Comic Title: Animal Man #23
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: May 1990
On Sale Date: March 27, 1990 Shipping Date March 27, 1990
Source: Previews, #13

Shipping Date March 27, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #177

Shipping Date March 29, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #15

Copyright Date March 27, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Crisis"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Animal Man (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Grant Morrison
Penciller: Chas Truog
Inker: Doug Hazlewood
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Animal Man:Deus Ex Machina TPB (2003)
Animal Man Omnibus HC (2013)
Animal Man by Grant Morrison 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Vol. 2 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Animal Man #22; next appearance in Animal Man #24)

Guest Star(s)

• Phantom Stranger (during the 1960s; last appearance in Animal Man #22; next appearance in Secret Origins #10)

Villain(s)

• Psycho Pirate (last appearance in Animal Man #22; next appearance in Animal Man #24)
• Jonathan Crane (last appearance in Arkham Asylum HC; next appearance in Batman #456)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Jason Blood (during the 1960s; last appearance in Swamp Thing #85; next appearance in Action Comics #587)
• Immortal Man (during the 1960s; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• James Highwater (last appearance in Animal Man #22; next appearance in Animal Man #24)
• Two aliens (last appearance in Animal Man #22; next appearance in Animal Man #24)
• Binky and his girls (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Crime Syndicate (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Owlman (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Ultraman (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Power Ring (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Johnny Quick (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Streaky (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Bug-Eyed Bandit (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Detective Chimp (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Ten-Eyed Man (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Icicle (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Psimon (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Maaldor (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Uberman (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• The Love Syndicate of Dreamworld (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Sargon (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Aquagirl (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Golden Gladiator (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Prince Ra-Man (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Kole (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Beppo (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #22 and continues in Animal Man #24.

Synopsis:
Animal Man is stuck in the 1960s after his failed attempt to save his family using time travel. He is introduced to several immortals including the Phantom Stranger, Jason Blood, and the Immortal Man. He has given up on life. Blood and the Immortal Man debate the qualities of life and death. Eventually, Animal Man regains a measure of resolve and returns to his own time.

While Animal Man was away, the Psycho Pirate has began to remember the worlds and people of the multiverse which never exisited. As a result many of the people who died during the Crisis on Infinite Earths begin appearing as phantoms in Arkham Asylum. The aliens who gave Animal Man his powers bring Animal Man to Arkham, so that he can put things right.