Swamp Thing #14
Swamp Thing #14 marks the precise hinge point where the original Bronze Age series shifted creative voices: it is David Michelinie's debut as writer, taking the baton directly from Len Wein, who had helmed every one of the previous thirteen issues. That transition — from the Wein/Wrightson era's gothic mood to a slightly more overt, science-fiction-inflected tone — makes this issue the opening chapter of what DC later defined as the second half of the first series, collected separately as Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Vol. 2. The story itself, in which the creature instinctively sides with a band of telekinetic outcast children against a hostile mob, distills the character's core thematic identity — the monster as empathetic outsider — and demonstrates that the title's social consciousness survived the creative handover intact.
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When Len Wein concluded his landmark thirteen-issue founding run, DC handed the scripting duties to David Michelinie, a writer who would later go on to significant work elsewhere in the DC and Marvel libraries. Nestor Redondo, the Filipino artist who had already been drawing the book since issue #11 (following Bernie Wrightson's departure after issue #10), continued as penciler, inker, and cover artist, providing visual continuity across the transition. Editor Joe Orlando, who had overseen the title from its inception, remained in place. The letterer on the story was Marcos Pelayos, whose credit was reconstructed from the letters page of a later issue, reflecting the era's sometimes informal production record-keeping.
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- Cover-dated February 1975; part of DC's original Swamp Thing Volume 1 series (1972–1976), which ran for 24 issues total.
- Story title: 'The Tomorrow Children' — Swamp Thing protects a group of children with telekinetic powers from a mob of fearful townspeople.
- First issue written by David Michelinie, who replaced series creator Len Wein (writer of issues #1–13).
- Art (pencils, inks, and cover) by Nestor Redondo, who had taken over from founding artist Bernie Wrightson beginning with issue #11.
- Edited by Joe Orlando; lettered by Marcos Pelayos (credit reconstructed from a later issue's letters page).
- A Mark Jeweler advertisement insert variant of this issue exists.
- Reprinted in Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Vol. 2 (paperback), which collects issues #14–24 alongside The Brave and the Bold #122 and #176, DC Comics Presents #8, and Challengers of the Unknown #81–87.
- Also included in the Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus hardcover, which collects the complete first series (#1–24) alongside related material.
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Reprinted in Spectral #13 (1976), Topp-serien [Toppserien] #6/1977 (1977), Gigant #3/1985 (1985), Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus #[nn] (2017), Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age #2 (2020)
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