Comic Title: Animal Man by Grant Morrison Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2020
On Sale Date: February 12, 2020 Direct Market Date February 12, 2020
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Direct Market Date February 12, 2020
Source: Previews, #374

Direct Market Date February 12, 2020
Source: DC Previews, #19

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 376
Editor: Alex Galer

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Hour of the Beast"
Pages: 24

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

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

Reprinted From:
Animal Man #13 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Animal Man #12; next appearance in Justice League Europe #1)

Guest Star(s)

• B'Wana Beast (last appearance in Animal Man #4; no further appearances)
• Freedom Beast (Dominic Mndawe; first appearance; next appearance in Animal Man #31)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Van de Voort ( a prison guard; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A South African minister and several soldiers (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Perry White (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #452; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #453)
• Vixen (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Animal Man #12; next appearance in Suicide Squad #27)

Other Character(s)

• Don Friedman (a reporter; no further appearances)
• Mogatusi (an archbishop; no further appearances)
• David Quinn (a reporter; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Animal Man #12.

Synopsis:
Animal Man meets Mike Maxwell at an airport in Africa. Maxwell, the B'Wana Beast, has decided to find a successor. He asked Buddy to join him while he performs this last function. After performing a ritual, Maxwell locates Dominic Mndawe, a South African who will take his place.

Dominic has been jailed by the white supremacist government in South Africa. Maxwell and Animal Man break him out before the guards kill him. Maxwell cautions him not to make the new B'Wana Beast a political tool. Mndawe rejects the advice and the name B'Wana Beast. Instead, he helps his people and takes the name Freedom Beast.

Animal Man returns to America with photographs taken by Mndawe which show the civil rights injustices being executed against the black population of South Africa.