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

November, 1996
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $1.25 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#2

December, 1996
Cover Price: $1.95
3 copies available from $1.75 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#3

January, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $5.25 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#4

February, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
3 copies available from $1.75 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#5

March, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $7.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#6

April, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $3.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#7

May, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $3.99 		  
#8

June, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $5.95 		Alan MooreShawn McManus
#9

July, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $14.98 		  
#11

September, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $6.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Rick Veitch
#12

October, 1997
Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $2.00 		Alan MooreStephen R. Bissette, John Totleben
#13

November, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $17.98 		Alan MooreShawn McManus
#14

December, 1997
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $14.98 		Alan MooreRon Randall
#15

January, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $39.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#16

February, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $3.00 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#17

March, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $9.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#18

April, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $69.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Rick Veitch
#19

May, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
1 copy available for $34.98 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stan Woch
#20

June, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $3.00 		  
#21

July, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $3.00 		Alan MooreJohn Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette
#22

August, 1998
Cover Price: $1.95
2 copies available from $3.00 		Alan MooreAlfredo P. Alcala, Stephen R. Bissette
#23

September, 1998
Cover Price: $2.25
1 copy available for $14.98 		  
#24

October, 1998
Cover Price: $2.25
1 copy available for $14.98