Comic Title: Animal Man #15
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: September 1989
On Sale Date: August 1, 1989 Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Copyright Date August 1, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date August 3, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110

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

Title: "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
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. 2 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Justice League Europe #5; next appearance in Justice League Europe #6)

Guest Star(s)

• Dane Dorrance (last appearance in Animal Man #14; no further appearances)
• Dolphin (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Secret Origins #50; next appearance in Secret Origins #50)

Villain(s)

• Ongur Nielsen (a whaler; no further appearances)
• The people of Faroyar (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joannes (an eco-terrorist; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Dane Dorrance contacts Animal Man for help protecting a school of dolphins from an overzealous whaler and his associates. Every year the dolphins migrate and the people of Faroyar lead them to shore and slaughter them. Dane and his associate Joannes intend to stop the killing this year. Buddy agrees to help, as does the mysterious girl named Dolphin. Working together they protect most of the dolphins. However, Ongur Nielson, the leader of the killers manages to kill a few. This angers Buddy who carries him high into the air, then drops him in the ocean far from shore. Buddy assumes that the man will die, but he is ironically rescued by a dolphin.