Comic Title: Animal Man:Origin of the Species TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2002
On Sale Date: July 24, 2002 Direct Market Date July 24, 2002
Source: Previews, Vol. 12 #5 (#161)

Direct Market Date July 24, 2002
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 24, 2002

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Out of Africa"
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 #11 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Animal Man (last appearance in Animal Man #10; next appearance in Animal Man #12)

Guest Star(s)

• Vixen (last appearance in Animal Man #10; next appearance in Animal Man #12)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #10; next appearance in Animal Man #14)

Villain(s)

• Hamed Ali (next appearance in Animal Man #12)
• Tabu (Hamed Ali's associate; next appearance in Animal Man #12)
• Ali's men (next appearance in Animal Man #12)

Other Character(s)

• Two aliens (last appearance in Animal Man #10; next appearance in Animal Man #12)
• Ellen's unnamed friend (last appearance in Animal Man #10; no further appearances)
• A shaman (next appearance in Animal Man #12)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Roger Denning (in flashback to Buddy's origin)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #10 and continues in Animal Man #12.

Synopsis:
Animal Man is put back together by two aliens. When he regains consciousness, Buddy finds himself on the African plain with Vixen. Animal Man's powers have returned with a heightened intensity. Before he can act on any of the new instinctual impulses, Buddy and Vixen are attacked and captured by Hamed Ali, a long-lived ape man.

Meanwhile back at home, Ellen Baker has forgotten her own children. She then vanishes without a trace.