At New York Comic-Con 2025, DC Comics announced several new series that will launch under its revived "Vertigo" publishing imprint next year. The most exciting announcement for longtime DC fans, though, is a story decades in the making.

DC will be publishing the lost final four issues of Rick Veitch's "Swamp Thing" run, under the title "Swamp Thing 1989," i.e. the year it was meant to first be published. At NYCC, DC Executive Editor Chris Conroy reportedly said the issues, #88-91, will be styled and published so that "you're going to be able to put [them] into your long boxes as if this run had never ended."

Why the long delay? This story, "Morning of the Magician," would've seen Swamp Thing travel back in time and meet Jesus Christ. According to Rick Veitch , Swamp Thing would've ap

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