ANIMAL MAN – DEFINITIVE READING ORDER, Including Pre-Flashpoint Titles, New 52 and More

DC Comics News brings you the definitive reading order, to date, for Animal Man. Including all the Pre-Flashpoint issues, limited series and beyond ‘New 52’.

Animal Man
is a super-hero who can use the abilities of any animal. His powers are gained from tapping into the morphogenic field known as The Red, giving him the power of any animal on the planet and sometimes the universe. In his secret identity he is an actor and stuntman, with a wife named Ellen Frazier and two children Cliff and Maxine living in San Diego. He has been a member of the Forgotten Heroes and Justice League Europe. Animal Man was created by Dave Wood and Carmine Infantino, first appearing in Strange Adventures #180. (1965)

Pre-Flashpoint

Issues with events ocurring before the line-wide reboot event ‘Flashpoint’.

Strange Adventures #180 (1965) – “I Was the Man with Animal Powers”, First appearance of Buddy Baker
Strange Adventures #184 (1966) – Animal Man: “Return of the Man with the Animal Powers”
Strange Adventures #190 (1966) – “A-Man- The Man With the Animal Powers”, First appearance of Buddy Baker as Animal Man
Strange Adventures #195 (1966) – “Animal Man, Hero or Freak?”
Strange Adventures #201 (1967) – “The Cackling Conjurer”

Wonder Woman #267 (1980) – ‘The Man Who Walked With Beasts’
Wonder Woman #268 – ‘Battleground: France’

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22 (1980) – ‘Secret Origins Of Super-Heroes’

DC Sampler #3 (1983)

Action Comics #552 (1984) – ‘Another Time! Another Death!’
Action Comics #553 – ‘The World At Time’s End!’

DC Comics Presents #77 (1985) – ‘Triad Of Terror!’
DC Comics Presents #78 – ‘The Triad’

Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (1986) – ‘Aftershock’
Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 – ‘Final Crisis’

Secret Origins #14 (1987) – ‘Starring Suicide Squad’

Animal Man #1 (1988) – ‘The Human Zoo’
Animal Man #2 – ‘Life in the Concrete Jungle’
Animal Man #3 – ‘The Nature of the Beast’
Animal Man #5 – ‘The Coyote Gospel’
Animal Man #4 – ‘When We All Lived in the Forest’
Animal Man #6 – ‘Birds of Prey’

Invasion #2 (1988)
Invasion #3

Animal Man #7
Animal Man #8

Justice League Europe #1

Secret Origins #39

Justice League International #24 (1987)

Animal Man #9

Blasters Special (1989) #1

Animal Man #10
Animal Man #11
Animal Man #12
Animal Man #13
Animal Man #14
Animal Man #15
Animal Man #16
Animal Man #17
Animal Man #18
Animal Man #19
Animal Man #20
Animal Man #21
Animal Man #22
Animal Man #23
Animal Man #24
Animal Man #25
Animal Man #26
Animal Man #27
Animal Man #28
Animal Man #29
Animal Man #30
Animal Man #31
Animal Man #32
Animal Man #33
Animal Man #34
Animal Man #35
Animal Man #36
Animal Man #37

Animal Man #51
Animal Man #52
Animal Man #53
Animal Man #54
Animal Man #55
Animal Man #56
Animal Man #57
Animal Man #58
Animal Man #59
Animal Man #60
Animal Man #61
Animal Man #62
Animal Man #63
Animal Man #64
Animal Man #65
Animal Man #66
Animal Man #67
Animal Man #68
Animal Man #69
Animal Man #70
Animal Man #71
Animal Man #72
Animal Man #73
Animal Man #74
Animal Man #75
Animal Man #76
Animal Man #77
Animal Man #78
Animal Man #79

The Last Days of Animal Man #1
The Last Days of Animal Man #2
The Last Days of Animal Man #3
The Last Days of Animal Man #4
The Last Days of Animal Man #5
The Last Days of Animal Man #6

New 52

As part of the New 52, all titles were relaunched, within a new reader-friendly continuity, this new continuity being called Prime-Earth.

Animal Man Vol. 2 #0
Animal Man Vol. 2 #1
Animal Man Vol. 2 #2
Animal Man Vol. 2 #3
Animal Man Vol. 2 #4
Animal Man Vol. 2 #5
Animal Man Vol. 2 #6
Animal Man Vol. 2 #7
Animal Man Vol. 2 #8
Animal Man Vol. 2 #9

Animal Man Vol. 2 Annual #1 (2012)

Animal Man Vol. 2 #10
Animal Man Vol. 2 #11

Event: Rotworld happens here.

Animal Man Vol. 2 #19
Animal Man Vol. 2 #20

Animal Man Vol. 2 Annual #2

Animal Man Vol. 2 #21
Animal Man Vol. 2 #22
Animal Man Vol. 2 #23
Animal Man Vol. 2 #24
Animal Man Vol. 2 #25
Animal Man Vol. 2 #26
Animal Man Vol. 2 #27
Animal Man Vol. 2 #28
Animal Man Vol. 2 #29

Justice League United #0
Justice League United #1
Justice League United #2
Justice League United #3
Justice League United #4
Justice League United #5

Justice League United Annual #1 (2014)

Justice League United #6
Justice League United #7
Justice League United #8
Justice League United #9
Justice League United #10

 

If there is any issue we are missing, please don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments section below.

 

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Antonio Jose Chavez

Antonio Jose Chavez

Antonio is a comic book artist-in process, writer and a huge fan of everything related to DC Comics. He would like to become the next Batman, however he lacks the billions to do so....oh and the ninja training too