![]() ![]() However, since he couldn't speak, he had to leave, knowing that he saved his wife's life but could never be with her again. ![]() Before he could kill her, though, the Swamp Thing burst into the home and killed his former friend and saved his wife's life. The murderer's paranoia led him to assume that the widow (who had eventually turned to him for comfort in her grief and ultimately married him, just as he had planned) was on to him, and he planned to kill her before she could turn him in. However, the "dead" man had actually been transformed into a swamp thing by the chemical explosion that the "best friend" had arranged for him. That story, dubbed "Swamp Thing," was about a jealous jerk who murdered his best friend, Alec Olsen, so he could steal his friend's wife, who he had been pining over for years. You simply cannot discuss Swamp Thing #1 without first discussing House of Secrets #92, which came out a year earlier and introduced the Swamp Thing idea by Wein and Wrightson. ![]() WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS FIRST ISSUE? RELATED: 25 Years Ago, the DC Universe Was Devastated by the Godwave in the Genesis Crossover With page after page of illustrations (including a few complete works), this book is truly the definitive look book at the career of Berni Wrightson, Americas Greatest Illustrator of the Macabre. Let's go back fifty years to August 1972 for the first issue of Swamp Thing's ongoing series by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. ![]()
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