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: "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 From:
Animal Man #15 (1989)

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.