Swamp Thing Summary
Alan Moore

Swamp Thing Summary

Swamp Thing Volume 1 reproduces issues 21 through 27 of the comic book Saga of the Swamp Thing, which first ran in 1984. Though writer Alan Moore took over writing duties with issue 20, issue 21 is when Moore radically alters the origin of the title character and creates a new kind of Swamp Thing.

In issue #21, a villain botanist named Jason Woodrue, whose supervillain alterego is the plant-man Floronic Man, is hired by someone only identified...

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