Swamp Thing #22

Far from his Louisiana bayou, the muck-encrusted Swamp Thing crouches low among the sun-baked rocks of the Arizona desert, his glowing red eyes locked on an advancing rifle barrel while a helicopter hovers nearby and a squad of hazmat-suited hunters closes in from the ridge above. Ernie Chan's cover work captures the tension brilliantly — a massive, otherworldly creature cornered by organized human force in an arid landscape that couldn't feel more alien to him. "Monster Hunt in the Arizona Desert!" promises a 1976 DC adventure — "The Solomon Plague" — that puts this fan-favorite creature well outside his comfort zone.