| ANIMAL MAN (Buddy Baker) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Dave Wood and Carmine Infantino |
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CHRONOLOGY
Animal Man first appeared in Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #180 (September 1965).
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Animal Man in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Animal Man Chronology
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| Animal Man #22 (April 1990): "Time in a Bottle" [Flashback] |
| Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #180 (September 1965): "I Was The Man With The Animal Powers" |
| Secret Origins Vol. 2 #39/2 (April 1989): "The Myth of the Creation" [Flashback, partly re-telling Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #180] |
| Animal Man #46 (April 1992): "A Rage of Fathers" [Flashback, partly re-telling Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #180 in a new fashion] |
| Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #184 (January 1966): "Return of the Man With The Animal Powers" |
| Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #190 (July 1966): "A-Man- The Man With the Animal Powers" |
| Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #195 (December 1966): "Animal Man, Hero or Freak?" |
| Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #201 (June 1967): "The Mod Gorilla Boss" |
| JLA: Year One #12 (December 1998): "Justice for All" |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #267 (May 1980): "The Man Who Walked with Beasts" [Note: No longer in continuity] |
| Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #268 (June 1980): "Battleground: France" [Note: No longer in continuity] |
| Action Comics #552 (February 1984): "Another Time! Another Death!" |
| Action Comics #553 (March 1984): "The World at Time's End" |
| Red Tornado #3 (September 1985): "The Eye of the Storm" |
| DC Comics Presents #77 (January 1985): "Triad of Terror" |
| DC Comics Presents #78 (February 1985): "The Triad" |
| Resurrection Man #25 (June 1999): "Millennium Then" [Flashback] |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (February 1986): "Aftershock" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March 1986): "Final Crisis" |
| Animal Man #1 (September 1988): "The Human Zoo" |
| Animal Man #2 (October 1988): "Life in the Concrete Jungle" |
| Animal Man #3 (November 1988): "The Nature of the Beast" |
| Animal Man #4 (December 1988): "When We All Lived in the Forest" |
| Animal Man #5 (winter 1988): "The Coyote Gospel" |
| Animal Man #6 (Holiday 1988): "Birds of Prey" |
| Invasion! #2 (1988): "Battleground Earth" [Behind the scenes] |
| Animal Man #7 (January 1989): "The Death of the Red Mask" |
| Invasion! #3 (1989): "World Without Heroes" |
| Justice League International Vol. 1 #24/2 (February 1989): "Across a Crowded Room..." |
| Blasters Special #1 (1989): [No Title] |
| Animal Man #8 (February 1989): "Mirror Moves" |
| Animal Man #9 (March 1989): "Home Improvements" |
| Justice League Europe #1 (April 1989): "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm After They've Seen Paree?" |
| New Titans Annual #5 (1989): "When the Sun Goes Black!" |
| Justice League Europe #2 (May 1989): "Somebody Up There Hates Us!" |
| Justice League Europe #3 (June 1989): "Another Fine Mess!" |
| Secret Origins Vol. 2 #39/2 (April 1989): "The Myth of the Creation" |
| Animal Man #10 (April 1989): "Fox on the Run" |
| Animal Man #11 (May 1989): "Out of Africa" |
| Animal Man #12 (June 1989): "Secret Origins" |
| Animal Man #13 (July 1989): "Hour of the Beast" |
| Animal Man #14 (August 1989): "Spooks" |
| Justice League Europe #4 (July 1989): "Bialya Burning!" |
| Justice League Europe #5 (August 1989): "Stagg Party!" |
| Animal Man #15 (September 1989): "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" |
| Justice League International Annual Vol. 1 #3 (1989): "Around the World with the Justice League" |
| Justice League Europe #6 (September 1989): "No More Teachers' Dirty Looks...?!" |
| Captain Atom #34 (October 1989): "Powerless" |
| Animal Man #16 (October 1989): "The Clockwork Crimes of the Time Commander" |
| Justice League Europe #7 (October 1989): "Teasdale Unbound!" |
| Justice League America #32 (November 1989): "Breaking Point!" |
| Justice League Europe #8 (November 1989): "Showdown..." |
| Justice League Europe #9 (December 1989): "Under the Skin" |
| Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #28 (December 1989): "Labyrinths" |
| Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #29 (January 1990): "The Kingdom of No" |
| Justice League Europe #10 (January 1990): "After the Fox!" |
| Animal Man #17 (November 1989): "Consequences" |
| Animal Man #18 (December 1989): "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" |
| Animal Man #19 (January 1990): "A New Science of Life" |
| Captain Atom #38 (February 1990): "Haunted" |
| Animal Man #20 (February 1990): "The Last Enemy" |
| Justice League Europe #11 (February 1990): "Family Ties" [Note: Story takes place behind the scenes during Animal Man #20] |
| Justice League Europe #12 (March 1990): "Bringing Up Baby" [Note: Story takes place behind the scenes during Animal Man #20] |
| Animal Man #21 (March 1990): "Tooth and Claw" |
| Animal Man #22 (April 1990): "Time in a Bottle" |
| Time Masters #4 (May 1990): "Time is on My Side" [Note: Appearance partly same as Animal Man #22] |
| Animal Man #23 (May 1990): "Crisis" |
| Animal Man #24 (June 1990): "Purification Day" |
| Animal Man #25 (July 1990): "Monkey Puzzle" |
| Animal Man #26 (August 1990): "Deus Ex Machina" |
| Animal Man #27 (September 1990): "The Coma Kid" |
| Animal Man #28 (October 1990): "The Naked Afternoon Snack" |
| Animal Man #29 (November 1990): "Born To Be Wild" |
| Animal Man #30 (December 1990): "A Nice Day for a Weird Wedding" |
| Animal Man #31 (January 1991): "Rites of Passage" |
| Animal Man #32 (February 1991): "Schrodinger's Pizza" |
| Animal Man #33 (March 1991): "I Am the Man of Deep Ungodly Powers" |
| Animal Man #34 (April 1991): "Requiem for a Bird of Prey" |
| Animal Man #35 (May 1991): "Dead Dogs on Ice!" |
| Animal Man #36 (June 1991): "The Call of the Wild" |
| Animal Man #37 (July 1991): "The Zoo at World's End" |
| Animal Man #38 (August 1991): "You're An Animal, Man!" |
| Animal Man #39 (September 1991): "Master of Wolves" |
| Animal Man #40 (October 1991): "Bear Claw Soup" |
| War of the Gods #3 (November 1991): "Casualties of War" |
| War of the Gods #4 (December 1991): "In the Beginning... There Was the End" |
| Animal Man #41 (November 1991): "The Stone that Cracked Open the Earth Like an Egg" |
| Animal Man #42 (December 1991): "Men Without Eyes" |
| Animal Man #43 (January 1992): "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright" |
| Animal Man #44 (February 1992): "Who is That Masked Woman?" |
| Animal Man #45 (March 1992): "The Beat of Darkness" |
| Animal Man #46 (April 1992): "A Rage of Fathers" |
| Animal Man #47 (May 1992): "The Shining Man" |
| Animal Man #48 (June 1992): "The Meaning of Flesh" |
| Animal Man #49 (July 1992): "The Hot Heart of Abstract Reality" |
| Animal Man #50 (August 1992): "Journal of a Plague Year" |
| Animal Man #51 (September 1992): "Flesh and Blood, Part 1: Roadkill" |
| Animal Man #52 (October 1992): "Flesh and Blood, Part 2: Homecoming" |
| Animal Man #53 (November 1992): "Flesh and Blood, Part 3: Pondlife" |
| Animal Man #54 (December 1992): "Flesh and Blood, Part 4: Despair Pop Dead" |
| Animal Man #55 (January 1993): "Flesh and Blood, Part 5: Heartbeats" |
| Animal Man #56 (February 1993): "Flesh and Blood, Part 6: Incarnate" |
| Animal Man #56/2 (February 1993): "Flesh and Blood, Part 7: Metamorphosis" |
| Animal Man #57 (March 1993): "Wild Bunch" |
| Animal Man #58 (April 1993): "Wildside" |
| Animal Man #59 (May 1993): "Wild Town" |
| Animal Man #60 (June 1993): "Wildlife" |
| Animal Man #61 (July 1993): "Tooth and Claw, Part 1: Seasickness" |
| Animal Man #62 (August 1993): "Tooth and Claw, Part 2: Flotsam" |
| Animal Man #63 (September 1993): "Tooth and Claw, Part 3: Leviathan" |
| Vertigo Jam #1/3 (1993): "Talking Turkey" |
| Animal Man #64 (October 1993): "Breath of God" |
| Animal Man #65 (November 1993): "Perfumed Garden" |
| Animal Man #66 (December 1993): "Communion" |
| Animal Man Annual #1 (1993): "Misfit" |
| Animal Man #67 (January 1994): "Mysterious Ways" |
| Animal Man #68 (February 1994): "Mysterious Ways, Part Two" |
| Animal Man #69 (March 1994): "Cold, Cold, Cold" |
| Animal Man #70 (April 1994): "A Strange and Reckless Freedom" |
| Animal Man #71 (May 1994): "The Sermon on the Monument" |
| Animal Man #72 (June 1994): "Last Supper" |
| Animal Man #73 (July 1994): "Children and Animals" |
| Animal Man #74 (August 1994): "Better Red Than Dead!" |
| Animal Man #75 (September 1994): "Red Plague" |
| Animal Man #76 (October 1994): "Quarantine Zone" |
| Animal Man #77 (November 1994): "Thicker Than Water" |
| Animal Man #78 (December 1994): "Scarlet Fever" |
| Animal Man #79 (January 1995): "Promised Land" |
| Animal Man #80 (February 1995): "Homecoming" |
| Animal Man #81 (March 1995): "Wild Type, Part 1: Shaman's Return" |
| Animal Man #82 (April 1995): "Wild Type, Part 2: Weekend Safari" |
| Animal Man #83 (May 1995): "Wild Type, Part 3: Money Trial" |
| Animal Man #84 (June 1995): "Bedtime Story" |
| Animal Man #85 (July 1995): "Anima Mundi, Part 1: The Ant Mystic" |
| Animal Man #86 (August 1995): "Anima Mundi, Part 2: The Little Idea That Could" |
| Animal Man #87 (September 1995): "Anima Mundi, Part 3: The Hidden Stone" |
| Animal Man #88 (October 1995): "Birth Pains" |
| Animal Man #89 (November 1995): "Birth Pains, Part Two" |
| Aquaman Vol. 5 #35 (August 1997): "Sight Unseen" |
| JLA #27 (March 1999): "The Bigger They Come..." |
| Resurrection Man #23 (April 1999): "The Female of the Species" |
| Resurrection Man #24 (May 1999): "Forgotten But Not Gone" |
| Resurrection Man #25 (June 1999): "Millennium Then" |
| Resurrection Man #26 (July 1999): "Millennium Now!" |
| Resurrection Man #27 (August 1999): "The End of the Earth" |
| JLA Annual #3 (September 1999): "Gorilla Warfare part 1" |
| Day of Judgment #4 (November 1999): "The End of the World As We Know It" |
| Totems (February 2000): "Totems" |
| Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #8 (March 2000): "Crisis in Blue Valley" |
| JLA #40 (April 2000): "World War Three, Part 5" |
| JLA #41 (May 2000): "World War Three, Part 6: Mageddon" |
| JLA: Welcome to the Working Week (2003): "Welcome to the Working Week" |
| Hawkman Vol. 4 #16 (August 2003): "The Thanagarian Part Two" |
| Hawkman Vol. 4 #17 (September 2003): "The Thanagarian Part Three" |
| Avengers/JLA #4 (January 2004): "Book Four: The Brave and the Bold" |
| Identity Crisis #1 (August 2004): "Coffin" |
| Identity Crisis #7 (February 2005): "The Hero's Life" |
| Day of Vengeance #1 (June 2005): "One Last Drink at the End of Time" |
| Day of Vengeance #4 (September 2005): "Monkey Business" |
| OMAC Project #6 (November 2005): "Loss of Signal" |
| Infinite Crisis #2 (January 2006): "The Survivors" |
| Firestorm Vol. 3 #20 (February 2006): "Sacred Duties" |
| Outsiders Vol. 3 #31 (February 2006): "Out-of-town Work" |
| Outsiders Vol. 3 #32 (March 2006): "Detour" |
| Infinite Crisis #3 (February 2006): "Divine Intervention" |
| Firestorm Vol. 3 #21 (March 2006}}: "Building a Better Firestorm, Book One: The Chalk Circle" |
| Rann-Thanagar War: Infinite Crisis Special #1 (April 2006): "Hands of Fate" |
| Infinite Crisis #6 (May 2006): "Touchdown" |
| 52 #5 (August 2006): "Stars in Their Courses" [Flashback] |
| 52 #5 (August 2006): "Stars in Their Courses" |
| 52 #7 (August 2006): "Going Down" |
| 52 #8 (August 2006): "Thief" |
| 52 #9 (September 2006): "Dream of America" |
| 52 #16 (October 2006): "Uhebbuki" |
| 52 #17 (October 2006): "Last of the Czarnians" |
| 52 #19 (November 2006): "History Repeats" |
| 52 #20 (November 2006): "God is Fragged" |
| 52 #28 (January 2007): "Beyond the Black Stump" |
| 52 #31 (February 2007): "Human Resources" |
| 52 #32 (February 2007): "Seven Days in Nanda Parbat" |
| 52 #33 (February 2007): "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" |
| 52 #35 (March 2007): "Rain of the Supermen" |
| 52 #36 (March 2007): "How to Win a War in Space" |
| 52 #37 (March 2007): "Secret Identities" |
| 52 #43 (April 2007): "Family Matters" |
| 52 #47 (May 2007): "Revelations" |
| 52 #51 (June 2007): "Homecoming" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #666 (October 2007): "The Beast from Krypton" |
| Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special #1 (November 2007): "And They Said It Wouldn't Last" |
| Countdown to Adventure #1 (October 2007): "The Home Front: New Kids on the Block" |
| Countdown to Adventure #2 (November 2007): "The Home Front: Working Man's Blues" |
| Countdown to Adventure #3 (December 2007): "The Home Front: In the Time of the Plague" |
| Countdown to Adventure #4 (January 2008): "The Home Front: First, Do No Harm" |
| Countdown to Adventure #5 (February 2008): "The Home Front: Patient Zero" |
| Countdown to Adventure #6 (March 2008): "The Home Front: Rescue Parties" |
| Countdown to Adventure #7 (April 2008): "The Home Front: To Serve Rann" |
| Countdown to Adventure #8 (May 2008): "The Home Front: Heroic Measures" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #1 (July 2008): "The Dawning" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #2 (August 2008): "Seek and Ye Shall Find!" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #3 (September 2008): "Restoration" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #4 (October 2008): "Return of the Prodigal" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #5 (November 2008): "Cursed Be the Peacemakers!" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #6 (December 2008): "The Demiurge" |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #7 (January 2009): "On the Eve of..." |
| Rann/Thanagar Holy War #8 (February 2009): "Sacrifice and Loss" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #24 (October 2008): "The Second Coming, Chapter Three: The Blood-Dimmed Tide" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #25 (November 2008): "The Second Coming, Chapter Four: The Best Lack All Conviction" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #26 (December 2008): "The Second Coming, Chapter Five: Spiritus Mundi" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #27 (January 2009): "Be Careful What You Wish For..." |
| Final Crisis #3 (September 2008): "Know Evil" |
| Blackest Night #5 (January 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1/5 (December 2010): "A Losing Battle" [Occurs same time as Blackest Night #5] |
| Blackest Night #6 (February 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Blackest Night #7 (April 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Blackest Night #8 (May 2010): "Blackest Night" |
| Justice League: Cry for Justice #5 (January 2010): "The Lie" |
| Justice League: Cry for Justice #7 (April 2010): "Justice" |
| Starman/Congorilla #1 (March 2011): "Now & Then" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #53 (March 2011): "JLA: Omega, Part 4: Finale" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #56 (June 2011): "Eclipso Rising, Part Three: The Battle for Emerald City" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #57 (July 2011): "Eclipso Rising, Part Four: Wrath & Vengeance" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #58 (August 2011): "Eclipso Rising, Part Five: The Destined and the Dying" |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #59 (September 2011): "Eclipso Rising, Part Six" |