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Alec Holland was a scientist devoloping a bio-restorative formula with his wife in the swamps when a thug named Ferret tried to take it from them. When Holland refused to turn it over, Ferrett had Holland knocked
out and planted a bomb in his lab. Holland regained consciousness just before the bomb detonated.
The explosion not only saturated Holland's body with the bio-restorative formula but also covered his
body with flame. Driven by pain, Holland ran into the swamp. He was already dead when his body
plunged into a bog. The Swamp Thing arose a few days after Holland's death and discovered that Ferrett and his men had killed Linda Holland. The Swamp Thing killed Ferrett and his accomplice Bruno in vengeance. The Swamp Thing then began a lonely life of wandering through the world, often finding himself in combat with various menaces, many of which were supernatural in nature. He always returns, however, to the swamp. Matt Cable and Arcane's niece Abigail eventually became the Swamp Thing's friends, and Cable married Abby. Relatively recently, the Swamp Thing learned that he was not actually Alec Holland, but a plant being whose consciousness was based on Holland's. Following Cable's hospitalization after an auto accident, Abby and the Swamp Thing became lovers, and the Swamp Thing now regards her as his wife. This excellent figure is based on a previous solid sculpture by Randy Bowen. It comes with an interchangable "normal" hand to replace the roses.
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