We want to thank everyone who donated to the Hero Initiative, a fantastic organization that helps comic creators who need medical care, financial support, and paying work, as well as everyone who shared our contest! Huge thanks to IDW Publishing, too. However, it is very likely that both men drew their inspiration from the same source, which is the classic 1940s character, The Heap.Hey everyone! We have a winner for our contest benefiting the Hero Initiative: Scott Rowland is now the proud owner of a Walter Simonson’s Thor: The Return of Beta Ray Bill Artist’s Edition hardcover from IDW Publishing! So they did not take the idea from each other. It was a protagonist who could never interact with anybody so I came up with the idea of fear. In Gerry's first story anything the Man-Thing touched burned. The weirdest aspect is that I actually wrote the second Man-Thing story the whole 'Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch'. Neither of us knew the other was doing the same thing. We were doing Swamp Thing and Gerry and I think Gray Morrow was doing Man-Thing. One of which is that I was rooming with Gerry Conway who wrote the first Man-Thing story.

So, since they are both similar in appearance, and since they both live in the swamp, you would think that perhaps that one of them is inspired by the other, but this is not so, according to the writers (note that editor Roy Thomas is also credited with inventing Man-Thing, along with Conway and Morrow).įrom a nice interview here, here is Len Wein on the topic: Swamp Thing first appeared in House of Secrets #92 (June-July 1971), written by Len Wein with art by Bernie Wrightson. Man-Thing first appeared in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), written by Gerry Conway with art by Gray Morrow.

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