Comic Title: Starman #5
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: Holiday 1988
On Sale Date: October 25, 1988 Shipping Date October 25, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #9

Shipping Date October 27, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #151

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Don't You Know There's a War On?"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Starman (Will Payton)

Crossover Event:
Invasion

Writer: Roger Stern
Penciller: Tom Lyle
Inker: Robert Allen Smith
Letterer: Robert M. Pinaha
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Starman (see Comment; last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Invasion #2)

Guest Star(s)

• Firestorm (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Invasion #2)
• Mikhail Arkadin (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #81)
• Martin Stein (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #81)
• Power Girl (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Invasion #2)
• Firehawk (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Invasion #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jayne Payton (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)

Villain(s)

• Harold Melrose (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Alan Madison (revealed to be a Durlan spy; last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Power Elite (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Stanley Hale (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Olivia Hardy (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Samantha Morgan (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• David Winters (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Dennis Blake (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Frank Donovan (last appearance in Starman #4; next appearance in Starman #6)
• Dominators (last appearance in Invasion #1; next appearance in Swamp Thing #81)
• A Psion (no further appearances)
• Khunds (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Wonder Woman #25)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Easy Company (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; no further appearances)
• Adam Strange (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80; next appearance in Invasion #2)

Other Character(s)

• Russell (a technician; no further appearances)
• Members of a school faculty (Peg and Terry named; no further appearances)

Comments:
This issue is labeled as an Invasion First Strike Extra.

Pages 12-15 take place concurrently with Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #80.

Synopsis:
Starman is held captive at the Hutchings Institute after being captured by the Power Elite. Doctor Melrose wants to siphons off Starman's power and transfer it to his own subjects. When news of an alien invasion breaks, Melrose orders the facility locked down. However, a Durlan spy masquerading as Alan Madison is still inside. The Durlan notifies the alien alliance that Starman is worth studying, so a transport ship is dispatched to pick him up.

The Durlan is able to smuggle Starman out of the Institute and aboard the Khund ship. However, he is captured. The transport ship is intercepted before it can return to the alien fleet by Firestorm, Firehawk, and Power Girl. Starman also breaks free and overpowers the Khund pilot.

The four heroes then head to the South Pacific where a battle is underway. The Khunds fire on their own ship and destroy it. However, the heroes exit the ship and lend a hand to Easy Company who are fighting the Khunds. They are victorious. During the battle Starman also liberates Adam Strange, who had been a captive of the aliens. He puts the heroes in touch with the Justice League, who want them to come to a meeting being convened by Captain Atom.