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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1988
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Karen Berger

Cover Details

Characters Animal Man [Buddy Baker]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Brian Bolland (signed)
Inks Brian Bolland (signed)
Notes Cover credits from Matthew Cettei on 24 May 2004
Reprinted in Animal Man (DC, 1991 series) #nn; in Animal Man (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in American Heroes (Play Press, 1991 series) #9/10

1 page Publishorial promo (ad from the publisher)

Script Jenette Kahn
Letters typeset
Notes Includes checklist of other DC titles on sale the same week as this issue. Inside front cover.

24 page Animal Man story "The Human Zoo"

Characters Animal Man [Buddy Baker]; B'Wana Beast; Ellen Baker; Cliff Baker; Maxine Baker; Violet Weidemeir; Morris Weidemeir; Justice League International [Captain Atom [Nathaniel Adam]; Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Mr. Miracle [Scott Free]; Booster Gold [Michael Carter]] (cameo; all as pictures on a magazine); Roger; Tricia; Dick Griffith; Dr. Myers; Ray; Lew; 2 other unnamed hunters
Synopsis When Buddy Blank decides to resume his superhero career, S.T.A.R. labs in San Diego calls him to investigate a break-in at a lab working to develop an AIDS vaccine.
Genre Superhero
Script Grant Morrison
Pencils Chas Truog
Inks Doug Hazlewood
Colors Tatjana Wood
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Animal Man (DC, 1991 series) #nn; in Animal Man (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in American Heroes (Play Press, 1991 series) #9/10