DC Comics Publishes Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing 1989 37 Years Too Late

‘Swamp Thing 1989’ will debut in April

As announced at last year’s New York Comic Con, DC will finally publish Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli and Vince Locke’s work on Swamp Thing #88 from 1989. The first of four issues of the DC Black Label title will arrive in April, featuring a cover by Veitch and a variant by Zulli. Veitch’s run on Swamp Thing in the late 1980s was cut short when issue #88, which featured a time-displaced Swamp Thing arriving in time to meet Jesus Christ, was cancell…

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Back in the 80s writer Alan Moore successfully reinvented the character of Swamp Thing and brought the long-standing leafy creature a new audience. He handed writing duties off to Rick Veitch in 1987, who did a respectable job continuing the series, but then in 1989, DC abruptly cancelled the whole thing. In the decades since, fans have demanded an official release of the rejected Issue #88…such demands tend to get ignored, but perhaps after the…

DC Comics Publishes Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing 1989 37 Years Too Late

DC Comics publishes the final four issues of Rick Veitch and Michael Zulli's Swamp Thing 1989 thirty-seven years too late