Swamp Thing, Vol. 2 #116 (1991)
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Description
The Growing Season
A boy named Casey Quigley finds a still living tuber within one of Swamp Thing's discarded bodies. He plants it. He and his mother Lena live a hard life of poverty with her husband and Casey's father, Dan, the principal source of misery. Lena would like to take Casey and live in Missouri, free of Dan, but keeps putting this off. The tuber begins to grow into a large tree. Dan returns home one day, saved and now a fundamentalist. Except for the secret sins, like drinking. When Casey tries to check on his tree, Dan insists he go to church, asserting that the swamp is one of the Devil's places. One day, when Lena has thrown away Dan's stash of wine, he becomes enraged and prepares to beat her; Casey talks back to him and runs away with Dan hot on his heels! Casey reaches the monstrous tree and climbs its passages, past faux organs. Dan follows, growing angrier by the minute. Casey reaches a pool of acid - the stomach analogue. Dan slips and falls into that pool! Neighbors do not know what became of the Quigleys until he receives a letter from Casey, post marked Missouri, telling him to pick all the tomatoes he wants from the Quigley trailer garden. Waiting for new folks to move into that trailer, he muses that nothing's ever quite the same after the growing season...
Release Date: 1991
THE HIGH GRADES (Investment Quality)
- 9.9 – 10.0 MINT: Near perfect. No discernible defects.
- 9.8 NM/MT: High-end; negligible stress or bindery tears.
- 9.6 NM+: Nearly perfect; very minor surface wear.
- 9.4 NM: Standard high-grade; minor corner blunting.
- 9.2 NM-: Excellent; small stress lines (no color break).
- 9.0 VF/NM: Great eye appeal; minor spine stress.
THE MID GRADES (Collector Quality)
- 8.5 VF+: Clean copy; small amount of wear/creasing.
- 8.0 VF: Very attractive; minor surface wear or foxing.
- 7.5 VF-: Slight accumulation of defects; minor blunting.
- 7.0 FN/VF: Solid copy; minor creases or color breaks.
- 6.0 FN: Average mid-grade; small spine splits or tears.
- 5.0 VG/FN: Significant wear; small pieces may be missing.
THE LOW GRADES (Reader Quality)
- 4.0 VG: Average used copy; heavy creasing or scuffing.
- 3.0 GD/VG: Heavily read; major creases or staple rust.
- 2.0 GD: Well-worn; covers may be detached but present.
- 1.0 FR: Heavily damaged; large chunks missing.
- 0.5 PR: Fragile; missing pages or severe degradation.
Our raw grading is an opinion based on 30+ years of experience. We do not guarantee a specific numeric grade from 3rd party services (CGC/CBCS) but strive for maximum accuracy.
