Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing

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

Nov 1996

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#2

Dec 1996

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#3

Jan 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#4

Feb 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#5

Mar 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#6

Apr 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#7

May 1997

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#8

Jun 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: Shawn McManus

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#9

Jul 1997

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#10

Aug 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: Alfredo P. Alcala, Stephen R. Bissette

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#11

Sep 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Rick Veitch

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#12

Oct 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben

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#13

Nov 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: Shawn McManus

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#14

Dec 1997

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W: Alan Moore · A: Ron Randall

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#15

Jan 1998

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#16

Feb 1998

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#17

Mar 1998

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#19

May 1998

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stan Woch

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#20

Jun 1998

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#21

Jul 1998

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W: Alan Moore · A: John Totleben, Stephen R. Bissette

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#22

Aug 1998

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W: Alan Moore · A: Alfredo P. Alcala, Stephen R. Bissette

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#23

Sep 1998

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#24

Oct 1998

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