Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More—Cover Gallery: Unused or Unpublished Cover Art

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

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In the Swamplight
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Cover Gallery: Unused, Unpublished,
Rejected and Preliminary Artwork

Presented below are covers and interior art pages created but never used (or used in an alternate format) for Swamp Thing, Hellblazer and The Un-Men. For additional information regarding unpublished Swamp Thing- and Hellblazer-related stories, click here.

Main cover gallery

Swamp Thing

Preliminary Bernie Wrightson
cover art for Swamp Thing series 1 issue #5

Swamp Thing Series 1, Issue 15 (Rejected)

Rejected Nestor Redondo artwork for Swamp Thing Series 1 #15
Published in Amazing World of DC Comics #6

DC Special Series 2: The Original Swamp Thing Saga (Original Artwork)

Preliminary artwork for DC Special Series—The Original Swamp Thing Saga #2

DC Special Series 14: The Original Swamp Thing Saga (Preliminary)

Preliminary artwork for DC Special Series—The Original Swamp Thing Saga #14

Swamp Thing Series 2, Unused George Pratt Cover

Unused George Pratt art for Swamp Thing series 2 (issue unknown)

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 1 (Recreation)

Recreation of Tom Yeates cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #1

Unused Tom Yeates cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #9

Unused Stephen Bissette cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #26

Stephen Bissette Comics Journal Drawing Created to Convince DC to Allow Painted Covers

Stephen Bissette drawing for Comics Journal magazine
(created to convince DC Comics to allow painted covers)

Unused John Totleben cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #34

Rejected Stephen Bissette cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #41

Rough Stephen Bissette cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #42

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 44 (early version)

Early Stephen Bissette/John Totleben cover art
for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #44

Unused Stephen Bissette/John Totleben cover art for
Swamp Thing series 2 issue #50 (published in back of issue)

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issues 55-56 (Early Sketches)

Early Stephen Bissette sketches for Swamp Thing series 2 issues #55-56

Unused John Totleben cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #59

Unused John Totleben cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #62

Preliminary John Totleben cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #76

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 84 (Preliminary)

Preliminary John Totleben cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #84

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 88 (Unpublished)

Unused Tom Sutton/Michael Zulli cover art for Rick Veitch's
unpublished Swamp Thing series 2 issue #88

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 90 (Preliminary)

Preliminary John Totleben
cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #90

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 91 (Preliminary)

Preliminary Stephen Bissette/John Totleben
cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #91

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 100 (Preliminary)

Preliminary John Totleben
cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #100

Swamp Thing Series 2, Issue 106 (Unpublished)

Preliminary Ian Miller
cover art for Swamp Thing series 2 issue #106

Unused Arthur Adams Swamp Thing cover art (issue # unknown)

Swamp Thing Series 2, Unused Arthur Suydam art

Unused Arthur Suydam Swamp Thing interior art
submitted as an audition piece (issue # unknown)

Preliminary Enrique Breccia cover art
for Swamp Thing series 4 issue #1

Swamp Thing Series 4, Issue 2 (Preliminary)

Preliminary Enrique Breccia cover art
for Swamp Thing series 4 issue #2

Swamp Thing Series 4, Issue 3 (Preliminary)

Preliminary Enrique Breccia cover art
for Swamp Thing series 4 issue #3

Swamp Thing Series 4, Issue 4 (Preliminary)

Preliminary Enrique Breccia cover art
for Swamp Thing series 4 issue #4

Swamp Thing Series 4, Issue 5 (Preliminary)

Preliminary Enrique Breccia cover art
for Swamp Thing series 4 issue #5

Swamp Thing Series 4, Issue 6 (Preliminary)

Preliminary Enrique Breccia cover art
for Swamp Thing series 4 issue #6

Swamp Thing Sample Cover Art by Thomas Bonvillain

Sample Swamp Thing cover created by art student Thomas Bonvillain
for a class taught by former Swamp Thing inker Kim DeMulder
(see Bonvillain's website, Undead Art, for further details)

John Constantine: Hellblazer

Unused Bill Koeb Hellblazer cover art (issue # unknown)

John Constantine, Hellblazer Issue 41 (Unpublished)

Unused Feilpe Echevarria cover art for Hellblazer #31

This mock The Brave and the Bold cover, created by Tom Peyer when he
served as a pre-Vertigo editor of Vertigo's initial lineup, jokingly teamed up
Batman and John Constantine. Originally posted at Stuart Moore's blog.

John Constantine, Hellblazer Issue 141 (Unpublished)

Unused Tim Bradstreet cover art for Warren Ellis'
unpublished Hellblazer #141

John Constantine, Hellblazer Issue 218 (Unused)

Unused Greg Lauren cover art for Hellblazer #218

John Constantine, Hellblazer Issue 215 (Unaltered)

Unaltered Tim Bradstreet cover art for Hellblazer #215
(The final version has cigarette added to make hand gesture non-obscene.)

The Un-Men

Mike Hawthorne promotional art for The Un-Men #1

Preliminary Tomer Hanuka cover art for The Un-Men #1

Unused Mike Hawthorne interior art pages for The Un-Men #2
(The statue's destruction occurs instead in issue #1.)

Preliminary Tomer Hanuka art pages for The Un-Men #2

Unused Tomer Hanuka cover for The Un-Men #4

Unused Tomer Hanuka covers for The Un-Men #6

Uncensored Tomer Hanuka cover for The Un-Men #7

Main cover gallery

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