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Post by killercrab on Oct 23, 2007 19:32:15 GMT
Swamp Thing's debut was modest - a short story filler in House of Secrets number 92. DC's mystery books ( of which there were many) usually housed 3 or 4 macabre tales from different writer/artist teams. Stealing from the infamous E.C. mags - DC's mystery books had their own characters who introduced the stories. Nobody thought overly about Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's little gothic muck monster tale - that was until the mail started pouring in. DC offered the creative team a book to display their protogee - which was declined as they felt the story was a one off and had nowhere to go. A year later and Wein realised by updating the concept to modern times - the idea could run. after convincing a sceptical Wrightson - SWAMP THING the book was born. HOUSE OF SECRETS 92 is now the fifth most valuable silver age comic due to low distribution in the UK amongst other things. The repro above is from a reprint made available in 1992. To be cont... ade
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Post by mcannon on Mar 19, 2017 6:20:38 GMT
Swamp Thing's debut was modest - a short story filler in House of Secrets number 92. DC's mystery books ( of which there were many) usually housed 3 or 4 macabre tales from different writer/artist teams. Stealing from the infamous E.C. mags - DC's mystery books had their own characters who introduced the stories. Nobody thought overly about Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson's little gothic muck monster tale - that was until the mail started pouring in. DC offered the creative team a book to display their protogee - which was declined as they felt the story was a one off and had nowhere to go. A year later and Wein realised by updating the concept to modern times - the idea could run. after convincing a sceptical Wrightson - SWAMP THING the book was born. HOUSE OF SECRETS 92 is now the fifth most valuable silver age comic due to low distribution in the UK amongst other things. The repro above is from a reprint made available in 1992. To be cont... ade This seems as decent a spot as any to post this sad news... It's just been confirmed that Bernie Wrightson, probably the finest horror comics artist since the days of EC, has died. He's suffered from cancer for some time, and just a few weeks ago announced his formal retirement as his surgeries had left him unable to draw anymore. www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03/19/comic-legend-bernie-wrightson-passed-away/A damn shame - one of the greats. Mark Attachments:
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Post by andydecker on Mar 19, 2017 20:19:30 GMT
Another sad loss. He was one of my favorite artists. His books like Creepshow or the illustrated Frankenstein are in my collection. And of course the Swamp Thing. Not to mention his illustrations for Oleck's House of Mystery. Not very important in his whole work. But today, where this has become a lost art, I treasure things like that even more.
He will be missed.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 19:45:55 GMT
Sad news. He really was one of the greats. Still in good form in recent years, too (at least until his illness) if the work he was producing for FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE, ALIVE! is anything to go by.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 14, 2017 12:53:07 GMT
I've only just discovered that Len Wein, co-creator of Swamp Thing, died on September 10th. He also created two characters who have had their greatest impact in films, Wolverine and Lucius Fox.
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