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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 109. Chapters: Captain Marvel, List of Swamp Thing comics, Sentry, Powers, ID eNTITY, Batgirl, Pearls Before Swine, Ultimate Spider-Man, Requiem Chevalier Vampire, Inhumans, Legion Lost, Persepolis, Lucifer, List of Angel comics, Steampunk, Noh-Varr, Maximum Security, Creature Commandos, Green Lantern: Circle of Fire, Millennium Edition, I.N.V.U., Blue Monday, Young Allies, Avataars: Covenant of the Shield, Safe Area Gorazde, Kill Me, Kiss Me, The Pendulum, David Boring, Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes, Gen-Active, The First, Zero, Avengers Infinity, Necronauts, JLA: Earth 2, Green Lantern versus Aliens, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, Sigil, Midnight Nation, Backlash, Empire, Mystic, Meridian, Marvel: The Lost Generation, Battle Pope, Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm and Logan, Outlaw Nation, Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame, Batman: Gotham Knights, Tenth Muse, Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards, The Punisher, Super Sluggers, Louis, Deadenders, JLA: Created Equal, Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime, Scion, Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood, Pedro and Me, La Perdida, Ant-Man's Big Christmas, Superman vs. Predator, CrossGen Chronicles, City of Silence, Wildstorm Thunderbook, Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority, CrossGenesis. Excerpt: The fictional character Swamp Thing has appeared in four comic book series to date, including several specials, and has crossed over into other DC Comics titles. The series found immense popularity upon its 1970s debut and during the mid-late 1980s under Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and John Totleben. These eras were met with high critical praise and numerous awards. However, over the years, Swamp Thing comics have suffered from low sales which have resulted in numerous series cancellations and revivals. The first Swamp Thing series ran for 24 issues, from 1972 to 1976. Len Wein was the writer for the first 13 issues before David Michelinie and Gerry Conway finished up the series. Of particular note, famed horror artist Berni Wrightson drew the first ten issues of the series while Nestor Redondo drew a further thirteen issues, the last issue being drawn by Fred Carillo. Swamp Thing fought against evil as he sought the men who murdered his wife and caused his monstrous transformation, as well as searching for a means to transform back to human form. Swamp Thing has since fought many villains, most notably the mad Dr. Anton Arcane. Though they only met twice during the first series, Arcane and his obsession with gaining immortality, aided by his nightmarish army of Un-Men and the tragic Patchwork Man (Arcane's brother Gregori Arcane, who after a land mine explosion was rebuilt as a Frankenstein-type creature by his brother), became Swamp Thing's archnemesis, even as Swamp Thing developed a close bond with Arcane's niece Abigail Arcane. Also involved in the conflict was Swamp Thing's close friend turned enemy Matthew Cable, a federal agent who mistakenly believed Swamp Thing responsible for the deaths of Alec and Linda Holland. Despite Wein's writing the first thirteen issues, only the first ten issues of the original Swamp Thing series have been collected in any shape or form, primarily due to the popularity of Wrightson's artwork, stopping rather than concluding the s