#238 – Bernhard "Buddy" Baker

Today we talk about Bernhard "Buddy" Baker, best known as Animal Man, who is a wife guy, an animal lover, and sometimes an avatar of the energy field that connects every animal on earth.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:

-Strange Adventures (1950) #180

-Action Comics (1938) #552

-DC Comics Presents (1978) #77

-Crisis on Infinite Earths (1988) reading order

-Animal Man (1988)

-Buddy turning into a leech in Injustice #18 panel 1 panel 2

(briar originally said limpet and meant lamprey but turns out it's a leech!)

-Justice League International (1987) #24

-Justice League Europe (1989)

-JLA (1996) #27

-Infinite Crisis (2005) reading order

-52 (2006)

-Countdown to Adventure (2007)

-Justice League (2006) #24

-Justice League: Cry for Justice (2009)

-The Last Days of Animal Man (2009)

-Starman/Congorilla (2011) #1

-Justice League of America (2006) #54-59

-Animal Man (2011)

-Dark Nights: Death Metal Robin King (2020) #1

-Dark Nights: Death Metal (2020) #5

-Robin (2021) #15 pride variant

-The Secret X-Men (2022) #1 (Variant)

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