Comic Title: Swamp Thing #82
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: January 1989
On Sale Date: November 29, 1988 Shipping Date November 29, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #10

Shipping Date December 1, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #153

Direct Market Date December 1, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75

Copyright Date December 13, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Brothers in Arms Part Two"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Swamp Thing (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Rick Veitch
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #80; next appearance in Swamp Thing #83)

Guest Star(s)

• Sgt. Rock (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Easy Company (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80)
• Little Sure Shot (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Wild Man (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Bulldozer (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Unknown Soldier (disguised as Pappy, Easy's medic; also called Miller; last appearance in Unknown Soldier #6; next appearance in Unknown Soldier #11)

Villain(s)

• Anton Arcane (as a Nazi general; last appearance in Swamp Thing #83; next appearance in Swamp Thing #59)
• A Nazi colonel (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Several Un-Men (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Alexander Holland (aka Lazarus; no further appearances)

Comments:
Swamp Thing travels back in time to the final days of World War II in this story. All characters except for Swamp Thing appear contemporary to that era.

This story continues in part in Swamp Thing #83.

Synopsis:
Swamp Thing's consciousness awakens in the body of a dead soldier named Alexander Holland. Although confused, he is able to reanimate the boy's body making him seem to be alive. Holland is under the command of Sgt. Rock who nicknames him Lazarus after he apparently rises from the dead.

Swamp Thing eventually learns that the date May 1945. He has no recollection of how he traveled into the past. As these of the last days of World War II in Europe, Easy Company is being recalled from action. However, they receive an assignment to carry out one last mission. They are ordered to raid a farmhouse.

Rock and Swamp Thing, still in Holland's body, approach the house. Holland plans to release some animals as a diversion, but at the last minute the orders change. An air strike has now been ordered. Rock tries to retrieve Holland before the strike begins, only to find him dead.

Swamp Thing has left the body of Holland and creates a new body for himself. He has sensed the presence of Anton Arcane inside the house. Arcane is a Nazi General who claims to be responsible for Hitler's rise to power. He receives a mystical talisman known as the Claw of Aelkhund from a Nazi colonel who has been collecting supernatural items. When Swamp Thing attacks, Arcane uses the Claw to vanquish him. Arcane has no knowledge of who Swamp Thing is, but this encounter will drive his obsession in the future.

The air strike then destroys the farmhouse. A bull gores Arcane and carries him away. Despite this, the master of evil survives. The Unknown Soldier then takes possession of the other mystic artifacts.