TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN: Muck Monster Monday : Swamp Thing's Saga

Monday, January 19, 2026

Muck Monster Monday : Swamp Thing's Saga

It's been almost a week since our last SWAMP THING month post but I was busy with life things including that I managed to set foot in an actual comicshop ( will wonders never cease ? ) where I was this close to buying a hardcover with Alan Moore's SWAMP THING issues and the only reason why I didn't purchase it was that it was the spanish translation and I prefer to read it in the american original. But now we're back on track and continuing our journey through DC Comics SWAMP THING series.

Like in our previous posts the second Nestor Redondo SWAMP THING post will be split up in two parts, the first one rounding up the first SWAMP THING series with art by Nestor Redondo with a little help by Ernie Chan on the last issue and the second one where we start with the second SWAMP THING series that began in 1982 SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING. I was thinking about skipping the part with Nestor Redondo and go straight into SAGA OF SWAMP THING but I don't want to have the first part just lying around since it looks like I have enough material for the long run.

We come to the part most people don't know unless they are completists and either bought the SWAMP THING - THE BRONZE AGE OMNIBUS that includes the first 19 issues of SAGA OF SWAMP THING before Alan Moore became the regular writer, picked up the third volume of the trade or have gone through the longboxes to find the floppies. Which by the way should not be that expensive keeping in mind how ignored by the general comicbook reader these comics are. Since I only have half a post we got original art from the issues 2 and 3 but as I said there will be many more posts of this. Now on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING we have Martin Pasko as the writer, Tom Yeates as the artist and Len Wein is the editor.