Bernie Wrightson "Swamp Thing: Deja Vu" complete story FS, scans now up 0

[Flint Ironstag]

Hello friends,

For the first time, I've uploaded all 45 pages of Bernie Wrightson's pencil art for "Swamp Thing: Deja Vu" for your enjoyment and purchase consideration:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=16017

 

Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson reunited in the mid-1980s for a return engagement on Swamp Thing. "Deja Vu" was to be a three issue, fully painted prestige format comic. Combining elements of their original conception and Alan Moore's revamp, Len Wein said that Deja Vu was one of the best things he'd ever written. Bernie completed the initial pencils, and was working on refining some tight pencil pages (see page five here) in advance of the painting process, when he had an existential crisis and decided that you can never go home again... shelving the project.

Deja Vu is an amazing story, and it's all here, readable in Bernie's art and margin notes. The first half of the story has fun, even joyous adventure elements. The second half revisits Swamp Thing's origin from 1972 from a new perspective, and the plot takes a poignant and emotional turn, as horror and violence elements follow the pathos arising in the middle of the book. 

Truly great stuff, and worth reading in its entirety, even if you're not interested in following my twenty year caretaker position by adding the story to your collection, and being its caretaker for the next twenty years.

 

As this story has been kept together for thirty years, my goal is to keep Deja Vu intact and sell it together as one book.

I paid $250 per page for this art in the 1990s. I'm taking offers starting at $555 a page in 2018 (IE $25K for the whole book). That's pretty good for Wrightson Swampy art, and an opportunity to add a piece of history to your collection! Time payments are an option.

 

Pax,

Sean