He quickly realizes that the fungus has an alien origin. He notices the meteorite and the fungus on it, and uses his connection to The Green to try to establish contact with it. Swamp Thing comes across Clark's collapsed form. Delirious, he grabs the meteorite and wanders through the flames and swamp, hallucinating that he is in the Scarlet Jungle. He rents a car, and drives to Louisiana, but he falls asleep at the wheel, and the car crashes in flames. He takes the meteor with him, just in case. He chooses to go south, to a place without indigenous super humans. Knowing that he has been infected, Kal-El understands that he will soon die. He uses his X-Ray vision to try to find an antidote, but that power fails him after a short time. Realizing that he has few options left, he returns to the Institute for Extra-terrestrial Studies as Superman, and borrows the meteorite from Dr. Soon after the seminar, Clark notices that his powers are acting up.

The Bloodmorel grows and thrives within the Kryptonian bloodstream causing fever, bouts of incapacitation, hallucinations, chronic overexertion, and eventually, in 92% of cases, death. Thinking back, he recalls an entry in Rem-Ul's Almanac of Old Krypton which is dedicated to a fungus known as Bloodmorel, native to the Scarlet Jungle. Clark wonders if perhaps the fungus originates from Krypton. Everett, who has discovered a meteorite bearing a patch of living fungus which managed to survive for years in a frigid vacuum without being destroyed. Synopsis for Superman and Swamp Thing: 'The Jungle Line'Ĭlark Kent and Lana Lang attend a seminar by a Dr. 2 Appearing in Superman and Swamp Thing: 'The Jungle Line'.1 Synopsis for Superman and Swamp Thing: 'The Jungle Line'.

Swamp Thing, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore