Dark Nights: Metal #5

Dates

Cover date

March 2018

On sale

January 31, 2018

In stores

January 31, 2018

Pages

36

Editions and covers (15)

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

• Greg Capullo & Jonathan Glapion Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600511

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• Tony S. Daniel Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600521

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• Andy Kubert Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600531

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• Jim Lee & Scott Williams Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600541

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• Bulletproof Comics Gabriele Dell'Otto Color Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600551

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• Bulletproof Comics Gabriele Dell'Otto Black and White Virgin Covervirgin

  Cover art with no logo or cover text.

  Barcode 76194134892600561

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• Bulletproof Comics Gabriele Dell'Otto Color Virgin Covervirgin

  Cover art with no logo or cover text.

  Barcode 76194134892600571

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• Bulletproof Comics Convention Edition Gabriele Dell'Otto Color Virgin Covervirgin

  Cover art with no logo or cover text.

  Barcode 76194134892600581

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• Exclusive Francesco Mattina Color Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600591

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• Exclusive Francesco Mattina Black and White Cover

  Barcode 76194134892600501

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• Exclusive Francesco Mattina Color Virgin Covervirgin

  Cover art with no logo or cover text.

  Barcode 76194134892600514

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• Planet Comicon Greg Capullo Wraparound Cover

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• Planet Comicon Greg Capullo Partial Color Wraparound Virgin Covervirgin

  Cover art with no logo or cover text.

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• Planet Comicon Greg Capullo Wraparound Virgin Covervirgin

  Cover art with no logo or cover text.

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• Planet Comicon Greg Capullo "Shadow Icons" Cover

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Story arc: Dark Nights: Metal

This is part 22 of 31. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #1
2. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #2
3. Teen Titans (2016) #12
4. Batman: The Red Death (2017) #1
5. Nightwing (2016) #29
6. Batman: The Murder Machine (2017) #1
7. Suicide Squad (2016) #26
8. Batman: The Dawnbreaker (2017) #1
9. Green Arrow (2016) #32
10. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #3
11. Batman: The Drowned (2017) #1
12. Batman: The Merciless (2017) #1
13. The Flash (2016) #33
14. Batman: The Devastator (2018) #1
15. Justice League (2016) #32
16. Batman: Lost (2017) #1
17. Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (2016) #32
18. Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs (2018) #1
19. Justice League (2016) #33
20. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #4
21. Hawkman: Found (2018) #1
22. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #5
23. Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt (2018) #1
24. Dark Nights: Metal (2017) #6
25. Justice League #53
26. Justice League #54
27. Justice League #55
28. Justice League #56
29. Justice League #57
30. Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1
31. Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025) #nn

Creators

Publisher’s description

The Justice League faces the final extinguishing of our world, invaded on all sides by unimaginable nightmares, fueled on to the edge of oblivion only by the belief that there must be a light in the endless darkness—somewhere. But…what if there’s not?

Reprinted in

Dark Nights: Metal: The Deluxe Edition (2018), Dark Nights: Metal (2019), Dark Nights: Metal Compendium (2025)