Animal Man #1
“The Human Zoo”, September 1988

On Mando paper, Direct Market distribution, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Buddy’s costume, and more…

Animal Man #2
“Life in the Concrete Jungle”, October 1988

On Bolland’s covers, Superman, San Diego public transport, and more…

Animal Man #3
“The Nature of the Beast”, November 1988

On B’wana Beast, Djuba, and more…

Animal Man #4
“When We All Lived in the Forest”, December 1988

On Who’s Who directories, zoomorphism, ‘Women in Refrigerators’, and more…

Animal Man #5
“The Coyote Gospel”, Winter 1988

On vegetarianism, Looney Tunes, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and more…

Animal Man #6
“Birds of Prey”, Holiday 1988

On Invasion!, Aleister Crowley’s Thelema, fractals, the complicated history of Hawkman and Hawkwoman, and more…

Animal Man #7
“The Death of the Red Mask”, January 1989

On the unpublished “Scooter” issue, Watchmen, Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, secret origins, and more…

Animal Man #8
“Mirror Moves”, February 1989

On the unpublished issue ‘Dominion’, Einstein and Born, the Justice League, Mirror Master, and more…

Animal Man #9
“Home Improvements”, March 1989

On Martian Manhunter, Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories, and more…

Secret Origins (1986) #39
“The Myth of the Creation”, April 1989

On the Comics Code Authority, Buddy’s Strange Adventures, and more…

Animal Man #10
“Fox on the Run”, April 1989

On Vixen, the implicate order, Psycho-Pirate, and more…

Animal Man #11
“Out of Africa”, May 1989

On threats to continuity, and more…

Animal Man #12
“Secret Origins”, June 1989

On Theseus’s Paradox, rewriting Buddy’s post-Crisis origin, and more…

Animal Man #13
“Hour of the Beast”, July 1989

On apartheid, Buddy’s new jacket, La Dame à la licorne, the Soweto uprising, Freedom Beast, and more…

Animal Man #14
“Spooks”, August 1989

On Glasgow, holograms, Ouija boards, and more…

Animal Man #15
“The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”, September 1989

On the Sea Devils, cetacean slaughters, Dolphin, and more…

Animal Man #16
“The Clockwork Crimes of the Time Commander”, October 1989

On Justice League Europe characters, the Time Commander, Paris, obelisks, the guillotine, and more…

Animal Man #17
“Consequences”, November 1989

On Britches and the Animal Liberation Front, tachyons, the butterfly affect, controversial letters, and more…

Animal Man #18
“At Play in the Fields of the Lord”, December 1989

On morphogenetic fields, Sheldrake’s A New Science of Life, Lorenz attractor, Prophecy Rock, Hopi mythology, and more…

Animal Man #19
“A New Science of Life”, January 1990

On Buddy’s revelation, Le Avventure di Pinocchio, and more…

Animal Man #20
“The Last Enemy”, February 1990

On further Bible references, Booster Gold, and more…

Animal Man #21
“Tooth and Claw”, March 1990

On Tennyson, Glaswegian slang, insulin, Modern Age violence, and more…

Animal Man #22
“Time in a Bottle”, April 1990

On the Time Masters, Earth-Prime, the Phantom Stranger, and more…

Animal Man #23
“Crisis”, May 1990

On characters from forgotten Earths, Arkham Asylum, Binky Biggs, immortals, Leary and Kesey, Miracleman, and more…

Animal Man #24
“Purification Day”, June 1990

On key issues of the Multiverse, Bizarro, sacrificial eagles, The Tempest, and more…

Animal Man #25
“Monkey Puzzle”, July 1990

On the infinite monkey theorem, the Inferior Five, the DC Implosion, comic publishers, Mister Freeze, and more…

Animal Man #26
“Deus Ex Machina”, August 1990

On Grant Morrison, Deus Ex Machina, Borges, after Animal Man, and more…