Yesterday, Swamp Thing was looking to his left at someone...or something.
Specifically, Man-Thing, the similarly themed swamp creature created by Marvel Comics who first appeared in print in the May 1971 of Savage Tales--just two months before Swamp Thing's debut in DC's House of Secrets.
The latter is more famous, most likely because of legendary writer Alan Moore's tenure on the Swamp Thing comic book in the 1980s. (Moore would go on to write essential graphic novels like Watchmen, The Killing Joke and From Hell.) Swamp Thing also had two movies--the first one is decent in a campy way, while the second should be avoided if at all possible--as well as a TV series and a cartoon.
Man-Thing? He had a movie that went straight to Sci-Fi Channel. Given how awful "Sci-Fi Original Movies" usually are, Man-Thing looks good by comparison. (In reality...yikes.)
Man-thing also had one other thing going for him. Back in the '70s, Marvel also published quarterly issues with extra pages and backup reprints. What did they call these special issues? Giant-Size Man-Thing.
Yes. Well.
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