The Saga of Swamp Thing #8

Tom Yeates conjures a primal, unsettling tableau for this December 1982 issue — a wide-eyed woman in a yellow dress presses through tangled jungle vines while the moss-covered, red-eyed Swamp Thing looms protectively (or menacingly?) behind her, a golden medallion hanging from his neck. Pterodactyls wheel above a massive skull-shaped rock formation in the background, suggesting a landscape far removed from any ordinary swamp. With Martin Pasko scripting and art from both Yeates and Stephen Bissette on the interior, The Saga of the Swamp Thing #8 promises exactly the kind of lush, eerie adventure its cover delivers.