Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More—In the Swamplight: Swamp Thing Vol. 1 #21

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In the Swamplight
Swamp Thing Series 1 #21

Story Title	Pub. Date
"Requiem"	Feb./Mar. 1976

Writer	Artist
David Michelinie	Nestor Redondo

Cover	Editor
Nestor Redondo	Joe Orlando


• 1976: Strolling Florida's Port Everglades, Swamp Thing is teleported to a space-platform by a gem-encrusted tyrant, Solus, whose comporter ensnared him while seeking human variations and oddities. He defeats Solus' slug-like bodyguards, Kolom and Jettak, but succumbs to an energy beam from Solus' staff. Solus puts him in a stasis tube with Krell and other aliens, promising to let him live if remains entertaining. A captive named Cellanth urges Solus to let them go. Angered, Solus rants about being of royal blood, claiming he killed his own brother for weakening the throne and was exiled here in punishment; nodules implanted in his body will explode on contact with planetary soil. Having scoured the galaxies looking for diversions, he has grown lonely. As he speaks, she discretely pushes a button on his staff, freeing Swamp Thing and the others. They kill Kolom and Jettak and make their way to the comporter, hoping to return to their worlds, but Solus takes control of the elemental's mind, forcing him to kill. Solus executes Cellanth and begins spacing others until Swamp Thing hits him with a girder. The aliens smash his controls and strand him on the platform, and he nearly falls to his death before Swamp Thing saves his life. Contact with Swamp Thing's soil-formed hand activates the nodules, causing him to detonate. Saddened that Solus' genius was fettered by insanity, Swamp Thing is the last to teleport out as the platform explodes.

Trivia
• Swamp Thing will later return to space during Alan Moore's historic stint on the second series.


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