Comic Title: Animal Man #2
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: October 1988
On Sale Date: June 28, 1988 Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date June 28, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

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

Title: "Life in the Concrete Jungle"
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 #1; next appearance in Animal Man #3)

Guest Star(s)

• B'Wana Beast (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #3)
• Maxine Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #3)

Villain(s)

• A group of hunters (Ray and Lew named; next appearance in Animal Man #3)
• A homeless man (transformed into a rat man; next appearance in Animal Man #3)
• A cockroach man (in flashback; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Superman (last appearance in World of Metropolis #2; next appearance in Justice League International #19)

Other Character(s)

• Morris Weidemeir (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #3)
• Myers (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #3)
• A lab assistant (no further appearances)
• Jaime (a teenager; no further appearances)
• Lester and Luna (a married couple; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #1 and continues in Animal Man #3.

Synopsis:
Animal Man is hired by S.T.A.R. Labs to find out who demolished one of their animal research labs. Witnesses claim the a man-sized cockroach was responsible. Animal Man absorbs the power of a dog to allow him to track the creature into the city. Shortly after the trail disappears, Buddy is attacked by a man-sized rat. During the fight, Buddy's arm is ripped off from the shoulder. As he passes out from the loss of blood, Animal Man sees the creature undergo a transformation back into a human.

Elsewhere, Buddy's wife Ellen takes her daughter into the country where they encounter a group of hunters.