Hired Animal Man for his first official case in Grant Morrison's run on the character. Dr. Myers, working for S.T.A.R. Labs, hired Buddy to investigate when monkeys in his laboratory project were fused together by an unknown intruder. He claimed to be working on an AIDS vaccine, but in reality he was developing an anthrax strain. When Buddy discovered the truth later, he knocked Dr. Myers out with a single punch and left, having regretted ever working for the man.