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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published April 1989
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.50 USD; 1.85 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages 52
Editing Mark Waid

Cover Details

Characters Animal Man; Man-Bat
Genre Superhero
Pencils Mike W. Kaluta (signed)
Inks Mike W. Kaluta (signed)

19 page Man-Bat story "The Secret Origin of Man-Bat"

Characters Man-Bat [Kirk Langstrom]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Francine Langstrom; Alfred Pennyworth
Genre Superhero
Script Jan Strnad
Pencils Kevin Nowlan
Inks Kevin Nowlan
Colors Kevin Nowlan
Letters Kevin Nowlan
Notes A significantly amplified version of the origin from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #400.

19 page Animal Man story "The Myth of the Creation"

Characters Animal Man [Buddy Baker]; Ellen Baker; Cliff Baker; Maxine Baker
Genre Superhero
Script Grant Morrison
Pencils Tom Grummett
Inks Doug Hazlewood
Colors Helen Vesik
Letters Janice Chiang
Notes Leads into Animal Man (DC, 1987 series) #10. This begins to show the dichotomy between the post- and pre-Crisis Animal Man as the fabric of reality begins to unravel.