Alan Moore's additional information about the Swamp Thing's origins did not contradict or change any of the events depicted in the character's previous appearances, but changed the reader's interpretation of them.

Though they only met twice during the first series, the mad Dr. Anton Arcane and his obsession with gaining immortality became Swamp Thing's arch-nemesis, 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 to be responsible for the deaths of Alec and Linda Holland.

Now written by Martin Pasko, the book loosely picked up after Swamp Thing's appearance in Challengers of the Unknown, with the character wandering around the swamps of Louisiana as something of an urban legend that was feared by locals.

Moore reconfigured Swamp Thing's origin to make him a true monster as opposed to a human transformed into a monster.

While Swamp Thing's strength has never been portrayed as prominently as many of his other abilities, he demonstrated sufficient strength to rip large trees out of the ground with ease and trade blows with the likes of Etrigan.

* The aforementioned film series rejected the popular Alan Moore revision of Swamp Thing's origin and portrayed Swamp Thing with his original origin as a man turned into a plant-like entity.

In Saga of the Swamp Thing # 22 ( March 1984 ), the Floronic Man uses the Swamp Thing's body — now regressing to a plant-like state out of his inability to accept the new revelation about his origins, Woodrue literally eating parts of him — to contact the Green, which is composed of the life force of all plants on Earth.

After breaking Poison Ivy out of Arkham with his two henchwomen Holly and Eva, Floro explains his past to Batman and Poison Ivy, telling the story of how he prevented a plot of Swamp Thing's, only to get decapitated.

Arcane sought to use his scientific and magic abilities to transplant his mind into Swamp Thing's body.

Rosenberg also outspokenly opposed homosexuality-notably in his pamphlet " Der Sumpf " (" The Swamp ")-having viewed homosexuality ( particularly lesbianism ) as a hindrance to the expansion of the Nordic population.

Most homes on Cedar Swamp Road and Pembroke Avenue have since been demolished, likely to make way for future expansion.

Laredo Heat initially joined the USL Premier Development League in 2004 as an expansion franchise, playing a limited ' exploratory ' schedule of eight exhibition games against selected opponents, but only managed two wins, both over the Lafayette Swamp Cats, 4-0 and 5-0, the latter of which featured a hat trick from striker Nelson Mata-Meza.

Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge extends into North Carolina, as does the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which marks the beginning of the Outer Banks.

The creature, called Swamp Thing, was originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating into a vegetable-like creature, a " muck-encrusted mockery of a man ".

However, under writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was reinvented as an elemental entity created upon the death of Alec Holland, having somehow absorbed Holland's memory and personality into itself.

The Swamp Thing has appeared in four comic book series to date, plus several specials, and has crossed over into other DC titles.

Starting with Swamp Thing Annual # 6, Collins moved on to write Swamp Thing # 110-138, dramatically overhauling the series by restoring the pre-Alan Moore tone and incorporating a new set of supporting cast members into the book .< ref >" Nancy Collins: Swamp Thing < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s New Scripter Speaks ," David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview, # 102 ( 1991 ), pp. 4-13 .</ ref > Collins resurrected Anton Arcane along with the Sunderland Corporation as foils for Swamp Thing.

As Collins had destroyed the status quo of the series, Morrison sought to shake the book up with a four-part storyline which had Swamp Thing plunged into a nightmarish dream-world scenario where he was split into two separate beings: Alec Holland and Swamp Thing, which was now a mindless being of pure destruction.

Even though she was chronologically 11-12, the series had Tefe aged into the body of an 18-year-old with a mindwipe orchestrated by Swamp Thing, Constantine and Abby in order to try to control her darker impulses, brought about by her exposure to the Parliament of Trees.

Haunted by thoughts of transforming again, he attempts to throw his formula into a swamp, but is stopped by a separate entity who has taken on the form of Swamp Thing.

Swamp Thing can inhabit and animate vegetable matter anywhere ( including alien plants, even sentient ones ) and construct it into a body for himself.

They also heavily featured Anton Arcane, who now became the man responsible for causing Alec Holland's transformation into Swamp Thing.

The New York Times has described Weems as one of the " early hagiographers " of American literature " who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, into the American pantheon ".

The Swamp and Overflowed Lands Act ensured that the state would be responsible for funding the attempts at developing wetlands into farmlands.

Outside of an extensive comic book history, the Swamp Thing property has inspired two theatrical films, a live-action television series, and a five-part animated series, among other media.

In 1988, the stadium was nicknamed " The Swamp ," as then noted on stadium signage, in the school yearbook and, a year later, in the 1989 official Southwestern Louisiana sports media guide.

During this series, it seems that Swamp Thing and Abigail have reunited as lovers and are living in their old home in the Louisiana swamps outside Houma.

Panther Swamp Raceway is located just outside of town along with the famous Shake on The Lake.

The Killbuck Marsh, locally known as Shreve Swamp, is located outside of the Village limits and part of the Killbuck Creek watershed.

Tingle appears in Clock Town, Southern Swamp, Woodfall, Mountain Village, Milk Road, Great Bay, Ikana Valley, Stone Tower, and outside Zora Hall.

Lesser realms, which included the city of Ss ' thar ' tiss ' ssun ( located in what is now the Forest of Wyrms ) and the city of Ilimar ( which is now split between the Great Swamp of Rethild and the Gulthmere Forest ), sprang up outside of the two great empires of Mhairshaulk and Isstosseffifil.

" Cugley used the newly-shortened word to describe a development in the comic book Saga of the Swamp Thing, which reinterprets the events of the title character's origin by revealing facts that, up to that point, are not part of the narrative and were not intended by earlier writers.

Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

Saga of the Swamp Thing was the first mainstream comic book series to completely abandon the Comics Code Authority and write directly for adults.

Over the years, the Swamp Thing comic has been nominated for and won several awards.

written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.

Debuting alongside ongoing former-DC series Swamp Thing # 129, Hellblazer # 63, Sandman # 47, Doom Patrol # 64, Animal Man # 57, and Shade, the Changing Man # 33, the first new comic book printed under the " Vertigo " imprint was Death: The High Cost of Living # 1, debuting a scant couple of weeks before Enigma # 1 in January ( March ) 1993.

* Swamp Thing ( 1982 ), based the long running comic that started in DC comics and had ended its run in Vertigo Comics created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.

After favorable reader reaction to John Constantine's appearances in the comic book series Swamp Thing, where he had been introduced by Alan Moore during his authorship of the title, the character was given his own comic book series in 1988.

However, in this process, Swamp Thing has his human soul removed, setting up the fourth run of the comic, relaunched shortly afterward.

In 1948, while art director of the short-lived New York Star, Kelly began to produce a pen-and-ink daily comic strip featuring anthropomorphic animal characters that inhabited the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

* The name " Okefenokee " has appeared many times in American pop culture, including Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, where the characters made their home in the Okefenokee Swamp, Freddy Cannon's 1959 hit " Okefenokee ", and Larry Verne's " Okefenokee Two-Step ".

Issue three, an anthology comic called Tales of the Uncanny, featured USA, Ultimate Special Agent based on Captain America, and Hypernaut, who was based on Iron Man, with elements taken from Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, Arnim Zola ( in appearance ), and Swamp Thing.

Len Wein (; born June 12, 1948, New York City, New York ) is an American-Jewish comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics ' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics ' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men ( including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus ).

Swamp is a comic strip created by Australian Gary Clark.

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The basic principle or the memory RNA was also used by comic book writer Alan Moore to explain the origin of DC Comics ' character the Swamp Thing in Saga of the Swamp Thing # 21.

Millar's British work brought him to the attention of DC Comics, and in 1994 he started working on his first American comic, Swamp Thing.

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A character called Jack in the Green has appeared in a number of comic books, including Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days, Swamp Thing Vol. 2 # 47 and Hellblazer: Lady Constantine # s 1, 2 and 3, as an early incarnation of the Swamp Thing character.