Swamp Thing (Fictitious character)

found: Swamp Thing, [2014]:title page (Swamp Thing) back cover (Dr. Alec Holland is the Avatar of the Green, and for all plant life on Earth both god and guardian. He is the Swamp Thing)

found: Moore, A. Saga of the Swamp Thing, c1987:introd. (Swamp Thing; comic book created in 1972 by writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson; originally the story of scientist named Alec Holland, who becomes Swamp Thing; comic book later surfaced again under new team of writer Marty Pasko and artist Tom Yeates; Moore's volume picks up at the point where the Pasko/Yeates books ended)

found: OCLC, September 8, 2005(Wein, L. Swamp Thing; Moore, A. The Swamp Thing; Cannon, M. Swamp Thing; Diggle, A. Swamp Thing; Muth, J.J. Swamp Thing; Houston, D. Swamp Thing : a novel; Swamp Thing [VR]; The return of Swamp Thing [VR])

found: Wikipedia, viewed 17 February 2015(The Swamp Thing character first appeared in House of Secrets #92 (June-July 1971) under the name Alex Olsen. Swamp Thing #1 (October-November 1972) featured a new character, Alec Holland, a scientist working in the Louisiana swamps on a secret bio-restorative formula "that can make forests out of deserts". There have been many previous incarnations of Swamp Thing prior to the death and "rebirth" of the Alec Holland incarnation. Albert Höllerer, a World War II pilot, appeared in Swamp Thing #47 (May 1986), and Aaron Hayley appeared in the Swamp Thing: Roots, graphic novel (1998) set in the 1940s. Alan Hallman, the Swamp Thing of the 1950s and 1960s, was introduced in Vol.2 #102 (December 1990). Holland is known as Swamp Thing IV by the editors of the DCU Guide)