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

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

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In the Swamplight
Swamp Thing Series 1 #4

Story Title	Pub. Date
"Monster on the Moors"	Apr.-May 1973

Writer	Artist
Len Wein	Bernie Wrightson

Cover	Editor
Bernie Wrightson	Joe Orlando


Chronological Breakdown
• 1973: Stormy weather crashes Matt Cable's sea-plane in the Scottish moors. A local couple named Angus and Jenna MacCobb cart Cable, Abby Arcane and pilot Paul Rodman to their desolate manor, with Swamp Thing trailing from a distance. The MacCobbs tend to their wounds and offer shelter. Rodman heads out to check the plane and is killed by an inhuman creature. The next day, Cable and Abby prepare to leave but MacCobb's horse Becky runs off, leaving no transportation. Suspicious, they head into the moors and are attacked by a werewolf. Swamp Thing attacks it, but quick-sand swallows him up. Shaken, they return to the manor, where Jenna gives them drugged sherry. They sleep for nearly a day, awakening strapped to tables. At the next table is the MacCobbs' son, Ian, who is horrified at his parents' attempt to cure him of lycanthropy via a blood transfusion from others. The full moon rises and he becomes a werewolf, but Swamp Thing enters the house and fights him, impaling him with silver from a chandelier. Ian dies in peace, relieved the curse is over, and Cable sets out to continue his search for the Swamp Thing, ignoring Abby's plea to re-think his vendetta.

Trivia
• Werewolf characters also feature in issues #40 and #152 of the second Swamp Thing series, as well as in two stories containing Swamp Thing or Hellblazer elements: Black Orchid #5 and Paul Hogan's unpublished miniseries The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon.

• Ian MacCobb appears in a dream sequence in Swamp Thing series 2 #22.


Reprints and Collections

DC Special Series #14— The Original Swamp Thing Saga	Roots of the Swamp Thing #2


Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis	Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis	The Secret the Swamp Thing

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