1971
House of Secrets 92
The first appearance of Swamp Thing. The 8-page story that started it all.
Series 1: 1972-1976
Swamp Thing 1-24 + the previously unreleased issue 25

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Non Title Appearances: 1973-1981
Like the mortar holding the bricks of the Swamp Thing chronology together, these are the comics that Swamp Thing appeared within outside of the Swamp Thing title.

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↓index of Comics that feature Swamp Thing – Series 1 Era: ’71-’81 ↓
House of Secrets #92 “Snipe Hunt” (Volume 1) July 1971 (1) (2)
Swamp Thing #1 “Dark Genesis” (Series 1) November 1972
Swamp Thing #2 “The Man Who Wanted Forever” (Series 1) January 1973
Swamp Thing #3 “The Patchwork Man” (Series 1) March 1973
Swamp Thing #4 “Monster on the Moors” (Series 1) May 1973
Swamp Thing #5 “The Last of the Ravenwind Witches” (Series 1) August 1973
Swamp Thing #5 “The Last of the Ravenwind Witches” (Series 1) August 1973 – Mark Jewelers
Superboy #198 “The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time” Oct 1973
Swamp Thing #6 “A Clockwork Horror” (Series 1) October 1973
Swamp Thing #7 “Night of the Bat” (Series 1) December 1973
Adventure Comics #431 “The Wrath of the Spectre/Is a Snerl Human?” February 1974
Swamp Thing #8 “The Lurker in Tunnel 13″ (Series 1) February 1974
Swamp Thing #9 “The Stalker From Beyond” (Series 1) April 1974
Swamp Thing #10 “The Man Who Would Not Die” (Series 1) June 1974
Swamp Thing #11 “The Conqueror Worms” (Series 1) August 1974
Swamp Thing #12 “The Eternity Man” (Series 1) October 1974
Swamp Thing #13 “The Leviathan Conspiracy” (Series 1) December 1974
Swamp Thing #14 “The Tomorrow Children” (Series 1) February 1975
Swamp Thing #15 “The Soul-Spell of Father Bliss” (Series 1) April 1975
Swamp Thing #16 “Night of the Walking Dead” (Series 1) May 1975
Swamp Thing #17 “The Destiny Machine” (Series 1) July 1975
Swamp Thing #18 “Village of the Doomed” (Series 1) September 1975
Brave and the Bold #122 “The Hour of the Beast” (Volume 1) October 1975
Swamp Thing #19 “A Second Time To Die” (Series 1) October 1975
Swamp Thing #20 “The Mirror Monster” (Series 1) January 1976
Swamp Thing #21 “Requiem” (Series 1) March 1976
House of Secrets #140 “Reprise: The Patchwork Man” (Volume 1) March 1976
Swamp Thing #22 “The Solomon Plague” (Series 1) May 1976
Swamp Thing #23 “Rebirth and Nightmare” (Series 1) July 1976
Swamp Thing #24 “The Earth Below” (Series 1) September 1976
Swamp Thing #25 – Unpublished, For reference purposes only
Challengers of the Unknown #82 “The Lurker Below” (Volume 1) September 1977
Challengers of the Unknown #83 “Seven Doorways to Destiny” (Volume 1) November 1977
Challengers of the Unknown #84 “To Save a Monster/When Deadmen Walk” (Volume 1) January 1978
Challengers of the Unknown #85 “The Creature from the End of Time” (Volume 1) March 1978
Challengers of the Unknown #86 “The War at Time’s End” (Volume 1) May 1978
Challengers of the Unknown #87 “Twelve Million Years To Twilight” (Volume 1) July 1978
DC Comics Presents #8 “The Sixty Deaths of Solomon Grundy” (Volume 1) April 1979
Super Friends #28 “The Spacemen Who Stole Atlantis” (Volume 1) January 1980
Brave and the Bold #176 “The Delta Connection” (Volume 1) July 1981
