Starman #5

Dates

Cover date

Holiday 1988

On sale

October 27, 1988

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

  Direct

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

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07098931137485

  This edition’s page

Story arc: Invasion

This is part 8 of 16. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Flash (1987) #21
2. Wonder Woman (1987) #25
3. Firestorm the Nuclear Man (1987) #80
4. Invasion (1988) #1
5. Doom Patrol (1987) #17
6. Justice League International (1987) #22
7. Power of the Atom (1988) #7
8. Starman (1988) #5
9. Checkmate (1988) #11
10. Captain Atom (1987) #24
11. Detective Comics (1937) #595
12. Invasion (1988) #2
13. Swamp Thing (1985) #81
14. The New Guardians (1988) #6
15. Adventures of Superman (1987) #449
16. Invasion (1988) #3

Creators

Stories

• Don't You Know There's a War On? · 22 pages

  The Power Elite have captured Starman so that his powers can be transferred to them, but the alien invaders want Starman's power for themselves and take him away. He's rescued by three heroes who enlist him in the fight against the invasion, traveling to the South Pacific to overtake a Khund outpost with the help of Easy Company of the US Army. They find Adam Strange and free him, then are summoned by Captain Atom to a war council in Washington.