ST101 The Birth of Swamp Thing

The Patchwork Man: Swamp Thing #3 and the debt to Frankenstein

Abigail Arcane appears, and Wein and Wrightson pay Mary Shelley back in full.

About 75 minutes.

Reading for this lesson

  • Required Swamp Thing #3: "The Patchwork Man" Len Wein (writer), Bernie Wrightson (artist) the whole issue

    First appearance of Abigail Arcane; the Patchwork Man.

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  • Optional Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Mary Shelley (text), Bernie Wrightson (illustrations), introduction by Stephen King any twenty pages of illustrations

    To see what Wrightson made of Shelley a decade later.