Comic Title: Animal Man #24
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: June 1990
On Sale Date: April 24, 1990 Shipping Date April 24, 1990
Source: Previews, #14

Shipping Date April 24, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #178

Copyright Date April 24, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

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

Title: "Purification Day"
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 #23; next appearance in Animal Man #25)

Villain(s)

• Psycho Pirate (last appearance in Animal Man #23; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• James Highwater (last appearance in Animal Man #23; no further appearances)
• Two aliens (last appearance in Animal Man #23; no further appearances)
• Dr. Robert Huntoon (last appearance in Animal Man #20; no further appearances)
• George (a doctor at Arkham Asylum; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Crime Syndicate (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Ultraman (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Power Ring (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Overman (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Streaky (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Bizarro (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)
• Tweedledee and Tweedledum (in Psycho Pirate's hallucinations)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #23 and continues in Animal Man #25.

Synopsis:
Memories of the forgotten multiverse return from the mind of the Psycho Pirate while he himself begins to fade from reality. Ultraman breaks a panel border allowing Animal Man and James Highwater to see that they are characters in a story. Animal Man steps beyond the border in order to deal with the threat of Overman, one of the characters brought to life by Psycho Pirate. Highwater in turn dons Psycho Pirate's Medusa Mask.

After Buddy deals with Overman, he switches off a bomb, and all the characters from the Psycho Pirate's mind vanish. Psycho Pirate himself fades into oblivion. Animal Man wants answers from the two aliens who brought him there, but they too vanish. Highwater is condemned to Arkham Asylum, a catatonic prisoner of the Medusa Mask. Buddy returns home with many questions. He hears an ominous voice which leads him outside and into an altered reality.