Comic Title: Swamp Thing #72
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: May 1988
On Sale Date: January 26, 1988 Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: DC Releases, #48

Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #135

Copyright Date January 26, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Gargles in the Rat Race Choir"
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:Spontaneous Generation TPB (2006)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Captain Atom #16)

Guest Star(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abby Cable (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)
• Parliament of Trees (last appearance in Millennium #8; next appearance in Swamp Thing #80)
• Sprout (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)

Villain(s)

• Wild Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)
• Alden Hollandaise (an employee of Sunderland; no further appearances)
• The Swamp Knucker (first appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Roy Raymond (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)
• Morgan Edge (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #440; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)

Other Character(s)

• Lipchitz (last appearance in Swamp Thing #71; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)
• Mrs. Hollandaise and her child (no further appearances)
• Hollandaise's co-workers (Doyle named; no further appearances)
• General Sunderland (as a corpse; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #88)
• Brenda (last appearance in Swamp Thing #70; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)
• Carl (last appearance in Swamp Thing #70; next appearance in Swamp Thing #73)
• Nancy Ming (last appearance in Swamp Thing #70; next appearance in Swamp Thing #89)
• Rodney (last appearance in Swamp Thing #70; no further appearances)
• A shaman (last appearance in Swamp Thing #70; next appearance in Swamp Thing #74)

Synopsis:
Swamp Thing returns to the Swamp to meet Abby. He tells her about the plane crash which killed 300 people and sulks over not being able to find a suitable host for the Sprout. Meanwhile Constantine consults with a series of psychics, mystics, and mathematicians to divine the future. A shaman draws a picture of Abby holding a baby which surprises John.

Constantine then visits the offices of the Sunderland Corporation to meet Alder Hollandaise, who has hatched a plan to dispose of nuclear waste in fertilizer. Hollandaise mistakes John for a corporate headhunter and brags about his plan. Suddenly, he catches fire and falls into a pile of the fertilizer. After the man is consumed by the fire, Constantine walks away assured that the corporate scum bucket will not become the next elemental.