Comic Title: 52:The Companion TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: October 17, 2007 Direct Market Date October 17, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #7 (#223)

Direct Market Date October 17, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 224
Editor: Anton Kawasaki

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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 From:
Animal Man #16 (1989)

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.