Comic Title: Swamp Thing #18
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1975
On Sale Date: June 3, 1975 Newsstand Date June 3, 1975
Source: Comic Reader, #119

Copyright Date June 5, 1975
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1975

Frequency: Monthly (with the exception of June, Aug., Nov., Feb.)
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "Village of the Doomed"
Pages: 18

Feature(s):
Swamp Thing (of Earth-1)

Writer: David Michelinie
Artist: Nestor P. Redondo
Letterer: Marcos Pelayo
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Swamp Thing:The Bronze Age Omnibus HC (2017)
Swamp Thing:The Bronze Age Vol. 2 TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #17; next appearance in Swamp Thing #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Abigail Arcane (last appearance in Swamp Thing #17; next appearance in Swamp Thing #19)
• Matt Cable (last appearance in Swamp Thing #17; next appearance in Swamp Thing #19)
• Bolt (last appearance in Swamp Thing #17; next appearance in Swamp Thing #19)

Villain(s)

• Aubrey and Marion Trask (Aubrey dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The residents of Serenity Village (no further appearances)
• Two demons (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Nicholas Trask (no further appearances)
• The director of Serenity Village (as a corpse; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Following a helicopter crash Matt Cable leads a group through the Florida swamps. They reach Serenity Village, an odd-looking retirement community. While Cable seeks medical assistance for Bolt, Swamp Thing leaves the group.

The village is led by Aubrey Trask, a man seeking to restore the youth of his friends with the occult. He soon takes Matt, Abby, and Bolt prisoners. Meanwhile, Swamp Thing rescues a man from being attacked by a demon in the swamps. The man flees into the village and is also caught. This man is Nicholas Trask, Aubrey's son.

Swamp Thing follows Trask back to the village. While he rescues the others, Nicholas destroys the occult book used by his father which breaks the spell. Matt and Bolt have their youth restored. Aubrey turns old once again and succumbs to a heart attack.