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  • Animal Man Vol 1 1
Trivia
  • * This story takes place in the month of May. * Buddy Baker is twenty-nine years old at the time of publication.
Letterer1
  • John Costanza
Inker1
  • Doug Hazlewood
Recommended
  • *Animal Man *Justice League Europe *Strange Adventures
Inker1
  • Doug Hazlewood
Writer1
  • Grant Morrison
Penciler1
  • Chaz Truog
Image2Text
  • Textless
Colourist1
  • Tatjana Wood
Writer1
  • Grant Morrison
StoryTitle
  • The Human Zoo
Editor1
  • Karen Berger
Penciler1
  • Chaz Truog
Appearing
  • * None
  • * None Vehicles:
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * * * * Adversaries: * None Other Characters: * * * :* :* :* :* * Dick Griffith * Doctor Myers * Lew * Morris Weidemeir * Ray * Rufus the cat * Skip the dog * Tricia Denning * Violet Weidemeir Locations: * :* :* Items:
Letterer1
  • John Costanza
Colourist1
  • Tatjana Wood
Editor1
  • Karen Berger
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CoverArtist
  • Brian Bolland
  • Lovern Kindzierski
Country
  • USA
Executive Editor
  • Dick Giordano
Issue
  • 1
Speaker
  • [[W:C:DC:Bernhard Baker
Links
  • * Animal Man series index at the Grand Comics Database * Animal Man series index at Comicbookdb.com * Animal Man article at Wikipedia * Animal Man article at Toonopedia * Animal Man article at Sequart * Animal Man series index at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe * Animal Man profile at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe * B'Wana Beast profile at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe
Volume
  • 1
Title
  • Animal Man
Month
  • September
Synopsis
  • Somewhere in San Diego, a mysterious figure calling himself the Beast seems to be in some kind of pain, and is searching for the source of the sound of screaming monkeys that he hears in his head. Meanwhile, Buddy Baker, no longer content with operating as a "small-time" hero, strives to make his way into the big leagues. He begins practicing his powers by tapping into the physical characteristics of cats, birds, fish and spiders. To further promote himself, he makes an ill-advised guest appearance on the Dick Griffith Show. Griffith humiliates him on national television and Buddy decides to beef up his look by adding a leather jacket to his costume. Elsewhere, in an alleyway, the Beast is attacked by a mugger, who he kills without hesitation, before finding his way to a S.T.A.R. Labs facility, the apparent source of the sound he had been tormented by. Later, Buddy responds to an emergency at S.T.A.R. Labs. There, Doctor Myers - who had been working on a cure for the AIDS virus - tells him that he was actually hoping for Superman, but will settle for Animal Man regardless. He shows him one of the lab's animal testing facilities, which has been ransacked with broken cages and emptied medical containers all over the floor. All of the test monkeys have somehow been fused together into a gelatinous ball.
Image
  • Animal Man 0001.jpg
Notes
  • * This issue is reprinted in Animal Man: Book One. * Stevie Wonder and the members of Justice League International appear as photographs in a copy of Rolling Stone only. * Roger Denning appears next in Animal Man #6.
quotation
  • Listen, Ellen, I've been doing some thinking over the last couple of months... about my Animal Man powers and stuff... and, well, I've come to a decision. I want to go full time into the super-hero business.
Publisher
  • DC Comics
Year
  • 1988