Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson #5

Dates

Cover date

[August] 2001

On sale

August 2001

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

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

• Direct edition (original)

  No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

  Barcode 75960602854200811

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07148602854308

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• Wild, Wild Bart · 13 pages

  Alternate world story set in the far west of 1872: Bart and Martimus must get back all the water stolen by Dr. Ralph Braneless.

• The Case of the Hanging Shoes · 4 pages

  Lisa solves the mystery of who put Martin Prince's shoes over power lines.

• Bart Simpson's Day Off · 10 pages

  Bart and Milhouse skip school to have some fun, but must instead try to avoid being caught.

Publisher’s description

In a tale from the wild, wild west, maverick government agent Bart Simpson, along with master of disguise Martimus Prince, must put a stop to the world?threatening and earth- shattering schemes of Dr. Ralph Braneless. In other stories, Lisa matches wits with Principal Skinner in a Springfield Elementary whodunit, and Bart and Milhouse take the school day off. Wild, Wild Bart (Bart in the Wild West)The Case Of The Hanging Shoes (The Secret Files Of Lisa Simpson : who put Martin's shoes over the power lines?)Bart Simpson's Day Off (will Bart and Milhouse get caught playing hooky?)Bart's Puzzle PageBart's People (letters and fan art)

Reprinted in

Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson (2001), Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson (2003), Simpsons Illustrated (2012)