"The Lurker in Tunnel 13" is the story title to the eighth issue of the first Swamp Thing ongoing comic book series by DC Comics. The story was written by Len Wein with artwork by Bernie Wrightson, who also provided embellishment work for this issue. The cover art was penciled, inked and colored by Wrightson, who also colored the interior pages to this issue. The story was lettered by Gaspar Saladino and edited by Joe Orlando. This issue shipped with a February, 1974 cover date and carried a cover price of 20 cents per copy (US).
The Swamp Thing is warned by a dying old man not to go near the town of Perdition, whose played-out mines were restored by sorcery, but from whom people have been disappearing without a trace.
