Cover Art of Animal Man (1988) #61.
*Buddy's son, Cliff, ran away from home... straight into the arms of his twisted Uncle Dudley. Dudley undertook to corrupt Cliff to his necrophiliac ways, and to thwart his rescue by crushing Animal Man under the wheels of his truck. But Buddy wasn't ready to die. His son was still in danger. he loved his wife too much. He could not bear to be parted from his daughter, Maxine, who inherited his sensitivity to the Life-Web. So Buddy climbed evolution's ladder, returned to the living, and rescued his son... but he was barely Buddy anymore. He wasn't even human. *Source: Back of card