Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing
DC · 1996–1998 · 24 issues
About the series
In the late 1990s, DC Comics collected Alan Moore's visionary run on Swamp Thing into a series of affordable, black-and-white trade paperbacks under its mature-readers Vertigo imprint. Spanning 24 issues from 1996 to 1998, this Essential line gathered the groundbreaking stories that redefined the character, with Moore's poetic scripts brought to life by artists including Stephen Bissette and Shawn McManus. These volumes made a landmark run—one that transformed the horror genre and launched the Vertigo sensibility—accessible to a new generation of readers.