Aquaman #5

Dates

Cover date

October 2016

On sale

August 17, 2016

In stores

August 17, 2016

Pages

36

Editions and covers (4)

Copies of #5 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Brad Walker / Drew Hennessy Cover

  Barcode 76194134183500511

  Source ↗
• Joshua Middleton Cover

  Barcode 76194134183500521

  This edition’s page
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 72527430428805

  This edition’s page
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  Variant CoverMetron

  Source ↗

Story arc: The Drowning

This is part 6 of 7. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Aquaman: Rebirth #1
2. Aquaman #1
3. Aquaman #2
4. Aquaman #3
5. Aquaman #4
6. Aquaman #5
7. Aquaman #6

Creators

Stories

• The Drowning Part Five: Executive Sanction · 20 pages

  Escaping from a federal holding facility, Aquaman and Mera must fight American forces who have been ordered to use lethal force against them. Tula prepares to launch an Atlantean war fleet against the US in retaliation. Meanwhile, Black Jack brings Black Manta to the N.E.M.O. base in Antarctica, where he meets the Fisher King.

Publisher’s description

Unjustly branded a murderer and a fugitive, Aquaman’s forced to defend himself against the might of America’s military. Meanwhile, Black Manta and the deadly underwater crime cabal known as N.E.M.O. advance their plan for revenge on Aquaman.

Reprinted in

Aquaman (2017)