#tatjana wood

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Sal Amendola and Al Milgrom Batman #296 Cover Art Scarecrow (1978) Source

Colors by Tatjana Wood

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Swamp Thing #73 (198?)

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Swamp Thing No. 21: The Anatomy Lesson

by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben

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Etrigan the Demon by Joe Kubert, from DC Comics Presents (vol. 1) #66 (February, 1984). Colors by Tatjana Wood, letters by Adam Kubert.

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The Brave and the Bold #147 ‘Death-Scream from the Sky!’ (1978) by Cary Burkett, Jim Aparo and Jerry Serpe. Edited by Paul Levitz. Cover by Aparo and Tatjana Wood.

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Swamp Thing #37. Rick Veitch, John Totleben (artists), Tatjana Wood (colorist), John Costanza (letterer), Alan Moore (writer).

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Out this week: Swamp Thing by Rick Veitch, Book One: Wild Things (DC, $29.99): Oh, now this is both interesting and welcome — DC begins to collect Rick Veitch’s run on Swamp Thing, which ended in controversial fashion. This first volume features the beginning of his run, from issue #65 through #73, as well as the issues of Hellblazer that crossed over around that time by Jamie Delano and John Ridgway. It also includes a story from Secret Origin #23 that Veitch wrote featuring the Floronic Man, with art by Brett Irwin.

The question I have, though, is whether we’ll see a second volume — and if that volume will include the version of Swamp Thing #88 that Veitch wrote and Michael Zulli drew, that featured Swamp Thing meeting Jesus Christ. The controversial issue was completed but never published, and Veitch quit the title as a result. Which is too bad, because it was part of a bigger time travel epic that Veitch never got to finish.

See what other comics and graphic novels are arriving in stores this week.

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(1980)

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Swamp Thing #72

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“the FURY”

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Awesome throwback cover and story!

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Ernie Chan House of Mystery #246 (1976) Source

Colors by Tatjana Wood

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Vintage Comic - Detective Comics #0454

Pencils: Ernie Chan

Inks: Ernie Chan

Colors: Tatjana Wood

Letters: John Workman

DC (Dec1975)

Is That Lady Cop In The Back?

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Swamp Thing No. 21: The Anatomy Lesson

by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben

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BEOWULF: DRAGON SLAYER (vol. 1) #2 (July, 1975). Cover by Ricardo Villamonte, colors by Tatjana Wood.

Beowulf: Dragon Slayer part of a push by DC Comics in the mid-1970s to expand their line beyond their core superhero titles, focusing a lot on sword-and-sorcery books (Stalker, Claw the Unconquered, Warlord, Beowulf). Conan the Barbarian was selling like hotcakes over at Marvel, and DC wanted to capture some of that same market.

This was the very first issue of Beowulf that I bought, as the comic book distribution system around my neck of the woods was pretty lousy. In fact, I believe I may have purchased this issue while visiting family in Nova Scotia that summer.

I only ever purchased issue #5 months later, before the title was cancelled with #6. I did manage to collect all six issues as an adult.

I was a little confused when first I read this book, as I had no knowledge at the time of the epic poem, Beowulf. The comic did make me seek out and read the poem, after which I learned that the comic story veered very, very, very far from the source material.

For instance, in the poem Beowulf never encounters space aliens armed with Star Trek phasers. Or maybe he did, and it was just lost in the translation from Olde English.

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DC Comics Presents #19 ‘Who Haunts This House?’ (1979) by Dennis O'Neil, Joe Staton, Frank Chiaramonte and Jerry Serpe. Edited by Julius Schwartz. Cover by Ross Andru, Dick Giordano and Tatjana Wood.