Comic Title: Swamp Thing #74
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: July 1988
On Sale Date: March 29, 1988 Shipping Date March 29, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date March 29, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137

Copyright Date March 29, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date March 29, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752

Newsstand Date April 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Center of the Cyclone"
Pages: 24

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

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

Reprinted In:
Swamp Thing:Spontaneous Generation TPB (2006)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; next appearance in Swamp Thing #75)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abby Cable (last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; next appearance in Swamp Thing #75)
• Sprout (last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; next appearance in Swamp Thing #75)

Villain(s)

• Wild Thing (dies in this story; last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; no further appearances)
• The Swamp Knucker (last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; no further appearances)
• Bog Venus, Kettle Hole Devil, Saint Columba, and Ghost Hiding in the Rushes (last appearance in Swamp Thing #69; next appearance in Swamp Thing #80)
• Two skinheads (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #7; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)
• Roy Raymond (last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; next appearance in Swamp Thing #81)

Other Character(s)

• Lipchitz (dies in this story; last appearance in Swamp Thing #73; no further appearances)
• Bobby and his partner (police officers; no further appearances)
• A shaman (as a corpse; last appearance in Swamp Thing #72; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Swamp Thing #73 and continues in Swamp Thing #75.

John Constantine's injuries are a result of his fall from a train, as shown in Hellblazer #7.

Synopsis:
Swamp Thing carries the Swamp Knucker to Mars where it can live alone. When he returns to Earth he finds Constantine injured and clinging to life. He forms an exo-skeleton around Constantine's body, then leads him to get help.

Meanwhile in the swamps, Abby encounters the limo driven by the Wild Thing. It chases Abby and the Sprout deeper into the swamp and surrounds her in a ring of fire. Swamp Thing rescues her, destroys the Wild Thing, and sets free the committee from the Parliament of Trees which had been bonded with it. He then must decide the fate of the Sprout.