Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More—In the Swamplight: Showcase Presents... #96

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In the Swamplight
Showcase Presents... #96

Story Title	Pub. Date
"Defection"	Dec-Jan.. 1977/1978

Writer	Artists
Paul Kupperberg	Joe Staton and Bruce Patterson

Cover	Editors
Jim Aparo	Paul Levitz and Vince Colletta


Chronological Breakdown
• 1975: Matt Cable tries to arrest Vostock, but Steele bends his gun into handcuffs and locks him in a closet. Brunovich returns with a hugely muscled cyborg known as the Cossack, intent on taking Vostock back to Russia. The others fight the brute, but he defeats Vostock and flies off with her on a winged horse. He doesn't get far, however, as Vostock's comrades catch up with him in a helicopter and short-circuit his robotic body in a fury of power blasts and thermal energies, rescuing Vostock. Meanwhile, Cable escapes his bonds and runs outside the gothic mansion. Brunovich spots him and pulls a gun, but Cable overpowers him and locks him up in the Doom Patrol's HQ to await the heroes' return.

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.

• This story ends without any real resolution to Cable's search for Vostock. Presumably, he decides to leave her in the care of her fellow superheroes and returns to Washington to continue his search for the Swamp Thing.


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