Comic Title: Animal Man #16
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: October 1989
On Sale Date: August 29, 1989 Shipping Date August 29, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Shipping Date August 29, 1989
Source: Previews, #6

Shipping Date August 31, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #8

Direct Market Date August 31, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110, #112, #113

Copyright Date August 29, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "The Clockwork Crimes of the Time Commander"
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)
52:The Companion TPB (2007)
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 Justice League Europe #6; next appearance in Captain Atom #34)

Guest Star(s)

• Justice League (last appearance in Mister Miracle #10; next appearance in Captain Atom #34)
• Elongated Man (last appearance in Justice League Europe #6; next appearance in Captain Atom #34)
• Metamorpho (last appearance in Justice League Europe #6; next appearance in Captain Atom #34)
• Rocket Red (last appearance in New Titans Annual #5; next appearance in Justice League Europe #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #14; next appearance in Animal Man #17)

Villain(s)

• Time Commander (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Animal Man #22)
• Lennox (last appearance in Animal Man #14; next appearance in Animal Man #17)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Justice League Europe #6; next appearance in Captain Atom #34)

Comments:
This is the first post-Crisis appearance of the Time Commander. The Earth-1 Time Commander was last seen in Brave and the Bold #69.

Synopsis:
Ellen learns that her book has been accepted for publication. To celebrate, Buddy takes her to Paris using the Justice League transporter. While in Paris, clocks suddenly stop, and time periods collide. Buddy battles a dinosaur in the streets. The Justice League joins him, and the Elongated Man deduces that the Time Commander must be responsible.

The group tracks the Time Commander to a cemetery where he is restoring the dead to life. The villain uses his hourglass to trap and delay most of the team. Animal Man simply talks to him in an attempt to show him the effects of his time manipulations. While the Time Commander is distracted, Metamorpho escapes. He breaks the hourglass, then punches the Time Commander. The effects on the time stream are reversed.