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ANIMAL MAN

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House AdWriter Grant Morrison was one of the" British Invasion" creators from the UK who were brought in to DC to revamp older and obscure properties after the success of Alan Moore 's Swamp Thing . Thus Morrison pitched the idea of Animal Man, originally as a four issue mini-series. Strong sales however, meant DC asked Morrison to continue his series an ongoing, which he did for 26 issues. During his run, Morison incorporated themes such as animal rights and vegetarianism as well as fourth-wall breaking story lines which ended in Morrison inserting himself into the comic and directly speaking to Animal Man and revealing his status as a fictional character. Morrison's series re-invented Buddy Baker as a suburban family man and "average Joe" character, he also introduced a new Mirror Master (McCulloch). After Morrison's run ended, Peter Milligan took over briefly and then Tom Veitch, who focused on Baker's stuntman career. Writer Jamie Delano then came on board as writer, transforming the title into a horror book and lining Animal Man much closer to the Swamp Thing style character, by re-inventing him again as an avatar of "The red" a force of animal life similar to Moore's "The Green" in his Swamp Thing stories, something which Morrison was opposed to but became part of Baker's status quo, especially in Jeff Lemire's New 52 Animal Man series. it was during this time (issue #57) the book was placed under DC's new Vertigo imprint along side other mature readers titles at DC where it remained for the rest of its run. Between issues #66 and #67, Delano also wrote the Animal Man Annual #1, focusing on Buddy's daughter Maxine, the annual was the third part of Vertigo's crossover The Children's Crusade. The series had never been fully collected though #1-26 (Morrison's run) have been collected in three trades so far, the first nine issues were collected soon after they had been printed back before Vertigo came around in Animal Man- through the art of reprinting the volume has been updated to Vertigo. Over a decade later, a second volume was released, Animal Man: Origin of the Species which collected the next eight issues as well as Animal Man's origin issue from the Secret Origins series. And finally, a year later the third volume was released, Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina which collected nine more issues though left the majority of the series (including all the issues that were printed after the Vertigo imprint got stamped onto the series) uncollected. Peter Milligan's run on the book would eventually fill a fourth trade in 2013, possibly due to the revived interest in Animal Man after the New 52. The Shifting Cast of Writers on the Title Grant Morrison: # 1- 26Peter Milligan: # 27- 32Tom Veitch: # 33- 50Jamie Delano: # 51- 79Jerry Prosser: # 80- 89Pencillers Charles Truog #1-8, 10-13, 15-21, 23-26Tom Grummett #9, 14 Paris Cullins #22 AnnualAnimal Man Annual #1 - Misfit Collected TradesVol. 1: Animal Man (#1-9)Animal Man by Grant Morrison: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Book One (#1-13)Vol. 2: Origin of the Species (#10-17)Animal Man by Grant Morrison: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Book Two (#14-26)Vol. 3: Deus Ex Machina (#18-26)Vol. 4: Born to Be Wild (#27-37)Vol. 5: The Meaning of Flesh (#38-50)Vol. 6: Flesh and Blood (#51-63)Vol. 7: Red Plague (#64-79)OmnibusesAnimal Man Omnibus (#1-26 and Secret Origins #39)

CREATORSGrant MorrisonSteve DillonPeter MilliganJohn HigginsJamie DelanoBrett EwinsCharles TruogFred HarperTom MandrakeSteve Pugh

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Animal Man #1

1 The Human Zoo

September 1988

Animal Man #10

10 Fox on the Run

April 1989

Animal Man #11

11 Out of Africa

May 1989

Animal Man #12

12 Secret Origins

June 1989

Animal Man #13

13 Hour of the Beast

July 1989

Animal Man #14

14 Spooks

August 1989

Animal Man #15

15 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

September 1989

Animal Man #16

16 The Clockwork Crimes of the Time Commander

October 1989

Animal Man #17

17 Consequences

November 1989

Animal Man #18

18 At Play in the Fields of the Lord

December 1989

Animal Man #19

19 A New Science of Life

January 1990

Animal Man #2

2 Life in the Concrete Jungle

October 1988

Animal Man #20

20 The Last Enemy

February 1990

Animal Man #21

21 Tooth and Claw

March 1990

Animal Man #22

22 Time in a Bottle

April 1990

Animal Man #23

23 Crisis

May 1990

Animal Man #24

24 Purification Day

June 1990

Animal Man #25

25 Monkey Puzzle

July 1990

Animal Man #26

26 Deus Ex Machina

August 1990

Animal Man #27

27 The Coma Kid

September 1990

Animal Man #28

28 The Naked Afternoon Snack

October 1990

Animal Man #29

29 Born to Be Wild

November 1990

Animal Man #3

3 The Nature of the Beast

November 1988

Animal Man #30

30 A Nice Day for a Weird Wedding

December 1990

Animal Man #31

31 Rites of Passage

January 1991

Animal Man #32

32 Schrödinger's Pizza

February 1991

Animal Man #33

33 I Am the Man of Deep Ungodly Powers

March 1991

Animal Man #34

34 Requiem for a Bird of Prey

April 1991

Animal Man #35

35 Dead Dogs on Ice!

May 1991

Animal Man #36

36 The Call of the Wild

June 1991

Animal Man #37

37 The Zoo at World's End

July 1991

Animal Man #38

38 The Penalizer

August 1991

Animal Man #39

39 Master of Wolves

September 1991

Animal Man #4

4 When We All Lived in the Forest

December 1988

Animal Man #41

41 The Stone that Cracked Open the Earth Like an Egg

November 1991

Animal Man #42

42 Men Without Eyes

December 1991

Animal Man #43

43 Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

January 1992

Animal Man #44

44 Who is That Masked Woman?

February 1992

Animal Man #45

45 The Beat of Darkness

March 1992

Animal Man #46

46 A Rage of Fathers

April 1992

Animal Man #47

47 The Shining Man, Part One: the Dark Side of God; Part Two: Orpheus in Cyberspace; Part Three: the Antagon

May 1992

Animal Man #48

48 The Meaning of Flesh

June 1992

Animal Man #49

49 The Hot Heart of Abstract Reality

July 1992

Animal Man #5

5 The Coyote Gospel

December 1988

Animal Man #50

50 Journal of a Plague Year

August 1992

Animal Man #51

51 Flesh and Blood, Part One: Roadkill

September 1992

Animal Man #52

52 Flesh and Blood, Part Two: Homecoming

October 1992

Animal Man #53

53 Flesh and Blood, Part Three: Pondlife

November 1992

Animal Man #54

54 Flesh and Blood, Part Four: Despair

December 1992

Animal Man #55

55 Flesh and Blood, Part Five: Heartbeats

January 1993

Animal Man #56

56 Flesh and Blood, Part Six: Incarnate; Part Seven: Metamorphosis

February 1993

Animal Man #57

57 Wild Bunch

March 1993

Animal Man #58

58 Wildside

April 1993

Animal Man #59

59 Wild Town

May 1993

Animal Man #60

60 Wildlife

June 1993

Animal Man #61

61 Tooth and Claw, Part One: Seasickness

July 1993

Animal Man #62

62 Floatsam [Tooth And Claw Part 2]

August 1993

Animal Man #63

63 Tooth and Claw Part 3: Leviathan

September 1993

Animal Man #64

64 Breath of God

October 1993

Animal Man #65

65 Perfumed Garden

November 1993

Animal Man #66

66 Communion

December 1993

Animal Man #67

67 Mysterious Ways

January 1994

Animal Man #68

68 Mysterious Ways Part Two

February 1994

Animal Man #69

69 Cold, Cold, Cold

March 1994

Animal Man #7

7 The Death of the Red Mask

January 1989

Animal Man #70

70 A Strange And Reckless Freedom

April 1994

Animal Man #71

71 The Sermon on the Monument

May 1994

Animal Man #72

72 Last Supper

June 1994

Animal Man #73

73 Children And Animals

July 1994

Animal Man #74

74 Better Red Than Dead!

August 1994

Animal Man #75

75 Red Plague

September 1994

Animal Man #76

76 Quarantine Zone

October 1994

Animal Man #77

77 Thicker Than Water

November 1994

Animal Man #78

78 Scarlet Fever

December 1994

Animal Man #79

79 Promised Land

January 1995

Animal Man #8

8 Mirror Moves

February 1989

Animal Man #80

80 Homecoming

February 1995

Animal Man #81

81 Shaman's Return

March 1995

Animal Man #82

82 Weeken Safari [Wild Type Part 2]

April 1995

Animal Man #83

83 Money Trial [Wild Type Part 3]

May 1995

Animal Man #84

84 A Bedtime Story

June 1995

Animal Man #85

85 An Altered State of Mind

July 1995

Animal Man #86

86 The Princess, The Shaman King, and The Spider Queen

August 1995

Animal Man #87

87 Unlocking the Doors of Conception

September 1995

Animal Man #88

88 Placenta of the Earth

October 1995

Animal Man #89

89 Birth Pains, Part Two

November 1995

Animal Man #9

9 Home Improvements

March 1989

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