Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More—In the Swamplight: Showcase Presents... #95

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In the Swamplight
Showcase Presents... #95

Story Title	Pub. Date
[Untitled]	Oct.-Nov. 1977

Writer	Artists
Paul Kupperberg	Joe Staton and Francesco Chiaramonte

Cover	Editors
Jim Aparo	Paul Levitz and Vince Colletta


Chronological Breakdown
• 1975: Immortus takes the Doom Patrol to a station on the far side of the Moon, where he uses a psycho-probe to search Arani's memories for the formula. Her comrades break free but are quickly subdued by the villain's guards. Obtaining the formula from her mind, Immortus leaves to create it. Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence reports place Vostock in Midway City, and Matt Cable is sent to find her. A week later, outside the Doom Patrol's mansion, Cable sees a Russian KGB agent, Igor Brunovich, also watching the building. He realizes he must get to the cosmonaut before the KGB does, or else she'll be killed. Chasing Brunovich off, he breaks into the Doom Patrol's HQ and is attacked by automatic security lasers. The heroes break free of Immortus' troops, steal a rocket and return to their HQ on Earth to find Cable waiting for them.

Trivia
• Although this three-part (published in Showcase Presents... #94-95) story was published in 1977, it cannot occur in that year since Matt Cable left the D.D.I. in 1975. A newspaper headline indicates Swamp Thing is in Gotham at the time of this story, so I am setting it at the same time as The Brave and the Bold #122.


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