Saga of the Swamp Thing [Book One] [Comic Shop Edition]

Moore, Alan; Stephen Bissette; John Totleben

Publication: New York: DC Comics, 1987. First Edition.

Notes: The first edition, for comic book stores, of this graphic novel, published in the summer of 1987, prior to the bookstore issue from November. 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: First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1, the DC logo in the upper left corner, and a cover price of $10.95). Light corner wear, else near fine.

ISBN: 0930289226

Item No: #366320

Price: $125