Comic Title: Swamp Thing #84
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: March 1989
On Sale Date: January 31, 1989 Shipping Date January 31, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #12

Shipping Date February 2, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #156

Copyright Date February 7, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "Final Payment"
Pages: 24

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

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

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (no appearance)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abby Cable (last appearance in Swamp Thing #83; next appearance in Swamp Thing #86)
• Matt Cable (body dies in this story; last appearance in Swamp Thing #76; next appearance in Sandman #7)
• Chester Williams (last appearance in Swamp Thing #83; next appearance in Swamp Thing #85)
• Liz Tremayne (last appearance in Swamp Thing #79; next appearance in Swamp Thing #85)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #14)
• Eve (the mother of Cain and Abel; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Sandman #7)
• Dream (last appearance in Hellblazer #19; next appearance in Sandman #4)
• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #22; next appearance in Swamp Thing #88)
• Ritchie Simpson (last appearance in Hellblazer #12; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Hubert Sax (a hospital administrator; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Luban (a debt collector; on the telephone; no further appearances)
• An unnamed nurse (no further appearances)

Comments:
Before his body dies in this story, Matt Cable meets Morpheus. As shown in the Sandman's own title, Matt is allowed to carry on in the dream world as Matthew the raven.

Synopsis:
Abby visits Matt Cable in the hospital. Matt has been in a vegetative state for three years and the hospital expects Abby to pay for his medical bills. All records of his government employment with the D.D.I. have been erased. While Abby struggles to come to terms with her new debt, Matt is experimented on by doctors. Abby decides to pull the plug on Matt's body. Before she can act, Matt reaches into the dream world and is able to kill himself. Abby returns to the swamp, where Constantine offers to find the Swamp Thing. Abby turns down his offer.