Swamp Thing

 

  Swamp Thing character first appeared in the if  "House of secrets" issue #92 under the name Alex olsen.  The story was set in the early 20th century when Olsen (a scientist)  was caught up in a Lab explosion caused by his co-worker (Damian Ridge) who intended to kill him to get hand of olsen's wife.

           After the success of the short story in the
House of Secrets comic, the original creators
were asked to write an ongoing series,depicting a more heroic, more contemporary
creature.







         The creature, called Swamp Thing, was
originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating
into a vegetable-like creature, a "muck-
encrusted mockery of a man". However, under
writer Alan Moore, Swamp Thing was
reinvented as an elemental entity created
upon the death of Alec Holland, having
somehow absorbed Holland's memory and
personality into itself. He is described as "a
plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant
that was trying its level best to be Alec
Holland" with the result that he suffered a
temporary identity crisis as he tried to
surrender to his plant side after the discovery
that he could never be human 'again', but he
eventually adjusted to his role after a fight
with the Floronic Man . This new twist on his
identity diverged the character from Marvel's
character. This was Alan Moore's second re-
invention of a comic book character, the first
being Miracleman .

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