DC To Celebrate Stan Lee's 100th Birthday With Special Comic Release Returning To The World of 'Just Imagine'
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Well, that was unexpected. Stan Lee’s 100th birthday is approaching, and DC is finding a way to celebrate by bringing back the world he created for them.
DC will publish Tales from Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee this December. Earth-6 is the designation of the world of Just Imagine…, a line of comics co-written by the Marvel icon where he put his spin on DC’s most iconic heroes, purposefully invoking the writing quirks and tropes he had in his heyday. These were published from September 2001 until the following September, featuring reinterpretations of the company’s A-Listers from Batman to The Flash, and even beyond, with issues for Robin, Catwoman, and Sandman.
The series even had a Justice League of America formation and ended with a Crisis event comic of its own. Tales from Earth-6 is a 96-page one-shot anthology that brings them back. There are ten stories within it. Shazam! issue co-writer Michael Uslan, Mark Waid, Jerry Ordway, Kenny Porter, Stephanie Williams, Zac Thompson, Meghan Fitzmartin, and Steve Orlando are among the contributing writers. Ordway, Lee Weeks, Kevin Maguire, Karl Mostert, Juan Ferreyra, Anthony Marques, Pablo M. Collar, Belén Ortega are among the artists.
Having learned about the Just Imagine… series in 2015, it made Lee’s cameo in 2018’s Teen Titans Go! To the Movies all the more interesting. They joked that he was showing up in a DC movie despite being so tied to Marvel, but of course, he didn’t care. Really, he belonged because of Just Imagine…! This guest gimmick comic line made him the first DC writer to appear in Teen Titans Go! Of course, even such bits of meta humor can’t be expected to reference everything, even for a film with appearances from the Challengers of the Unknown. Marv Wolfman and George Perez didn’t appear on the series proper until 2021, so he had quite a head start.
Tales from Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee will be released on December 27, 2022, which is the day before Lee’s 100th birthday.
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Source: Multiversity Comics