History Main / FifthWeekEvent

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 ''[[Creator/TangentComics Tangent]]'' event had comics such as ''Tangent: Doom Patrol'', ''Tangent: Metal Men'', ''Tangent: Power Girl'', and ''Tangent: Sea Devils''.

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.

* DC's "Creator/TangentComics".
* "Marvel'''s''' Comics", a group of in-universe comics published about Marvel's superheroes, ranging from the completely approved (''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' drawn by Steve Rogers) to the gratuitously inaccurate (''Spider-Man'', ''X-Men'').

** 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.

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 ''[[TangentComics Tangent]]'' event had comics such as ''Tangent: Doom Patrol'', ''Tangent: Metal Men'', ''Tangent: Power Girl'', and ''Tangent: Sea Devils''.

* DC's "TangentComics".

* "MarvelMangaverse" redid various Marvel characters and stories in the style of [[JapaneseVisualArtsTropes manga]]. It was well enough received to spawn a (short-lived) monthly afterwards, and also to merit a 2006 ''New Mangaverse'' {{Revival}} miniseries.

* "Marvel'''s''' Comics", a group of in-universe comics published about Marvel's superheroes, ranging from the completely approved (''CaptainAmerica'' drawn by Steve Rogers) to the gratuitously inaccurate (''Spider-Man'', ''X-Men'').

* "Silver Age" was a DC Fifth Week Event that celebrated the spirit of the SilverAge, bringing back whimsical concepts like ''Dial H For Hero'' and the ''Metal Men''.

* The week of August 31st, 2011, marked the end of ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' and the beginning of the ''{{New 52}}''.

* ''[[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica 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).

* [[AmalgamUniverse Amalgam Comics]] is sort of a Fifth Week Event, except it was published in week 4. Spinning out of the Marvel Vs. DC miniseries, and published the same month, it was released in between issues 3 and 4 to fill the extra week.

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