He was instrumental in the apparent death of Swamp Thing, which jeopardized many lives as the Parliament of Trees attempted to replace him.

Other related comics include Swamp Thing and Sandman ( and its spinoffs, like Lucifer ).

" 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.

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Swamp Thing, a fictional character, is a humanoid / plant creature elemental in the, created by writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson.

Swamp Thing has had several humanoid or monster incarnations, depending on various story lines.

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.

The Swamp Thing character first appeared in House of Secrets # 92 ( June – July 1971 ), with the name Alex Olsen.

Unable to make Linda realize his true identity, the Swamp Thing sadly ambles to his boggy home.

In Swamp Thing # 1 ( October – November 1972 ) Wein and Wrightson updated the time frame to the 1970s and featured a new version character: Alec Holland, a scientist working in the Louisiana swamps on a secret bio-restorative formula " that can make forests out of deserts ".

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 major difference between the first and second Swamp Thing is that the latter appears more muscular than shambling, and possesses the power of speech.

In Swamp Thing # 33, Alan Moore attempted to reconcile the two versions of Swamp Thing with the revelation that there have been many previous incarnations of Swamp Thing prior to the death and " rebirth " of the Alec Holland incarnation.

Three others are notable: Albert Höllerer, a pilot in World War II, appeared briefly and had his story summarized in Swamp Thing # 47 ( May 1986 ), and Aaron Hayley appeared in the Swamp Thing: Roots graphic novel ( 1998 ) set in the 1940s, and Alan Hallman, the Swamp Thing of the 1950s and 1960s, introduced in Vol.

Since the creation of the Vertigo imprint ( itself largely inspired by the success of DC Comics ' increasingly mature titles such as Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Hellblazer, and The Sandman ), DC's horror / occult characters such as Morpheus have drifted progressively further away both from DC continuity and from each other.

The first single off the album, " Extra Ordinary ," which had been mixed by DJ Swamp, was inspired by an AC / DC song.

The ghost orchid of Blair Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary also inspired the fiction novel, Ghost Orchid.

The principal two Swamp Things are also connected in that Holland's first wife is Linda Ridge, a descendant of Damian Ridge.

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.

The town has two other large bodies of water, the Upper Bear Swamp Reservoir and Pelham Lake, which feeds Pelham Brook, a tributary of the river.

The landfill is bordered on two sides by the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, and was formerly known as Miele's Dump, after owner Robert Miele.

He collaborated with writer Mark Millar on five issues of Swamp Thing in 1994, produced two one-shots — The Mystery Play ( 1994 ) and Kill Your Boyfriend ( 1995 ) — and contributed to several anthologies.

Foster also contains one of Rhode Island's only two covered bridges, known as the Swamp Meadow Covered Bridge ( the other is located on Ponaganset High School's Cross Country Course in North Scituate ).

* On the 1999 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Exam ( Written and provided by The College Board ), the essay prompt for rhetorical analysis consisted of two passages about Okefenokee Swamp.

Swamp Rat XIV was however so successful that in 1971, Garlits won two of his next three Top Fuel Eliminator titles ( the Winternats and Bakersfield ), plus a runner-up at Lions, all in the new car.

The story takes place over two generations and across many lands, including Daventry, Kolyma, Llewdor, Tamir, Serenia, Eldritch, Etheria, Land of the Green Isles, Realm of the Dead, The Swamp, Dimension of Death, Underground Realm of the Gnomes, Barren Region, Frozen Reaches, Paradise Lost, and Realm of the Sun.

The Confederate attack continued on June 27 and Reynolds, exhausted from the Battle of Gaines ' Mill and two days without sleep, was captured in Boatswain's Swamp, Virginia.

This subspecies ( Melospiza georgiana nigrescens ) winters in coastal marshes of the Carolinas and differs from the two inland Swamp Sparrow subspecies in having more black in a grayer overall plumage, larger bill, different songs, and a smaller average clutch size.

He encounters two bears ; escapes from the desolate, raven-infested Deadwood Swamp ; steals a muskrat from a fox cache ; follows a train-track to the home of a female deer, who shelters him ; sleeps in an Owl's " dreaming nest "; stays for a while with a sow pig and her piglets ; catches a fish, only to have it stolen by a raccoon ; is mobbed by seagulls ; and evades the third bear, then a snake, only to fall into a hole.

The other elements of the scheme include a weir on Blackmans Swamp Creek, which creates a 3 megalitre pool and the site for the first pump station, a 200 megalitre dam and two 17 megalitre batching ponds. The pumps on the creek transfer stormwater to the 200 megalitre dam at a rate of up to 450 litres per second and are designed to rapidly extract peak storm flows from the creek.

The name " Carine " was derived from the two swamps in the area, which were recorded by R. Quinn in a survey in 1865 as " Big Carine Swamp " and " Small Carine Swamp ".

At the time, the Shreveport Swamp Dragons were affiliated with the San Francisco Giants ; Hicks cast aside this association and bought out the remaining two years of Tulsa's Player Development Contract.

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located not only between two states, but also between two eco-regions, allowing for a wide range of plant and animal species.

Between the two armies was a small, dense forest, wide, bisected by the headwaters of White Oak Swamp.

* A Swamp Thing video game, different from the NES version, was to be released on the Genesis, but was subsequently cancelled.

Arcane as seen in the Swamp Thing ( video game ) | Swamp Thing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System | NES

Arcane appears as the main boss in the Swamp Thing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Bell was once the site of " Swamp Shooters ", an alumni game where former University of Florida football players, such as Shane Matthews and Jacquez Green, would, along with volunteers from the audience and school faculty, participate in many different games often relating to the sport of basketball, but also some football competitions.

These include the North Queensland Cowboys ( National Rugby League ), the Townsville Fire ( Women's National Basketball League ) who play at the Townsville RSL Stadium and the Townsville Crocodiles, ( National Basketball League ) who play out of the Townsville Entertainment Centre, known as The Swamp during Crocs home games.

The team plays its home games at the Townsville Entertainment Centre ( TEC ), known as " The Swamp " within the NBL.

The three ( plus new members Loren Wiseman and John Harshman ) began drafting a variety of designs, some derivative of existing games at the time ( with generic names like Guerre, Swamp ), and some original concepts ( Triplanetary ).

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.

They outclassed more experienced opponents at every turn, and scored plenty of goals with it-they put four goals past the Lafayette Swamp Cats on two separate occasions, with Jonas Lopez scoring a hat trick in one of the games, and beat the Houston Toros 4-0.