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Crisis on Infinite Earths #5

DC · Series began 1985 · August 1985

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Dates

Cover date: August 1985
On sale: April 16, 1985
Pages: 36

Values

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Editions and covers (3)

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

Direct edition75¢ cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Newsstand edition75¢ cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0709893266108 · shared with another edition
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Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover

Canadian

Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.

Barcode 0709893266108 · shared with another edition
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Facsimile reprints exist

Crisis on Infinite Earths 5 (Facsimile Edition) (2024). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.

Story arc: Crisis on Infinite Earths

This is part 5 of 43. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: George Pérezinks: George Pérez, Jerry Ordwaycolors: Anthony Tollinletters: Gaspar Saladino, John Costanzascript: Marv Wolfman, Dick Giordano

Stories

Worlds in Limbo · 25 pages
Both Earths 1 and 2 have been consigned to a limbo created from the Monitor's last available energies before he died (as seen in issue 4). His foe wonders why he hasn't received those worlds' energies into himself like he did all the others that he's destroyed, but no matter - he still has 3 more worlds to destroy, and reveals himself to a captured Flash [Barry Allen] (captured in issue 3 by the Anti-Monitor). To be continued...

Publisher’s description

Two realities have been obliterated and even more will face that fate—unless a gathering of heroes from two Earths can stop it! Learn the truth behind this unfathomable war as the villain finally stands fully revealed and mages from across thecosmos make an effort to stem the tide of death.

Reprinted in

Crisis on Infinite Earths (1998), Crisis on Infinite Earths (2000), Crisis on Infinite Earths The Absolute Edition (2005), Crisis on Infinite Earths Deluxe Edition (2015), Crisis on Infinite Earths: 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2019), Crisis on Infinite Earths 5 (Facsimile Edition) (2024)