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ANIMAL MAN

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)

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Animal Man 1

1 The Human Zoo

September 1988

Animal Man 2

2 Life in the Concrete Jungle

October 1988

Animal Man 3

3 The Nature of the Beast

November 1988

Animal Man 4

4 When We All Lived in the Forest

December 1988

Animal Man 5

5 The Coyote Gospel

October 1988

Animal Man 6

6 Birds of Prey

October 1988

Animal Man 7

7 The Death of the Red Mask

January 1989

Animal Man 8

8 Mirror Moves

February 1989

Animal Man 9

9 Home Improvements

March 1989

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 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 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 40

40 Bear Claw Soup

October 1991

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 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 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 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

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