    #17
    Mar 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #36
    1 copy for $7.98
  • 18
    #18
    Apr 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Rick Veitch
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #37
    1 copy for $71.98
  • 19
    #19
    May 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stan Woch
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #38
    1 copy for $34.98
  • 20
    #20
    Jun 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #39
    2 copies from $3.00
  • 21
    #21
    Jul 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #40
    1 copy for $3.00
  • 22
    #22
    Aug 1998
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Alfredo P. Alcala, Stephen R. Bissette
    Reprints Saga of the Swamp Thing #41
    2 copies from $3.00
  • 24
    #24
    Oct 1998
    Cover: $2.25
    Final Issue
    1 copy for $13.98