Comic Title: Swamp Thing #80
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: Winter 1988
On Sale Date: September 27, 1988 Shipping Date September 27, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 29, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #149

Copyright Date October 4, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "The Longest Day"
Pages: 24

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

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

Reprinted In:
Swamp Thing:Infernal Triangles TPB (2007)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #79; next appearance in Swamp Thing #82)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abby Cable (last appearance in Swamp Thing #78; next appearance in Swamp Thing #81)
• Chester Williams (last appearance in Swamp Thing #79; next appearance in Swamp Thing #81)
• Parliament of Trees (last appearance in Swamp Thing #72; next appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #5)

Villain(s)

• Dominators (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Invasion #1)

Other Character(s)

• Bog Venus, Kettle Hole Devil, Saint Columba, and Ghost Hiding in the Rushes (last appearance in Swamp Thing #74; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story leads to the Invasion series.

Synopsis:
Swamp Thing visits the Parliament of Trees to tell them that the crisis posed by the Sprout has been resolved. They warn him of an impending attack by alien forces. The Parliament tell him that he will be destroyed despite their warning.

On four alien worlds, elementals from the Parliament arrive and discover machinery aimed at Earth. The aliens observe the elementals, then activate the machines. On Earth, Swamp Thing's perceptions are increased by the alien machines causing his mind to overload. He attempts to flee the Earth by sending his consciousness into space, but the aliens have prepared for this. As a result Swamp Thing vanishes. The aliens conclude that he no longer poses a threat to their invasion.

On Earth Abby returns from a trip into town to find her home in the swamp wilted and decayed, signaling the fact that her husband is gone.