DC Finest: Swamp Thing: the Man Who Would Not Die

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• Publisher: DC Comics
• Writer: Various
• Artist: Various
• Cover Artist: Bernie Wrightson
• Rating: T - TEEN
• Pages: 544
• Edition: 1st Printing
• Color: Full Color
• Dimensions: 6.625" x 10.1875"
• Release Date: December 01, 2026
• Format: Trade Paperback
• Series: DC Finest Swamp Thing TP
• Issue Number: 1

The swamp remembers everything—even the man it refused to let die. DC Finest: Swamp Thing: The Man Who Would Not Die gathers the era-defining Bronze Age saga that birthed DC’s most haunting monster hero.From the character's debut appearance in The House of Secrets #92 to the origin, betrayals, and revelations of the classic Swamp Thing series, Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson craft a slow-burn tragedy about loss, guilt, and transformation. When scientist Alec Holland is seemingly doused in an experimental chemical on the verge of death in a Louisiana swamp, the Swamp Thing is created—but the truth of the Swamp Thing’s identity is much stranger and more arcane than a simple transformative accident.Wein, Wrightson, and their collaborators craft a dark, mysterious, and horror-drenched epic that travels through the most bizarre corners of the DC Universe, now collected in the first Swamp Thing volume in the DC Finest line.Collects Swamp Thing #1–22; The House of Secrets #92, #140; The Phantom Stranger #14; The Brave and the Bold #122.