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- <text id=89TT1771>
- <title>
- July 10, 1989: Business Notes:Comic Books
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 10, 1989 You Bet Your Life:Pete Rose
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- COMIC BOOKS
- Swamp Thing's Quagmire
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Swamp Thing, the plantlike hero of a DC Comics series for
- adults, is taking an involuntary vacation. Swamp Thing had been
- traveling through time in recent issues, meeting personalities
- ranging from Adolf Hitler to King Arthur. But an encounter with
- Jesus of Nazareth has proved too provocative. DC's editor in
- chief, Jenette Kahn, canceled the June issue (No. 88), in which
- Swamp Thing appears at the Garden of Gethsemane bearing the Holy
- Grail. Said Kahn: "We believed that the story concept would be
- offensive to many of our readers."
- </p>
- <p> Kahn's decision prompted series writer Rick Veitch to
- resign in protest from DC, a subsidiary of Warner
- Communications. He says, "I expected the same creative freedom
- that goes with writing a novel." The series' 50,000 fans are in
- an uproar. Says Stephen Kelleher, manager of Big Apple Comics
- in New York City: "Swamp Thing was only meeting Jesus. It's not
- like they were going to sing show tunes or perform high jinks."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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