Comic Title: Animal Man #4
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: December 1988
On Sale Date: August 30, 1988 Shipping Date August 30, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #7

Shipping Date September 1, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

Copyright Date August 30, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "When We All Lived in the Forest"
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 #3; next appearance in Animal Man #5)

Guest Star(s)

• B'Wana Beast (last appearance in Animal Man #3; next appearance in Animal Man #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Ellen Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #3; next appearance in Animal Man #5)
• Cliff Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #5)
• Maxine Baker (last appearance in Animal Man #3; next appearance in Animal Man #9)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Djuba (as a corpse; last appearance in Animal Man #3; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Myers (last appearance in Animal Man #3; no further appearances)
• Violet Weidemeir (last appearance in Animal Man #1; next appearance in Animal Man #20)

Comments:
This story is continued from Animal Man #3.

Synopsis:
Animal Man tracks B'Wana Beast to the San Diego Zoo. They fight each other until B'Wana Beast collapses. He was exposed to the anthrax virus that was given to Djuba. Buddy uses his own powers to absorb those of B'Wana Beast. He then uses the combined powers to strengthen the other man's immune system to defeat the virus. Feeling that B'Wana Beast was not the true villain, he lets him go.

Buddy returns to S.T.A.R. Labs where Myers is angry about how he handled the situation. Buddy punches him, then leaves. Later B'Wana Beast returns to the lab with Djuba's dead body. He uses his powers to fuse Djuba and Myers together. Trapped in the ape body, Myers is unable to communicate his situation to the other scientists who begin using him in harsh lab experiments.