Swamp Thing revisited.

I've had this one bouncing around in the back of my mind for a bit whether to do it or not.

Like the lost Arthur Gordon Pym sequels, it finally hit the critical mass of "fuck it, let's do it".

Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis (1991)

In Issue #8 of this collection, Swamp Thing comes to a small town where he saves a guy from a bear attack.

Some machinations by the (seemingly) grateful townsfolk lead him to a cave where he runs into a Shoggoth-esque Lovecraftian eyeball blob named M'nagalah.

M'nagalah says he created mankind, and gave them their propensity for violence, but he also gifted the great literary minds such as Lovecraft, Bierce, and Poe.

So, "Swamp Thing" takes the same tack as "Real Ghostbusters" and "Ring Shout"; that Lovecraft created his mythos under the influence (telepathic or otherwise) of real Elder Gods.

After M'nagalah lays out his super-villainous plans for galactic conquest, Swampy buries M'nagalah in a cave in, and wanders off to his next misadventure.

THE END.

So, that folds in the mainstream regular DC universe into Cthulhu-mythos.

So it's not just the Batman Elseworld of "The Doom That Came To Gotham" in its little pocket-verse.

And, that's one's squared away. 😎👍