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| Title: | "The Screams of Hungry Flesh" |
| Volume: | 2 |
| number: | 5 |
| Cover date: | September, 1982 |
| Cover price: | .60 |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Credits | |
| Executive editor: | Joe Orlando |
| Writers: | Martin Pasko |
| Pencilers: | Tom Yeates |
| Inkers: | Tom Yeates |
| Cover artists: | Tom Yeates |
| Cover inker: | Tom Yeates |
| Cover colorist: | Tom Yeates |
| Colorists: | Tatjana Wood |
| Letterers: | John Costanza |
| Editors: | Len Wein |
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"The Screams of Hungry Flesh" is the title to the fifth issue of the second Swamp Thing ongoing comic book series by DC Comics. It is the first of two stories presented in this issue. It was written by Martin Pasko with artwork by Tom Yeates. It was colored by Tatjana Wood and lettered by John Costanza. The second vignette is a six-page story featuring the Phantom Stranger titled "...But the Patient Died!", and is written by Mike W. Barr with artwork by Howard Bender and Tony DeZuniga, colors by Carl Gafford and lettering by Milt Snappin. Both stories were edited by Len Wein. This issue shipped with a September, 1982 cover date and carries a cover price of 60 cents per copy (US).
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This issue begins with the Swamp Thing reluctantly arriving at the Barclay Clinic (a private clinic for treating Sunderland Corporation employees). Here he meets Dennis Barclay, a doctor who believes he has the power of psychic healing and seemingly treats Swamp Thing's wounds with only his hands.
Later, at around the same time that Elizabeth Tremayne arrives at the clinic, Swampy makes the disturbing discovery that a lower level of the clinic is full of unconscious human clones.
After learning about this secret, the Doctor, Tremayne and Swampy plot to leave before the corporation silences them but before fleeing they disconnect the clones from their coma-inducing equipment.
Before they are able to escape, Harry Kay and his goons confront the trio and finally explain the true nature of the clones. They are called Receptors and are programmed to absorb the injury and sickness of their human counterpart through psychic empathy. Their purpose is to prevent any loss of productivity of the Sunderland Corporation employees but they are also fully sentient and aware.
The Receptors wake up and seek revenge for the pain and suffering they are inflicted. Tremayne, Barclay and Swampy escape in an ambulance, Harry Kay narrowly escapes in a helicopter and the goons are left to the Receptors.
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Tannarak threatens to separate the Phantom Stranger's soul from his body and imprison it in a jar, but Frederick Rune and Joanna Helms enter the fray as pawns on either side.
- Mike W. Barr - Writer
- Howard Bender - Penciler
- Tony DeZuniga - Inker
- Carl Gafford - Colorist
- Milt Snappin - Letterer
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