Countdown to Mystery #5 was published by DC Comics on March 1, 2008, as part of a series that began in 2007. Dan DiDio and Lilah Sturges write, and art comes from Chad Hardin, Chris Chuckry and Dan Brown. This 52-page issue features Plastic Man, Spectre, Creeper, Eclipso and Dawn Granger, among 13 characters catalogued on VerseDB.