Swamp Thing #23

Swamp Thing #23 from July 1976 heralds "Rebirth and Nightmare" with a cover by Ernie Chan that crackles with desperate urgency — a red-haired woman in white pleads with the blue-suited, knife-wielding Sabre to spare the creature below, as the muck-encrusted Swamp Thing rises from the swamp with an eerily human face beginning to emerge from beneath the vegetation. The cover copy teases something remarkable in the making, with the bold caption declaring that Swamp Thing is becoming human, lending the scene a poignant tension that goes well beyond a standard monster-vs.-hero confrontation. Inside, writer Gerry Conway and artist Nestor Redondo continue their run on this series, making this an intriguing chapter for anyone following the bog-bound hero's strange and haunting journey.