Animal Man #19

(January 1990)

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

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

Script

? [as Johnny DC]

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When Paramount Pictures announced a new Star Trek television series…

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Page also contains the weekly DC Checklist.

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

• in Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina (DC, 2003 series) ([December] 2003)
• in Animal Man de Grant Morrison (Planeta DeAgostini, 2011 series) (Marzo 2011)
• in The Animal Man Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) ([September] 2013)
• in Homem-Animal (Panini Brasil, 2015 series) #3 - Deus Ex Machina ([Março] 2016)
• in Animal Man by Grant Morrison 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([November] 2020)

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

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

Script

? (promo copy)

Pencils

Art Thibert (signed as A.T.)

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Their time is now… but time is running out.

Genre

science fiction

Indexer Notes

House ad for Time Masters (DC, 1990 series) #s 1-8 (February - September 1990).
Between pages 11-12 of story.

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

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

Script

?

Pencils

Kevin Maguire (credited)

Inks

Kevin Maguire

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Superboy: The Comic Book

Genre

superhero

Indexer Notes

House ad for Superboy (DC, 1990 series). Cover for issue #3 shown.
Per GCD, cover inker is Ty Templeton, not Kevin Maguire.
Appears between story pages 17 and 18.

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

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

Script

? (promo copy)

Pencils

Mike Mignola (credited as Mignola)

Inks

P. Craig Russell (credited as Russell)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gotham By Gaslight

Genre

superhero

Synopsis

House ad for Gotham By Gaslight: An Alternative History of the Batman (DC, 1989 series).
Between pages 20-21 of story.

Indexer Notes

Appears between story pages 20 and 21.

[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.