Animal Man #13
Animal Man #13
Cover Credits
Artist: Brian J. Bolland

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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 In:
Animal Man:Origin of the Species TPB (2002)
Animal Man Omnibus HC (2013)
Animal Man by Grant Morrison 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 HC (2019)
Animal Man by Grant Morrison Vol. 1 TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

Guest Star(s)

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)

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.


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