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Of course, not everything that comes out on a fifth week is a Fifth Week Event. For a time, the closely-linked Superman titles (so close that they were often more like a single weekly series than four monthlies) had an extra series, ''Superman: The Man of Tomorrow'', that they ran whenever a fifth week came by.
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* "Silver Age" was a DC Fifth Week Event that celebrated the spirit of the [[Silver Age]], bringing back whimsical concepts like ''Dial H For Hero'' and the ''Metal Men''.
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* DC's "[[Tangent Comics]]".
* "Marvel'''s''' Comics", a group of in-universe comics published about Marvel's superheroes, ranging from the completely approved (''[[Captain America]]'' drawn by Steve Rogers) to the gratuitously inaccurate (''Spider-Man'', ''X-Men'').
* DC's "Sins of Youth" event, which [[Fountain of Youth|turned the adult superheroes into teenagers]] while [[Overnight Age
** Sins of Youth is also one of the few fifth-week events to actually keep comic book plotlines moving. For instance, Superboy learned Superman's secret identity, and Jack Knight passed on the Cosmic Rod to the Star-Spangled Kid after seeing her aged as "Starwoman". Shortly after that, she became Stargirl.
* ''[[Justice Society of America|The Justice Society Returns]]'' was intended to renew interest in the JSA. The event was a flashback story set in 1943, and the last page was a preview of the new ''JSA'' revival series that came out shortly after (and proved wildly popular).
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