(January 1990)

DC, 1988 Series
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Price
1.50 USD; 1.85 CAD; 0.80 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1989-11-30
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Karen Berger (credited) (editor); Art Young (credited) (associate editor); Dick Giordano (credited) (VP - editorial); Jenette Kahn (credited) (editor-in-chief)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Animal Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Brian Bolland (signed as Bolland)
Inks
Brian Bolland (signed as Bolland)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Animal Man; James Highwater
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

DCI with Johnny DC / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

A New Science of Life (Table of Contents: 2)

Animal Man / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Grant Morrison (credited)
Pencils
Chas Truog (credited)
Inks
Doug Hazlewood (credited)
Colors
Tatjana Wood (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)

Job Number
G-5319
Genre
superhero
Characters
Animal Man [Buddy Baker]; James Highwater; Ellen Baker; Cliff Baker; Maxine Baker
Synopsis
In his vision, Buddy encounters the original version of Animal Man (from Strange Adventures) who protests his replacement. When Animal Man comes out of his vision, he returns home to his greatest tragedy.
Reprints

[Promo for Time Masters limited series] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Rip Hunter... Time Master / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Superboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Animal Writes / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Art Young (credited) (letter responses)
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
When page 23 of "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" came up…

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Hurrican Heeran, Chris Ravenswood, Alf, Jim Kelly, Charles Ehrenpreis, Janine Coles, Neil Ahlquist, Charles J. Sperling and Mike Aragona, with replies from Young. Also DC publisher credits and next issue blurb.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Animal Man
  2. 1. ["When Paramount Pictures announced a new Star Trek television series…"]
    DCI with Johnny DC
  3. 2. A New Science of Life
    Animal Man
  4. 3. [Promo for Time Masters limited series]
    Rip Hunter... Time Master
  5. 4. ["Superboy: The Comic Book"]
    Superboy
  6. 5. ["Gotham By Gaslight"]
    Batman
  7. 6. ["When page 23 of "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" came up…"]
    Animal Writes
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Mark Gordon
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Pat Lang
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Jim Van Dore