Covering the era of the Hellblazer: Dead In America limited series (2024-2025)…
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America follows on from Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell’s 12-issue run in 2020-2021 and features the Alec Holland version of Swamp Thing.
Appearances that I consider to be fairly minor are indented. The below titles were published by DC Comics unless otherwise noted.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #1
March 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p, c]
A few weeks after the events of John Constantine: Hellblazer (2020), Constantine, Nat and Noah are in Florida avoiding the English police. Constantine’s body is dead and has begun to decompose. He meets with a demon to negotiate for the soul of his damned son Noah, but another spirit in the form of a girl guide arrives and prevents Constantine from cheating the demon. John, Nat and Noah travel in a double-decker bus westward. Constantine is visited by Dream, who knows that John used some of the sands in his pouch (Sandman #3, Mar. 1989) and needs his help undoing other problems caused by Dream’s absence through much of the 20th Century. The British trio are pulled over by a cop but use a spell to immobilise him. They travel to a Louisiana bayou to find Swamp Thing but discover it has been transformed into a golf course and Swamp Thing has lost his memories.
Swamp Thing appears in the final panel.
Poison Ivy (2022) #19-#20
#19: “Chapter Nineteen”, April 2024
#20: “Chapter Twenty”, May 2024
G. Willow Wilson [w], Marcio Takara [p]
In #19, Ivy (Pamela Isley) is dying after Woodrue burst out of her body in the previous issue. Ivy recounts her past in a flashback. She attends college and meets her professor Jason Woodrue (who is researching plant/human hybridisation), and other students Philip Sylvain and Alec and Linda Holland. Pam and Linda collaborate on a research project until Woodrue becomes abusive and Pam starts a relationship with him. Woodrue introduces her to his secret laboratory and, when funding runs out, Woodrue manipulates Pamela into stealing supplies for the lab. In #20, the research continues and some of the plants are able to move around the lab by themselves, while Woodrue is dosing himself with an experimental formula. Pamela meets a new student Bella Garten and becomes jealous when she begins working in the lab too, but they begin a secret relationship. Pam is introduced to Bella’s own secret research into animal/plant hybridisation but Woodrue (who has now partly transformed into a plant) finds out. Pam agrees to be a test subject for Woodrue.
These issues primarily consist of flashbacks to Ivy’s college days, and Alec and Linda Holland appear.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #2
April 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p, c]
A policewoman who is following Constantine comes across the spellbound officer and slaughters him, then calls the police telling them that the murderers are in a bus. She also scares away a phantom hitchhiker who was earlier trying to get picked up by the bus. In New Orleans, Constantine meets with Clarice Sackville. She sends Nat and Noah on a mission to obtain a vampire’s heart, while Swamp Thing (who is being stored in a jar) grows psychedelic tubers for Clarice and John to eat and allow them to travel into a damaged Green. Swamp Thing begins to remember that he was lulled into abandoning his responsibilities by three women (including the figures who have taken the form of the girl guide and cop). Clarice admits that she is the Cumaean Sibyl of Greek legend, who was raped by Apollo but then given long life. Elsewhere, Nat and Noah witness a social media star being killed by a vampiric creature. The creature then returns to Clarice and de-ages her, and Clarice explains that her ancient gift of long life has run out and she is now staying alive by other means. Clarice refuses to help John. Noah and Nat arrive, hitting the vampire (Gwendolyn) with the bus, and Swamp Thing ultimately destroys it by growing inside it.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #3
May 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p, c]
In Texas, a militia man waits in the desert for migrants illegally crossing the border and thinks about Pecos Bill, a legendary figure from the South. The man shoots a Mexican woman, which causes the vengeful ghost of grief, La Llorona, to attack but the man is defended my a trinity of American spirits. After all the spirits have fought, the man learns that the woman he shot has a daughter nearby. Though the spirits urge him to kill her, he instead helps her, and then invokes Pecos Bill in a final battle of ghosts that results in his death. In the same area, Clarice is withering away without the aid of her vampiric bodyguard and she recounts her life to Nat, explaining that she was imprisoned as an oracle for centuries until her body decayed and she was just a voice in a jar. In the 1950s, Dr. Diablo then purchased the jar and brought it to that desert to ask Clarice how to open Dream’s magical pouch of sand. Once open, he gave Clarice a grain of the sand to restore her body. In the present, Swamp Thing helps them to locate the jar and the grain of sand, which Constantine removes to help them track the rest of the sand. They come across the skeleton of the militia man (who had died there a few years previous) accompanied by a letter of thanks from the younger Mexican woman who has since become a doctor.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #4
June 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p]
Constantine (dressed as a priest) enters a bar in Masaville claiming to be an exorcist. The town has a dark secret that has brought guilt and sleeplessness to many, and it blocks Swamp Thing from entering the Green and tracking the sand. Constantine leaves Noah in the bar empowered with the grain of sand and Noah shows the bartender (Tam) what a life without guilt would look like. When Constantine returns, Tam doesn’t want Noah to leave, and Constantine uses this to get more information out of her. Constantine explains to Noah that there was a rape in the town, but the six young men involved were set free. The victim later committed suicide, but this was covered up. From Tam’s reactions, Constantine realises where the girl’s body is hidden and he helps her find peace, which also allows Swamp Thing to track the rest of the sand further west. Swamp Thing goes on ahead to locate the sand. That night, every adult in the town has a dream that shows them what the rape victim went through.
Batman: The Brave And The Bold (2023) #12
“A Parting Gift” (pp. 46-55), June 2024
Zipporah Smith [w], Karl Mostert [p]
The body of Freddie Lafonta is dumped in the swamp and discovered by Swamp Thing. Freddie explains that he was murdered after confronting his bosses about dumping waste in the swamp. In the Green, Swamp Thing shows Freddie’s spirit that Freddie’s body is rapidly decomposing and becoming part of the vegetation. Swamp Thing vows to take care of Freddie’s mother and avenge his murder.
DC’s Spring Breakout! (2024) #1
“Field Trip” (pp. 1-10), June 2024
Joey Esposito [w], Vasco Georgiev [p]
Harley Quinn helps King Shark (Nanaue) escape from Belle Reve Penitentiary and into the Louisiana swamps on his birthday. They encounter Swamp Thing and Zatanna who are fighting an alien, and Zatanna accidentally transports them into space where they meet Hal Jordan. They then plunge to Earth and must be rescued by Superman, but they are all captured by Mr. Mxyzptlk and teleported to the Fifth Dimension. After conversing with Harley, Mxyzptlk soon bores of them and lets them go. King Shark returns to Belle Reve and Superman is thankful to Harley so makes an excuse for the Shark’s temporary disappearance.
Zatanna refers to Swamp Thing as Alec.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #6
August 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p, c]
Swamp Thing communicates with Constantine via a dream, explaining that the sand is in Los Angeles, but that he has been detained. Dream also appears and explains that an emissary will soon meet and guide them. When Constantine awakens, a strange man boards the bus in Las Vegas who Constantine takes to be the emissary. They find themselves at a police traffic stop, but the guest changes the bus’s colour to black to avoid detection and Constantine recognises him as a metamancer – one who can control a story and can interact with other comic panels. Clarice and Nat identify the man as Iggy Ballat, a comic book and screen writer who was with Dr. Diablo in the desert in the 50s. Iggy also desires the remaining sand and tells stories about Hollywood scripts he wrote that never got made, and about his comic character The Toll. The trinity of spirits appear as The Toll and hold the group at gunpoint, but Constantine forces Iggy to eat the sand and feeds him to the spirits while the rest of them escape. John is shot, and they discover the hitchhiker (who they’d passed multiple times) sitting in the bus. The hitchhiker is revealed as Dr. Diablo (Elliot Garner) and the true emissary. Suddenly, Constantine and Diablo vanish.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #7
September 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p]
Constantine and Diablo are in the Winchester Mystery House after having slept together. A month passes and Constantine is unable to locate the rest of his group. Diablo is missing his brain and some of his memories but attempts to recount the story of his life. In the 1930s he met T.S. Eliot, who was seeking the Cumaean Sybil again after having sold the jar to Roderick Burgess. Diablo became a psychologist to Hollywood stars, and obtained Dream’s pouch, and then regained the Sybil to advise him how to open it. He was later invited to the annual ceremony of the Bohemian Club in a grove of redwoods at Monte Rio. He failed to influence America’s leaders using the sands, so instead chose to empower the masses by making the leaders appear conspiratorial and cultish. Constantine takes Diablo to the redwoods and strangles him with the cord from Dream’s sand pouch, realising that Diablo sacrificed his infant child to be able to open the pouch. Constantine reasons that the three spirits could only partly destroy Diablo, with his important memories about the sand having followed that part of his soul to Hell. After having killed what was left of Diablo, Constantine ties himself to Diablo with the cord and follows him into hell. There they are greeted by Etrigan.
Swamp Thing is shown in a flashback at the Winchester Mystery House, which he visited in The Saga of Swamp Thing #45 (Feb. 1986).
Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter (2024) #1-#6
#1: “The Deathstroke”, September 2024
#2: “Fade To Black”, October 2024
#3: “Bat Country”, November 2024
#4: “Descending”, December 2024
#5: “Wreckage”, January 2025
#6: “The Day The World Went Away”, February 2025
Jay Kristoff [w], Tirso [p]
In #1, six months after the events of Dark Knights of Steel, the mercenary Slade (Deathstroke) wins a war for Jarl Vandar (Vandal Savage) and Caitlyn (Killer Frost) by assassinating an adversary. Slade is re-hired to capture a monster that threatens to destroy Vandar’s kingdom, which is devoid of colour. Slade and Caitlyn travel to a temple where robed figures are protecting the “beast”, but Slade discovers that one of the fighters is his ex-wife Addie. He injures Caitlyn to save Addie and learns that the creature Addie is protecting is a young boy who is rendered in colour. In #2, Slade, Alec (the boy who brings colour to objects around him) and the injured Addie recover at an inn. Alec and Addie continue on their journey to Gyllenhjem but are confronted by Slade’s daughter Rose, who has taken up Slade’s abandoned mission. Slade joins the fight but Addie is killed and Alec must use his powers to fend off Rose. In #3, Slade decides to accompany Alec to Gyllenhjem himself, following the directive given to Alec by the Green. Slade has an altercation with a stranger named Prince Bruce (who resembles both Batman and Superman) but Alec breaks up the fight and Bruce joins them. In #4, Slade explains that the kingdom was thrown into a perpetual winter when the jealous magus Viktor (Mr. Freeze) found that King Maxwell (Lord) was flirting with Viktor’s wife Nora. Alec recounts that his family were killed by invaders and he sheltered in the swamp and encountered a guardian of the Green. On their journey, Bruce becomes weaker as he travels further away from sunlight, and he abandons the quest after he is injured in a battle. Later, Slade is attacked by Rose and Caitlyn and thrown out of a tower, while Solomon (Grundy) reports the recent events to his master Viktor. In #5, Slade is rescued by William Wintergreen and taken to his underground base. They decide to assassinate Viktor by burrowing underneath Gyllenhjem, but first must rescue Alec. They kill Caitlyn and present Rose with a book that describes how the kingdom fell into endless winter. It explains that Viktor hired Slade and Wintergreen to assassinate King Maxwell but they accidentally killed Nora, enraging Viktor. Rose decides to help them overthrow Viktor. In #6, the group fight their way into the castle and kill Solomon. They encounter Slade’s young sons (turned to zombie-like creatures by the Allwinter) and are then encased in ice by Viktor, who has also frozen Nora to keep her alive. Addie (resurrected by the Green) and Bruce arrive to help and they all fight Viktor. Alec ends the Allwinter using his powers and resurrects Nora, while Addie and Slade’s sons are also restored to health. Slade suggests that Alec become king.
Swamp Thing does not appear in this series, which is set in the medieval fantasy world of Earth 118. However, it follows a young boy named Alec who has a connection to the Green.
Titans (2023) #14-#15
#14: “Dark-Winged Queen Part 7”, October 2024
#15: “Dark-Winged Queen Finale”, November 2024
Tom Taylor [w], Lucas Meyer [p, c], Marcelo Maiolo [c]
In #14, the Titans converge at a safe house where they learn that Raven (Rachel) is being controlled by her other self (the Dark-Winged Queen) and has been altering their memories. Raven fights demons and the Spectre, and imprisons them inside gems with the help of Trigon’s staff. She then fully transforms into the Dark-Winged Queen. Swamp Thing (Levi Kamei) joins the Titans to oppose the Queen, but Trigon also appears to fight alongside her. In #15, other heroes come to the aid of the Titans but fall against Trigon. Beast Boy converses with the Queen to distract her, while Tempest frees Raven from a gem. Together, Beast Boy and Rachel reason with the Queen and convince her that she is being manipulated by the Lords of Chaos and Trigon. Rachel and the Queen merge again into Raven, and she saves the injured Nightwing. Trigon threatens to destroy the world and claims that Amanda Waller had promised to deliver the Titans to him, so Raven takes on the power of the Titans and defeats Trigon. They later confront Waller.
Swamp Thing is a guest star in issue #14 but only appears in one panel in #15.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #8
October 2024. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Lisandro Estherben [p], Aaron Campbell [c]
Etrigan leads Constantine and Diablo through Hell. They come across Swamp Thing, who was tortured to reveal Dream’s mission. Etrigan agrees to let Swampy go if Constantine unbinds himself from Diablo. Constantine remembers using the sand to enlist Swamp Thing against the Brujeria, and witnessing Swampy plant a flower in Hell (Swamp Thing Annual #2, 1985, though Constantine does not appear in that issue). They come across a region of hell for the mentally ill, and Diablo finds the missing half of his soul. Angered, Etrigan sends Demons to attack Constantine, but he casts a conjuring spell that transports his attackers to the Winchester Mystery House. Now complete, Diablo recalls summoning the three spirits because he feared Dream, but they killed him. He also tells Constantine what he did with the remaining sand. Constantine commits Diablo to Hell in exchange for Swamp Thing. However, Dream set a trap within Diablo’s soul and he explodes, destroying many of the demons. Etrigan warns Constantine that Dream will punish him for using his sand. Other demons approach Constantine again but they still can’t touch him because he possesses Dream’s cord, and he helps Swamp Thing escape. Constantine admits that he got the pouch drawstring open by sacrificing his girlfriend (also in Sandman #3, Mar. 1989). Constantine makes a deal – willingly giving his soul in exchange for something he writes on a piece of paper plus another week on Earth. Constantine returns to Earth and recognises the three spirits as the Kindly Ones (also known as the Furies).
DC Vs. Vampires: World War V (2024) #2
“Chapter Two”, November 2024
Matthew Rosenberg [w], Otto Schmidt [p]
The vampire Mister Miracle flees a group of humans to protect his human baby girl. Green Arrow leads a number of heroes (Wildcat, Zealot, Swamp Thing and Killer Croc) to blow up a synthetic blood factory in a vampire city, but they discover that the building actually houses crops to feed humans. Constantine is suffering memory loss and is visited by Jason Blood/Etrigan with a warning. Vampire Aquaman meets with Lois Lane and other humans. Lois wants the existing truce to hold but Aquaman wants the humans to bring him the vampiric rebel assassin Damien Wayne after his attack on the vampire queen Barbara Gordon. Afterwards, the humans disagree about whether they should exploit the fighting between vampire factions. Damien’s mother, Talia al Ghul, wants to protect her son but she is later killed by vampire Wonder Woman as a message to Damien. Wonder Woman also threatens Alfred but he puts on a Green Lantern power ring.
The DC Vs. Vampires series and its spin-offs are set on Earth 63.
Poison Ivy (2022) #25
“Art Spread” (pp. 39-40), November 2024
Marcio Takara, Arif Prianto [p]
An anthology of short stories involving Poison Ivy.
Swamp Thing and the Parliament of Trees appear in an illustration at the end of the issue.
DC All In Special (2024) #1
“Alpha” (pp. 1-27), December 2024
Joshua Williamson, Scott Snyder [w], Daniel Sampere [p]
The Justice League expands its membership and numerous superheroes converge on the new Justice League Unlimited Watchtower in space. All members are given new membership cards that are embedded with advanced technology. Darkseid (now partly bonded to the Spectre) suddenly appears and must be expelled by a magically empowered Superman. This prevents a full merger between Darkseid and the Spectre, but leaves a rip in space, and some of Darkseid’s anti-life energies are transferred into one of the membership cards. The heroes detect a change to a hidden world (the Elseworld), which is only safe for time travellers to visit, so Booster Gold travels there to locate Darksied. Booster finds the Elseworld similar to Earth but controlled by Darkseid, and is set upon by Darkseid’s villainous army, the Legion.
Swamp Thing can be seen in one panel in the Justice League Watchtower.
Poison Ivy / Swamp Thing: Feral Trees (2024) #1
“Feral Trees”, December 2024
G. Willow Wilson [w], Mike Perkins [p], Jason Shawn Alexander [c]
Swamp Thing and Poison Ivy are drawn to the woods near Gotham, the site of recent disappearances, and sense that the trees there are protecting someone. The trees trap them and they encounter Kettle Hole Devil (a member of the Parliament of Trees), before Ivy allows them all to escape. They come to a maze and are separated from each other. Swamp Thing meets Jack In The Green who explains that the Parliament have been sent to investigate the disturbance, while Ivy meets The Hill. Ivy has a vision of a girl, Paula, who can control plants, but after she is abused and flees to Gotham, she becomes homeless and shelters in the woods. Ivy and Swamp Thing reunite and find Paula just as she is dying. Swamp Thing takes Paula’s body to become part of the Green, while Ivy (who is more sympathetic to humans) is upset at the inequality that exists in the world.
Kettle Hole Devil last appeared in Swamp Thing #80 (Dec. 1988). Jack in the Green last appeared in Hellblazer Special: Lady Constantine #3 (April 2003).
Justice League Unlimited (2025) #1
January 2025
Mark Waid [w], Dan Mora [p]
The expanded Justice League responds to threats around the world as Air Wave receives a tour of the Watchtower. A villainous group named Inferno threatens a South African mining town using advanced machines. Star Sapphire saves the life of a man after Air Wave helps her get in contact with the man’s wife. The League treats Air Wave as a hero but, privately, he feels guilty that he was sent to the League to infiltrate and betray them. In Costa Rica, Batman and Blue Beetle investigate reports of a monster in Costa Rica and discover strange pods in a forest.
Swamp Thing appears in one panel in the Watchtower.
The Flash (2023) #15
“So Below”, January 2025
Simon Spurrier [w], Vasco Georgiev [p]
The Justice League investigates solar, seismic and telepathic disturbances affecting the Earth. The Flash (Wally West) breaks up fights between people experiencing sudden bouts of rage until he too is affected and must be saved by his daughter Iris. Wally explains how Inspector Pilgrim allowed him to split himself in two, but his other self is not aware of their situation. The other Wally is camping in Skartaris (in the Earth’s core) with his family. He leaves to investigate strange phenomena but his powers disappear when he is far from his family. The rest of the family are attacked by a native lizard creature until Inspector Pilgrim appears and drives it away. Iris realises that the family dog Foxy is the source of great power that Inspector Pilgrim mentioned.
Swamp Thing appears in one panel with Mr. Terrific, assessing a disturbance to the ecosphere.
Poison Ivy (2022) #28
“Chapter Twenty-Eight”, February 2025
G. Willow Wilson [w], Marcio Takara [p]
Ivy speaks with a group who follow the teachings of the First Disciple in Seattle and believe that she is a messiah. When they crowd her, she renders them unconscious with a toxin. Later, on the way to Marshview, she encounters a threatening Xylon of the Grey wandering in the marshes, but is saved by the Bog Venus. Bog Venus explains that Ivy woke up Xylon when she was affected by fungal Lamia spores, and warns her that the Green and Grey may war if she continues to be worshipped. Ivy later meets Janet and Killer Croc, who have a secret romance. Ivy investigates a noise outside and sees a creature flee. When she is trying to figure out how to get to Seattle without being caught by police, a mist appears and she suddenly finds herself in that city.
Swamp Thing does not appear but Ivy encounters Bog Venus of the Parliament of Trees. Bog Venus last appeared in Swamp Thing #80 (Dec. 1988).
DC Vs. Vampires: World War V (2024) #5
“Chapter Five”, February 2025
Matthew Rosenberg [w], Otto Schmidt [p]
Green Arrow wants to kill the vampire Damien Wayne, who has come to the humans for help. Constantine meets with Barbara Gordon, who has recovered from her assassination attempt. He offers to bring her Damien Wayne in exchange for getting some of his memories back, but Damian arrives at the palace gates as a captive of Swamp Thing, who claims to want to exchange him for land. Damien vomits up several human superheroes made microscopic by Atom and they attack the vampires. Green Arrow wants to find evidence of human farming to prove that the vampires broke the truce. Instead they find that Flash (Wally West) has been maimed and forced to power a generator. Barbara believes that Constantine was part of the attack by humans and he is killed by Grodd. Elsewhere, vampires seeking the miracle child (Avia) beat up her father Mister Miracle, but Big Barda arrives to defend them. Miracle Man wants to flee instead of giving the child to its mother, Barda. He sneaks away while other vampires attack Barda, but is watched by Aquaman and his group.
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead In America (2024) #11
February 2025. DC Black Label.
Simon Spurrier [w], Aaron Campbell [p, c]
John has killed Noah and is set upon by the Fates, who plan to torture him for three hours until his deal with Hell times out and his soul belongs to Hell. Nat and the studio produced Dorman fight but Noah returns to life and intervenes, revealing that part of Constantine’s deal stipulated that Noah would survive and not be damned. Noah’s survival also means that the Fates do not have any power over John. Their connection to the sands become broken and Constantine argues that they broke their own rules of Xenia (the rules of hospitality) by treating some Americans unequally and unfairly. The Fates are then punished by Dream. To avoid his own punishment, Constantine shows Dream that Swamp Thing and the Green have now expanded into Hell, the Dreaming, and into the sand. Dream agrees to forgive Constantine, and also wakes Noah’s mother from her coma, stops the police look for the Brits, restores Swampy’s memories, and makes Nat the head of the film studio. Swamp Thing returns to the Green, and Constantine is brought back alive to the world, but his health is not restored. Noah, Nat, Swamp Thing and Clarice take Constantine to the ocean in his final minutes before he will be claimed by Hell. Clarice dies, but gives her voice is Noah who also forgives his father. Constantine enters the water, then meets Death briefly in a bar, before appearing in Hell half an hour early. All the demons are afraid to touch him and he goes back into Limbo to finish his drink with Death.
DC Horror Presents… (2024) #3
“The Chthonian Dawn” (pp. 1-10), February 2025
Francesco Francavilla [w, p]
Batman wakes up trapped in a coffin. He remembers investigating a mass murder at a laboratory and learning that Abigail Arcane was behind it. Abby has stolen a genetically modified strain of a parasitic weed that takes over other living things. When Batman breaks out of the coffin, he finds he is on a ship and looks back at the city overgrown with plants.
Swamp Thing is only mentioned but Abby Arcane appears.
DC Vs. Vampires: World War V (2024) #6
“Chapter Six”, March 2025
Matthew Rosenberg [w], Otto Schmidt [p]
Aquaman and his gang of vampires threatens to drown Mister Miracle and Avia. Jayna of the Wonder Twins tries to help but is defeated by Mera, who is wearing Black Manta’s armour. The humans care for Flash and decide to wage war on the vampires when a stranger (Metron) visits, notifying them that Constantine is dead. Metron is also seeking Avia but Supergirl and her group explains that she was killed by Aquaman. Barbara Gordon is part of a procession advancing towards the humans and they ignore a warning from an old lady (Granny Goodness). A battle between humans and vampires commences, with Supergirl and Wonder Woman fighting first. Suddenly, Darkseid arrives and demands to see Avia, but Aquaman tells him she is dead. Darkseid kills Aquaman and unleashes parademons on the world. Elsewhere, the dead Constantine finds himself in a black void and meets with Doctor Fate, Spectre, and Phantom Stranger.
Swamp Thing can be seen during the battle.
Justice League Unlimited (2025) #3
March 2025
Mark Waid [w], Dan Mora [p, c]
The Question tries to make Air Wave feel like part of the team and invites him to help tackle a fire in the Amazon basin. The heroes find that magical pillars are at the source of the fire and the terrorist group Inferno is responsible. Magical heroes open a portal to communicate with Inferno and learn that their motive is vengeance. Before that can be explained further, Dr. Occult enters the portal just before it closes. Mr. Terrific believes that Inferno are trying to control the Green so the heroes seek help from Swamp Thing (Levi Kamei) but he is suddenly burned to ash in front of them. Elsewhere, Plastic Man and the two Atoms (Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi) break into Phantom Girl’s (Linnya Wazzo) house and find that she has swapped powers with Plastic Man and can’t control them. The Atoms restore the powers to both Plastic Man and Phantom Girl, before they tell Plastic Man about the Atom Project.
Poison Ivy (2022) #30
“Chapter Thirty”, April 2025
G. Willow Wilson [w], Marcio Takara [p]
After an attack by Bella, Poison Ivy recovers in the woods and wonders about the new powers granted to her by the Green. She meets Xylon, who Ivy is able to understand because she once accessed the power of the Grey. Ivy hears about the ancient battle between the Green and the Grey for control over the planet. Xylon asks Ivy to help negotiate a truce by acting as an ambassador to the Green. Elsewhere, Janet wakes up and decides to research the abandoned town of Marshview at the library and discovers everyone left at once in 1958. Janet becomes scared and runs into the woods where she meets a member of the Parliament of Trees. It wants Janet to betray Ivy by sharing some of her secrets, and gives Janet an acorn to use as a spying device. Ivy and Janet then encounter each other in the woods.
Swamp Thing does not appear but Janet encounters Bog Venus of the Parliament of Trees.
Challengers of the Unknown (2025) #3
“Prof’s Hierophany”, April 2025
Christopher Cantwell [w], Sean Izaakse, Amancay Nahuelpan [p]
Professor Haley travels to Dinosaur Island with the Atoms (Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi) to study another Darkseid anomaly, which have put some of the other Challengers of the Unknown in hospital or quarantine. Haley and the Atoms encounter the intelligent primitives Anthro and Embra, who introduce the visitors to a being known as the Optimum. Optimum claims to be a version of Haley from the future after he has combined the Life and Anti-Life equations. Optimum demands knowledge of the Atom Project but the Atoms are suspicious and a fight ensues. Optimum invades Ray Palmer’s mind, but what he discovers causes Optimum to shrink to nothing. Afterwards, Mister Terrific doesn’t want Haley involved in the Atom Project and puts him in isolation with his friends. Elsewhere, Rocky is angry about what the League has done to his teammates and gathers other Challengers.
Swamp Thing appears in one panel, having created a barrier around Dinosaur Island.
Zatanna (2025) #1
“A Tilnoom Edalb”, April 2025
Jamal Campbell [w, p]
Zatanna prepares for a series of performances and meets with her crew at the Terpsichore theatre. She tries to make her colleague, Adam, feel less nervous. A painting of a performer, the Lady White, comes alive and pulls several crew members into the painting. Zatanna also enters and rescues her crew from various film sets across Lady White’s career. After Zatanna tries to rescue Adam, he stabs her in the back with a magic sword.
Swamp Thing is depicted on The Hermit tarot card.
Batman/Superman: World’s Finest (2022) #36-#37
#36: “20,000 Leagues Part Two”, April 2025
#37: “20,000 Leagues Part Three”, May 2025
Mark Waid [w], Adrián Gutiérrez [p], Dan Mora [c]
In #36, after investigating a fungal disease that has afflicted the citizens of Atlantis, Batman and Robin are attacked by the Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue). Superman is unable to assist after being captured by King Ronal of the Tritonians, but he is later freed with help from Lori, the Tritonian queen. Aquaman prepares the Poseidonians for an impending attack by the Tritonians, who believe that the Poseidonians were responsible for the disease. Aquaman and Superman try to reason with Ronal but the battle commences. Floronic Man explains that he has created this tense situation so that he can take over Atlantis with its magical flora. Batman calls Swamp Thing to help in the fight. The Tritonian army is defeated by Aquaman and Mera, but Ronal flies into a rage after seeing Superman and Lori kiss. In #37, Swamp Thing struggles against Woodrue, and the villain escapes. Aquaman speaks to Ronal and convinces him to join against their common enemy, Woodrue. When they resume the fight against Woodrue, Superman is trapped by magical plants, but the underwater heroes attack and drain Woodrue of magic, and Superman freezes him. Lori and Ronal reconcile, and the fungal disease is cured.
Justice League Unlimited (2025) #4
April 2025
Mark Waid [w], Dan Mora [p]
Mr. Terrific approaches Tefé Holland for help because of her connection to the Green, and she can sense the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Other magical heroes infuse Tefé with power and she helps to stop the fires and reforest the area, but Dr. Occult is returned through the portal by the Inferno and this restarts the blaze. Tefé takes Aquaman into the Green and they find that Levi is still alive but is being guarded by an agent of the Inferno. Tefé summons the Parliament of Trees to help free Levi, and then passes on her magic powers to him. Levi resumes restoring the forest. Afterwards, Tefé tells Aquaman that she doesn’t want to be involved with the League. In Egypt, Batman tracks down Martian Manhunter, who has fled after losing his telepathic powers and believes himself to be a danger to the team.
Aquaman (2025) #3
“The Rising Tide Part Three”, May 2025
Jeremy Adams [w], John Timms [p]
Aquaman travels with Arion and Vivienne, the Lady of the Lake, seeking to understand what has happened to his family. His companions explain that Dagon covets the power of the Blue and has cut it off from the rest of the universe, causing other dangerous creatures to emerge into the world. The heroes come to a place where they can forge a new trident for Aquaman, helping to fulfill a prophecy whereby Aquaman will become a vessel for a god who will kill Dagon. While Arion and Vivienne are constructing the weapon, Aquaman is visited by Lori Lemaris who stabs him with a blade that causes him to freeze. He is then transported to Dagon.
Swamp Thing appears in one panel when Arion is explaining how Elementals came to exist in the universe.
Poison Ivy (2022) #32-#33
#32: “Chapter Thirty-Two”, June 2025
G. Willow Wilson [w], Brian Level [p]
#33: “Chapter Thirty-Three”, July 2025
G. Willow Wilson [w], Marcio Takara [p]
In #32, Poison Ivy and Peter Undine fight a swamp monster who was once resident Ed Cooper and is now the spirit of the sickened marsh. Janet arrives and Ed breaks her back, so Ivy critically injures him. Ivy goes into the swamp and calls for Bog Venus to help heal Janet, offering to tell her what Xylon wants. Bog Venus notes that Janet is changing and heals her, while putting Ed out of his misery. Afterwards, Bog Venus takes Ivy into the Green for a conversation. Ivy insists that Xylon and the Grey want peace, but Bog Venus rejects this, insisting that the Grey must confess to its crimes. In #33: while Janet recovers, Ivy and Undine begin transforming Marshview. Later, Undine tells Ivy that Janet has a potentially fatal fungal infection from her exposure to the Lamia spores. Ivy considers how to get Janet treatment without alerting the police. Janet finds out about her illness and summons Bog Venus, who promises not to hurt Ivy if Janet can help separate Ivy from the influence of the Grey. Janet suggests that breaking the spell that hides Marshview from the world will expose Ivy and force her to leave. Meanwhile, Undine continues to work on improving the town but he and Ivy are interrupted by a police invasion. They find Janet and Ivy decides to fight back, asking Undine to seek help from the ecoterrorist group the Order of the Green Knight.
Swamp Thing does not appear in these issues but Ivy encounters Bog Venus of the Parliament of Trees.
Batman/Superman: World’s Finest (2022) Annual #1
“Chapter Three: Certain Doom”, June 2025
Christopher Cantwell [w], Dan McDaid [p]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing appears in one panel.
Superman: The World (2025) GN
“The Last Seed of Krypton” (pp. 89-101), July 2025
Mauro Mantella [w], Agustin Alessio [p]
The elemental spirit of the planet Krypton comes to Earth on a meteorite. It awakens when in proximity to Superman and inadvertently drains him of his powers because of its composition of Yellow Kryptonite. The Kryptonian elemental then proceeds towards Sachayoj – the Swamp Thing in Argentina – and the beings merge to begin transforming the planet into a new Krypton. Superman dispels the effects of the Kryptonite using light reflected from the moon and then propels a piece of White Kryptonite into Swamp Thing to separate the elementals. Alex Holland then addresses the Kryptonian elemental and accepts it into the Green.
New History of the DC Universe (2025) #1-#2
#1: August 2025
Mark Waid [w], Todd Nauck, Jerry Ordway [p]
#2: September 2025
Mark Waid [w], Brad Walker, Michael Allred [p]
Summary coming soon.
DC Vs. Vampires: World War V (2024) #11-#12
#11: “Chapter Eleven”, September 2025
#12: “Chapter Twelve”, November 2025
Matthew Rosenberg [w], Otto Schmidt [p]
In #11, Orion and the New Gods offer to help Darkseid destroy all life on Earth. The surviving superheroes and vampires agree to make a final stand together against Darkseid, but Damien Wayne kills the vampire queen Batgirl, which causes the groups to fight until the New Gods arrive. Many humans flee in vehicles, and Spectre guides them to a haven that Swamp Thing has created that is hidden by magic. Damien addresses the group and speaks of a weapon that the vampires were working on to defend themselves against Darkseid. Harley Quinn recalls and recreates the weapon’s designs, which she saw when she was captive, and Wally West volunteers to power the machine. Elsewhere, Wonder Woman (Diana) fights the Furies and kills Gilotina. Now queen of the vampires, Spectre brings her to the new sanctuary too. Queen Diana agrees to help but only if Damien is punished, so the Green Lantern Alfred Pennyworth volunteers to kill him. In #12, humans and vampires leave Swamp Thing’s haven to await Darkseid’s forces, while Cyborg finishes the weapon. Instead of being executed, Damien has been secretly transported to the House of Mystery where he meets with Constantine and Doctor Fate. Avia is also present, as the heroes switched her with the human baby possessed by Deadman. Because time moves differently in the House of Mystery, Damien Wayne is able to train Avia as an assassin for many years. The final battle begins on Earth. The superheroes’ machine is used to make the vampire infection airborne, but it does not have the intended effect on their enemies. Swamp Thing merges with the vampire Mammoth and they sacrifice themselves so that the vampire infection is distributed within seeds, and this manages to kill the parademons and New Gods. Avia appears at the battle and kills Darkseid, but Wonder Woman immediately turns on the humans. Supergirl and Alfred fly away and alter the rotation of the Earth, bringing sunlight to the battlefield and killing most of the vampires.
Taste of Justice (2025) #3
“Episode 3: A Taste of Hope”, July 2025. Digital only.
Andrew Aydin, José Andrés [w], Domo Stanton [p]
Summary coming soon.
Poison Ivy (2022) #36
“Chapter Thirty-Six”, November 2025
G. Willow Wilson [w], Atagun Ilhan [p]
Ivy has transformed Bella so that her touch is toxic to living things. Ivy then recuperates in Marshview with the Order of the Green Knight and eventually emerges to rally the group to take the offensive. Janet and Undine are concerned with how Ivy may change now that she has followers. Janet goes into the woods to talk with Bog Venus and asks to be cured, but she is abandoned and found by Wendy. Wendy alerts Ivy to Janet’s condition but Ivy accuses Wendy of causing trouble. Ivy directs her followers to target big polluters, but first wants to find out who betrayed her to the police. Ivy asks to see everyone’s phones but is interrupted by Undine who tells her that Janet needs urgent medical help.
Swamp Thing does not appear but Ivy encounters Bog Venus of the Parliament of Trees.
DC’s Zatannic Panic! (2025) #1
“What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse!” (pp. 53-62), December 2025
Andrew MacLean [w, p], Lee Bermejo [c]
In the swamp, Swamp Thing encounters Constantine who has been infected by a werewolf during an exorcism. Constantine is transformed and both battle the original werewolf. Swampy realises that the Wolfsbane flower reverses the effects of the curse and he cures both werewolves.
JSA (2024) #12
“Ragnarok Finale”, December 2025
Jeff Lemire [w], Diego Olortegui [p]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing appears in one panel.
New History of the DC Universe (2025) #4
December 2025
Mark Waid [w], Howard Porter, Hayden Sherman [p], Chris Samnee [c]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing is depicted with Justice League Dark, and also in relation to the emergence of Levi Kamei.
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‘DC K.O.’ crossover This event features a fighting tournament between 32 superheroes and villains. Justice League: The Omega Act Special (2025) #1 DC K.O. (2025) #1 Superman (2023) #31 DC K.O. (2025) #2 Superman (2023) #32 DC K.O.: Superman vs. Captain Atom (2026) #1 Titans (2023) #30 |
Mr. Terrific: Year One (2025) #6
“The Harder They Fall”, January 2026
Al Letson [w], Valentine De Landro [p]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing appears at the Spectre’s funeral, from The Spectre #62 (Feb. 1998).
Poison Ivy (2022) Annual #1
“Lake, Maiden, Sword”, January 2026
G. Willow Wilson [w], Mark Buckingham [p]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing does not appear but Tuuru, founder of the Parliament of Trees, does. (Tuuru also appears briefly in Poison Ivy #24, Sept. 2024). This issue shows Ivy’s ancestor interacting with the Green and its denizens in medieval times.
Batman / Deadpool (2026) #1
“A Magician Walks Into A Universe” (pp. 29-38), January 2026
Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson [w], Hayden Sherman [p]
Summary coming soon.
DC’s I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus (2026) #1
“Shine In The Silence” (pp. 41-50), January 2026
Nathan Cayanan [w], Michael Shelfer [p]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing appears in the background in two panels during a Christmas party on the Watchtower.
Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League (2025) #5-#6
#5: “Chapter 5”, February 2026
#6: “Chapter 6”, March 2026
Greg Rucka [w], Nicola Scott [p]
Summary coming soon.
Swamp Thing can be seen in one panel on the Watchtower in both issues.
[w] denotes writer, [p] denotes penciller, but I have included both penciller and inker if both are credited equally as artists. [c] denotes cover artist, but I have mostly only included the last in instances where Swampy is illustrated by someone other than the inside penciller.
Another Green World 