Blue Beetle #5 was published by DC Comics on October 1, 1986, as part of a series that began in 1986. Dick Giordano and Len Wein write, and art comes from Bruce Patterson, Gene D'Angelo and Paris Cullins. This 36-page issue features Ted Kord, Question (Sage), Dan Garret, Maxwell Fisher and Melody Case, among 18 characters cataloged on VerseDB.