Saga of the Swamp Thing [Book One] [Bookstore Edition]

Moore, Alan; Stephen Bissette; John Totleben

Publication: New York: Warner Communications Company, 1987. Second Edition.

Notes: The bookstore edition of this graphic novel, published in November, following the comic-book store issue from the summer. Collects issues 20 to 27 of Saga of the Swamp Thing, the first seven issues of the classic run by writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), a key part of Moore's quest to reinvent the traditional superhero comic.

"When recruited by DC Comics in the early 1980s Moore was given the ailing Swamp Thing title... Moore's collaboration with artists Steve Bissette and John Totleben produced a great deal of formal experimentation with the comics page... [This] represented a reinvention of the horror comics genre, merging the Gothic and the esoteric together with some of the conventions of the superhero story... Moore's combination of these elements reflects a deliberate attempt to infect the superhero genre."—The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel.

Introduction by Ramsey Campbell; printed in color.

Edition + Condition: Second edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1, the Warner logo in the upper left corner, and a cover price of $10.95). Very good with some surface scuffing to the covers.

ISBN: 0446386901

Item No: #366319

Price: $50