Comic Title: Secret of the Swamp Thing TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: September 8, 2005 Direct Market Date September 8, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #7 (#199)

Direct Market Date September 8, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Thursday, September 8, 2005

Direct Market Date September 8, 2005
Source: Comic Shop News, #948

Cover Price: $9.99
Page Count: 232
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (The Last of the Ravenwind Witches)
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Swamp Thing (of Earth-1)

Writer: Len Wein
Artist: Bernie Wrightson
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino

Reprinted From:
Swamp Thing #5 (1973)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #4; next appearance in Swamp Thing #6)

Villain(s)

• Gideon (leader of an angry mob; no further appearances)
• The townspeople of Divinity (Jocko and Smith named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Rebecca Ravenwind (a suspected witch; no further appearances)
• Timothy Ravenwind (Rebecca's brother; no further appearances)
• Patrick Larabee (a crew member on a cargo ship; first name revealed in Swamp Thing #6; no further appearances)
• Robot doubles of Alec and Linda Holland (first appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #6)
• The crew of a cargo ship (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Alec Holland (in flashback)
• Linda Holland (in flashback)

Comments:
Swamp Thing loses an arm in this story which later regrows into a second mindless Swamp Thing in Swamp Thing #19.

Synopsis:
Swamp Thing stows away on a ship in order to return to America. However, he is discovered by the crew and forced to jump into the ocean. Swamp Thing washes ashore near Divinity, Maine. He is found by Rebecca Ravenwind and her brother. They are hiding from the townspeople, who believe Rebecca is a witch.

Swamp Thing tries to protect Rebecca, but the angry mob cuts off his arm and captures the siblings. Rebecca is forced to stand trial and is convicted of being a witch. She is then taken outside of town to be burned at the stake. Swamp Thing recovers, grows a new arm, and rescues Rebecca. She is not the true witch in the family, her brother Timothy is. His magic transforms the evil villagers into flowers. Swamp Thing and the Ravenwinds then part company.