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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published June 1990
Cover Price 1.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Karen Berger; Art Young (Associate Editor)
Notes Cover credits from Matthew Cettei on 24 May 2004. Cover prominently features several of the key comics that established the concept of the multiverse (Flash #123, Green Lantern #40, Justice League of America #21), plus many others.

Cover Details

Characters Animal Man; Psycho Pirate [Roger Hayden]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Brian Bolland (signed)
Inks Brian Bolland (signed)
Notes Cover credits from Matthew Cettei on 24 May 2004. Cover prominently features several of the key comics that established the concept of the multiverse (Flash #123, Green Lantern #40, Justice League of America #21), plus many others.
Reprinted in Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina (DC, 2003 series) #[nn]

24 page Animal Man story "Purification Day"

Characters Animal Man [Buddy Baker]; Psycho Pirate [Roger Hayden]; Power Ring (of Earth-3); Ultraman (of Earth-3); James Highwater; Hercules (from Hercules Unbound); Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz); Toto; Overman; Magic Lantern; Streaky; Bizarro; Krona; Sunshine Superman
Synopsis Animal Man discovers he is a character in a comic book, so along with James Highwater, he decides to send all the characters back into limbo. When the aliens return him to his home, Animal Man, knowing he is a fictional character, wonders who it is who causes him to suffer.
Genre Superhero
Script Grant Morrison
Pencils Chas Truog
Inks Doug Hazlewood
Colors Tatjana Wood
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina (DC, 2003 series) #[nn]