Comic Title: Swamp Thing #83
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: January 3, 1989 Shipping Date January 3, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #12

Shipping Date January 5, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Direct Market Date January 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #82

Copyright Date January 10, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "Brothers in Arms Part One"
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 (last appearance in Swamp Thing #82; next appearance in Swamp Thing #85)

Guest Star(s)

• Enemy Ace (last appearance in Captain Atom #13; next appearance in Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Chester Williams (last appearance in Swamp Thing #81; next appearance in Swamp Thing #84)
• Abby Cable (last appearance in Swamp Thing #81; next appearance in Swamp Thing #84)

Villain(s)

• Anton Arcane (earliest chronological appearance; as a World War I doctor; next appearance in Swamp Thing #82)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #636; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #641)

Other Character(s)

• Anais Arcane (Anton's mother; no further appearances)
• Gregori Arcane (as a child; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #59)
• Von Hammer's wolf (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Aniela Arcane (Anton's sister; no further appearances)
• Two French pilots (no further appearances)
• The Dean of the Hamburg School of Medicine (no further appearances)
• The Hangman (a French pilot; no further appearances)

Comments:
Swamp Thing travels back in time to World War I in this story. All characters in the main story except for Swamp Thing appear contemporary to that era. The epilogue, featuring Abby, Chester, and the Phantom Stranger occurs in present day.

This story is continued in part from Swamp Thing #82.

Synopsis:
The Swamp Thing is transported further back in time and finds himself in the body of a dead French pilot during World War I. The pilot was shot down by Hans Von Hammer, the Enemy Ace. Being an honorable man, Von Hammer orders the reanimated Frenchman cared for, but Swamp Thing is unable to form the words to communicate.

While her husband Josip is away at war, Anais Arcane is staying with her cousin Hans. When she learns that her son Anton has been expelled from medical school, she finds him performing his hideous medical experiments on wounded soldiers. She brings him back to Von Hammer's castle to work on the strange Frenchman.

Anton Arcane experiments on Swamp Thing and performs occult rituals using artifacts and books found in the Von Hammer family museum. Eventually, Anais discovers his barbaric practices. Anton attempts to use his mother is a sacrificial blood letting, but the Enemy Ace shoots Arcane. Swamp Thing, who can now speak, asks Von Hammer to use the Claw of Aelkhund to send him on his journey. Hans complies with the request, then seals the artifacts behind a wall in his castle. Anton, who survived the gunshot, has escaped.

Back in present day Louisiana, Abby learns from the Phantom Stranger that the Swamp Thing is neither in Heaven nor Hell. She also is informed by Chester that her benefit checks regarding Matthew have stopped.