Comic Title: Swamp Thing #59
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: April 1987
On Sale Date: January 15, 1987 Newsstand Date January 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #35

Newsstand Date January 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #108

Shipping Date December 23, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #35

Shipping Date December 23, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #108

Shipping Date December 23, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #112

Copyright Date December 23, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Reunion"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Swamp Thing (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Steve R. Bissette
Penciller: Rick Veitch
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Swamp Thing:Reunion TPB (2003)
Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 6 HC (2012)
Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 6 TPB (2014)
Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 3 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (no appearance)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abby Cable (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #61)
• Patchwork Man (first post-Crisis appearance; dies in this story; last appearance in Swamp Thing #83; no further appearances)
• Chester Williams (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #61)
• Liz Tremayne (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #63)

Villain(s)

• Anton Arcane (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Swamp Thing #82; next appearance in Swamp Thing #76)
• Several unnamed demons (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Miss Claiborne (caretaker at Spanish Acres; next appearance in Swamp Thing #93)
• Townclock Jacobson and his family (no further appearances)
• Amy Tillsdale (a resident at Spanish Acres; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Three of Chester's friends (no further appearances)
• Gator (a caretaker at Spanish Acres; no further appearances)

Comments:
Swamp Thing's only appearance in this story is a cameo in Patchwork Man's memories.

Synopsis:
Since the disappearance of Swamp Thing, Abby Cable taken a job as a caretaker at Spanish Acres, a home for the elderly. When one of the residents dies, Abby leaves work questioning whether she can handle the depressing job. She receives a phone call from Chester indicating that a monster was recently seen in the swamps.

Abby and Chester visit the swamp in hopes that Swamp Thing is alive. Instead Abby finds her father Gregori Arcane, the Patchwork Man. Gregori has been stumbling through the swamps, confused, and looking for Abby. However, he does not want her to see him as the monster that Anton Arcane made him. Gregori flees into the rainy night and falls apart. In the morning Abby finds his lifeless body, but his head is never found.