Bog Swamp Demon

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The Bog Swamp Demon is a swamp monster that first appeared in the pages of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. His adventures were chronicled in issues #4 through #12 of Volume 2. Bog would go on to get his own series with award-winning Swamp Thing artist Steve Bissette illustrating the covers for the 4-issue run. Bog then went on to appear in Big Bang Comics number 15 and 16 from Image Comics and an issue of the horror anthology Hall of Horrors.

In the Mirage Studios comic book, Bog fought a horde of demons summoned by a coven of harpy-witch sisters living in the swamp. The demons took human form to do their dirty deeds but, being a demon himself, Bog saw them for what they really were and promptly dispatched them. Bog killed one of the witch sister's thus prompting the remaining two to conjure help from hell. The demon Bathym answered their call only to be killed by Bog who lured him to hallowed ground, a swamp-side cemetary, where he impaled the demon beast on a tombstone.

In his own title series Bog formed an uneasy alliance with a wayward priest and troubled teenage girl while he fought off various Hell-spawned super- villains. He was attacked from the nether-regions by Mogog, Baphomet, Helliphant-hideous beast from beyond and a family of malformed Hell-billies. Heaven also got in on the act by dispatching it's own avenging angel, Etherial, to try to vanquish Bog but to no avail. Bog reigned supreme over his swampy home even finding friendship with a mudpuppy-man named Hellbender.