Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More

Roots of the Swamp Thing: Your Portal to the Universe of Swamp Thing, The Un-Men and John Constantine: Hellblazer

• Part 1: Before Year 1
• Part 2: Year 1 to 1899
• Part 3: 1900 to 1969
• Part 4: 1970 to 1979
• Part 5: 1980 to 1984
• Part 6: 1985 to 1988
• Part 7: 1989 to 1991
• Part 8: 1992 to 1994
• Part 9: 1995 to 1999
• Part 10: 2000 to Present

Born on the Bayou
A history and introduction

Creature Features
Articles and feature stories

Cover Gallery
Judge the books by the covers

Forgotten Lore
Unpublished tales

In the Swamplight
Issue-by-issue breakdowns

Elemental Lineage
Past lives and other entities

Upcoming Releases
Coming to a bog near you

What's New Bayou?
Archived news updates

About Me
Portrait of a swamp-nerd

Homepage
Go back to the roots

Contact Me
Comments, corrections & tubers

Thanks to Joe Bongiorno, who first dragged me kicking and screaming into the mucky mythos of Swamp Thing, and to Paul Giachetti, who created the amazing header banner.

Thanks also to reader 'Alec Holland,' whose support has been invaluable; Mike Sterling, for promoting Swamp Thing and this site; and Kevin Church, for his excellent optimization advice.

And thanks to Len Wein, Bernie Wrightson, Alan Moore, John Totelben, Stephen Bissette, Jamie Delano, Garth Ennis and all the other creators whose work inspired this site.

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Portrait of a Swamp-Nerd

Who writes this stuff, anyway?

Rich Handley is the author of Hasslein Books' Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Chronology and Lexicon of the Planet of the Apes: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia, and is also editing BLAM! Ventures' upcoming Planet of the Apes line of novels, beginning with Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes, due out in 2011; Rich will co-write the second novel in that series with Andrew E.C. Gaska.

Rich penned three licensed Star Wars fiction titles—"Crimson Bounty," in West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal #14, with Charlene Newcomb; "Lady Luck," in Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars Tales #3, with Darko Macan; and "Lando Calrissian: Idiot's Array" on starwars.com—and has authored numerous articles for such Lucasfilm publications as Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Galaxy Collector, Star Wars Gamer and Star Wars Fact Files.

A frequent contributor to British Planet of the Apes fanzine Simian Scrolls, he was previously a columnist and reporter for Star Trek Communicator for several years, until that magazine went defunct. In addition, he has written for several other genre publications and Web sites, including Cinefantastique, Toons: The Animation Magazine, Dungeon/Polyhedron, Star Trek Magazine, Sci-Fi Invasion!, Cinescape.com and TrekWeb.com.

Rich has written for local newspapers, such as The Oyster Bay Guardian, Community News and The Port Washington Sentinel, and he has written for and/or edited a variety of trade publications, including Advanced Imaging, Health Products Business, Low-Voltage Contractor, Printing News, Wide Format Imaging, Photographic Processing, Imaging Business, Kitchen & Bath Design and Frozen Food Age. Currently, Rich works as a print and online magazine editor at RFID Journal.

Feel free to e-mail Rich with any questions, feedback, anecdotes, corrections, insults or marriage proposals.

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