Quicksand Fans

Got a line on another scene... In the New 52 reboot of Swamp Thing, apparently he rescues a young couple from quicksand in Issue 1. I'm presuming couple means a man and a lady friend....

This is an oldie but goodie... hero and girlfriend about to buy it in quicksand, from 1938... and, yes, it is meant to be quicksand they are sinking in...

This comic page is the one which follows this panel...

Here's a scene from crime comics, where a mobster tricks his partners into quicksand in order to keep all the loot.

I redid the quicksand bit as a black and white comic, as I found the original color scheme off register to the point it was hard to see details in the art.

Cool find! Thanks for sharing.

PM2K wrote:Got a line on another scene... In the New 52 reboot of Swamp Thing, apparently he rescues a young couple from quicksand in Issue 1. I'm presuming couple means a man and a lady friend....

Looks like you were mis-informed. I found a copy of Swamp Thing v01. No QS anywhere within it's 153 pages...

Maybe a different or later issue?

BogDog wrote:

PM2K wrote:Got a line on another scene... In the New 52 reboot of Swamp Thing, apparently he rescues a young couple from quicksand in Issue 1. I'm presuming couple means a man and a lady friend....

Looks like you were mis-informed. I found a copy of Swamp Thing v01. No QS anywhere within it's 153 pages... Maybe a different or later issue?

I'll double check that....

My mistake... it was from the latest reboot of Swamp Thing (Jan 2016?)

Swamp Thing #1 – Len Wein, writer, Kelley Jones, Illustrator,

The first half of the issue is mostly narration and Swamp Thing wrestling an alligator – which, admittedly, is a lot of fun to watch. Things pick up when Swamp Thing rescues a couple from quicksand, only to find out that they came there looking for him. The couple’s son was the victim of a risky college experiment to raise the dead, and wound up in a coma – until he woke up and disappeared, and is now targeting the other participants in the experiment for revenge as a rampaging zombie. There’s a fun horror vibe to the title, and Jones’ art is excellently creepy, although I still can’t help but feel like Swamp Thing has been set back to an era of the character that doesn’t quite hook me like the character used to. Still, for a six-issue miniseries, the first issue sets up a good storyline, and it’s good to have the characters of the Dark line making a comeback.

That info from an online review.

I have it, and unfortunately it is a male scene. I'll post caps of it in a bit, when I get my scanner working.

Alec is headed through the swamp to rest when he hears Mrs. Wormwood scream for help that her husband fell into quicksand. Alec wades into the quicksand, and tells the husband to take a deep breath. They are seen as Alec walks out of the bog holding Frank, and he is revived.

Here's a straight forward one...of the be careful what you wish for category...

A friend who is into comics and knows a bit about my interest here alerted me to a page of art where a man is sinking in a swamp.

It gives a comic title - Princess - and a date in August but no year, so I asked if he could find out more, if the next issue or art it was available to see and he actually found a picture, though not very good quality as it's from an eBay sale. Apparently it's from 1964.

Nice find! Always liked these British/Commonwealth comics.

On a side note, love your tag line as well. Nice bit of prose there.