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Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Kelley Jones: Deluxe Edition review



Inside this sumptuous hardcover you will find the following:

From 1989, the unfinished SWAMP THING: DÉJÀ VU #1 (Book one of an abandoned three-issue prestige format series) by Len Wein and BERNIE WRIGHTSON! All 46 pages of unpublished annotated prelims by Bernie Wrightson AND the unpainted pencils by Bernie Wrightson for pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-17, 21, 22, 24, 28 and 33!

A 2015 premise for a 6-issue Swamp Thing mini-series by Len Wein (2 pages).

A 2015 pitch for a 6-issue Swamp Thing series by Len Wein (7 pages).

The script to Convergence: Swamp Thing (2015) #1 by Len Wein (6 pages).

Foreword by Christine Valada (Widow of writer Len Wein).

Introductions by Kelley Jones and Rebecca Taylor (Swamp Thing (2016) series editor).

Essay by Doug Wheeler (Writer of Swamp Thing (1985) #88–109).

Pin-ups by Kelley Jones (Batman & Swamp Thing, 4 x Swamp Thing, 2 x Solomon Grundy, Zatanna, Dr. Anton Arcane, The Spectre and Deadman & Swamp Thing) 

Pencils by Kelley Jones with lettering placements by Len Wein for Swamp Thing (2016) #1 pp. 3 & 7.

Covers by Kelley Jones (Convergence: Swamp Thing (2015) #1-2 (colored by Michelle Madsen and uncolored), Swamp Thing (2016) #1-6 (colored by Chris Sotomayor and uncolored), Justice League Dark (2011) #38 (colored by Michelle Madsen and uncolored), Young Monsters in Love (2018) #1, Justice League Dark (2018) #7, 8, 10 and Swamp Thing by Len Wein & Kelley Jones: Deluxe Edition (2025) (colored by Michelle Madsen and uncolored))

Cover for Swamp Thing (2016) #1 by Yanick Paquette and Nathan Fairbairn.

Covers for Swamp Thing (1985) #94 and #100 by John Totleben.

Covers for Batman (1940) #521-522 by Kelley Jones and John Beatty.

Convergence: Swamp Thing (2015) #1 (It's Not Easy Being Green!)
Convergence: Swamp Thing (2015) #2 (The Night Has a Thousand Eyes!)

Swamp Thing (2016) #1 (The Dead Don't Sleep!)
Swamp Thing (2016) #2 (A Walk Among the Tombstones!)
Swamp Thing (2016) #3 (Fateful Reunion!)
Swamp Thing (2016) #4 (Be Careful What You Wish For!)
Swamp Thing (2016) #5 (Emerald Apocalypse!)
Swamp Thing (2016) #6 (Dark Destiny!)
Swamp Thing (2016) #7 (Spring Awakening! The unfinished cover + all 21 colored pages without speech balloons + the full script)

Swamp Thing (1985) #94 (The Mysterious Axman's Jazz)
Swamp Thing (1985) #100 (Tales of Eden)

Batman (1940) #521 (Killer Croc: Fast Train to the Wet Dark) 
Batman (1940) #522 (Swamp Things)

I give it a 10/10. 431 pages of Swampy goodness! A seriously stellar collection of Swamp Thing stories with a cool new cover by Kelley. Fans of Bruce Wayne's alter ego and Dark Knight/Caped Crusader completists take note, Batman and the Batman from the Elseworlds Batman & Dracula trilogy by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones appear in this tome.


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