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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published November 1988
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.70 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Karen Berger; Art Young (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details

Characters Animal Man [Buddy Baker]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Brian Bolland (signed)
Inks Brian Bolland (signed)
Colors Lovern Kindzierski (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

1 page Publishorial promo (ad from the publisher)

Script Jenette Kahn
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover.

24 page Animal Man story "The Nature of the Beast"

Characters Animal Man [Buddy Baker]; Ellen Baker; Maxine Baker; B'Wana Beast; Lew; Ray; Rupert Kenboya; Morris Weidemeir; Dr. Myers
Synopsis B'Wana Beast frees Djuba the ape from S.T.A.R. Labs and Animal Man learns the real project the scientists are working on. Elsewhere, Ellen is saved from the hunters by an unlikely hero.
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