Comic Title: Animal Man #7
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: January 1989
On Sale Date: November 29, 1988 Shipping Date November 29, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #10

Shipping Date December 1, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #153

Direct Market Date December 1, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "The Death of the Red Mask"
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 TPB (1991)
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)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Animal Man #6; next appearance in Invasion #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Cliff Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #5; next appearance in Animal Man #9)

Villain(s)

• Red Mask (a washed-up super-villain; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Several robots (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A Miami police officer (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Captain Triumph (in flashback)
• The Veil (in flashback)

Comments:
This issue is not officially an Invasion tie-in, but does show the aftermath of the alien invasion.

The final page of this story depicts the detonation of the gene bomb and leads into Invasion #3.

Synopsis:
After helping the heroes of Earth fight the alien alliance, Animal Man finds himself in Miami where a Khund fighter has done a considerable amount of damage. The streets are full of red robots which, while easy to defeat, are filled with explosives. Animal Man traces the robots to the Red Mask, a washed-up super-villain from the 1940s.

The villain threatens to kill himself by jumping off a building. Animal Man listens to the man's story and talks him out of jumping. He then returns to the streets to finish off the robots. Moments after Animal Man departs, the Red Mask jumps and falls to his death.

Once the robots are defeated, a strange flash of black light fills the sky.