Comic Title: Swamp Thing #58
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: March 1987
On Sale Date: December 18, 1986 Newsstand Date December 18, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #34

Newsstand Date December 18, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #106

Shipping Date November 25, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #34

Shipping Date November 25, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #106

Shipping Date November 25, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #111

Copyright Date November 25, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Notes:
This issue contains a preview of Spectre #1.

Title: "Exiles"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Alan Moore
Penciller: Rick Veitch
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Swamp Thing:Reunion TPB (2003)
Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 6 HC (2012)
Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 6 TPB (2014)
Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 3 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #57; next appearance in Swamp Thing #60)

Guest Star(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Swamp Thing #57; next appearance in Swamp Thing #61)

Villain(s)

• Keela Roo and Scira Ek (both die in this story; last appearance in Swamp Thing #57; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Swamp Thing #57; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #2)
• Sardath (last appearance in Swamp Thing #57; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #2)

Other Character(s)

• The inhabitants of Ranagar (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story reveals that Adam Strange was brought to Rann to help overcome the sterility problem that threatens the Ranagarans.

This story in continued from Swamp Thing #57.

Synopsis:
Swamp Thing returns to Ranagar to contact Adam Strange. When Adam sees him again, he believes that Swamp Thing is a threat until the plant creature begins speaking English. Swamp Thing then explains how he came to Rann and offers to help restore the Rann ecosystem.

When the Thanagarans learn that Swamp Thing is helping the Ranagarans, they become angry that their own aid proposal has been rejected. They attack Swamp Thing while he is trying to restore life to a barren desert. Suspecting trouble, Adam comes to his aid and kills the Thanagarans. He suspects that they wanted the zeta-beam technology to invade Earth.

After Swamp Thing is able to partially restore Rann's ecosystem, he plans to visit a planet near Minraud which is inhabited by a vegetable civilization. He asks that Adam deliver a message to Abby when he returns to Earth. After Swamp Thing departs, Adam learns that Alanna is pregnant with his child.