Dates
- Cover date
- February 1984
- On sale
- October 25, 1983
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #21 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition75¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition75¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0709893171502 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.
Barcode 0709893171502 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- The Anatomy Lesson · 23 pages
General Sunderland hires Jason Woodrue to examine Swamp Thing and determine how Alec Holland became the monster, but Woodrue discovers that Swamp Thing only thinks that he was Alec Holland. When Sunderland fires Woodrue, the scientist allows Swamp Thing to take revenge on Sunderland for the both of them.
Reprinted in
The Best of DC (1979), Swamp Thing (1987), Swamp Thing (1987), Saga of the Swamp Thing (1987), Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing (1996), Millennium Edition: The Saga of the Swamp Thing No. 21 (2000), Vertigo: First Taste (2005), Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 Special Edition (2009), Saga of the Swamp Thing (2009), The Saga of the Swamp Thing Special Convention Edition (2009), Saga of the Swamp Thing (2012), Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore (2020)