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Usually, the comics in a Fifth Week Event are all grouped around some theme. In 2006, Marvel did a series of "What If?" [[Elseworld|Elseworlds]] that all took place in the same universe. In 1998, DC did a series of "Girl Frenzy" comics that focused on various female supporting characters.
Fifth Week Events usually don't have a huge impact on continuity, since people who only read ongoing series won't see them. There are exceptions - one of the Girl Frenzy titles was used to kick off the series ''[[Young Justice (
Comic book publishers will frequently use Fifth Week Events to renew trademarks on character names. United States trademark law requires trademark holders to publish works using the trademark in order to renew it. As part of the Fifth Week Event, many characters who haven't recently held a regular series will have a one shot tie-in to the event with the character's name in the title alongside the name of the Fifth Week Event. For example, DC Comics's ''[[Tangent Comics|Tangent]]'' event had comics such as ''Tangent: Doom Patrol'', ''Tangent: Metal Men'', ''Tangent: Power Girl'', and ''Tangent: Sea Devils''.
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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-Up|aging the teenage heroes to adulthood]]. [[Lampshaded]] when an age-regressed Steel wondered why things like this happened "every fifth week or so." As a [[Fifth Week Event]], it was unusual in that it actually grew out of an ongoing plotline in the ''[[Young Justice (
** 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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