The New Wave #5 was published by Eclipse on August 1, 1986, as part of a series that began in 1986. Mindy Newell and Sean Deming write, and art comes from David Lloyd, Lee Weeks and Paul Gulacy. This 20-page issue features Dot, Polestar, Tachyon, Impulse and Avalon, among 9 characters cataloged on VerseDB.