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Adventures of Superman Annual #5

DC · Series began 1987 · [October] 1993

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Dates

Cover date: [October] 1993
On sale: August 19, 1993
Pages: 68

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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.
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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07099231700435
This edition’s page

Story arc: Bloodlines

This is part 10 of 15. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: Mike Zeck, Tom Grummett, Ed Hanniganinks: Karl Kesel, Margeaux Pepoyscript: Karl Kesel, Tom Grummettcolors: Tom Ziukoletters: Albert DeGuzman

Stories

Blood Relations! · 54 pages
Superboy is recovering in the hospital when Maggie Sawyer recruits him to help track down the Bloodlines aliens. The aliens have secretly set up in a building and started a cult to attract food. Meanwhile, D.C. Force and her Uncle Harry have arrived in town. They are from a family of super-heroes, and it's time for D.C. to get her powers. In the battle with the aliens, D.C. is bitten, transforming her into Sparx. Sparx and Superboy run off the aliens.

Publisher’s description

The BLOODLINES Summer Annual crossover event continues from Justice League America Annual #7. The teenage Superman is electrified when Sparx - the latest infusion of New Blood in the DC Universe - makes her shocking debut in Metropolis! And, as the super-powered New Blood sprout up across the DC Universe, a strange family of meta-humans sacrifices its only non-powered child to the hideous extraterrestrial parasites! BLOODLINES continues in Hawkman Annual #1.

Reprinted in

Superman (2016), Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (2019), Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Compendium (2025)