DC Celebrates Stan Lee’s ‘Just Imagine’ Comics for His 100th Birthday

When people conceive ofStan Lee , they think ofMarvel . Thanks to his cameos in many of the biggest movie blockbusters of all time , they likely always will . But there was a time when Stan the Man did n’t work for Marvel , and create his own projects hop to repeat his success . The most lurid one was , undoubtedly , when Lee collaborate withDC Comics — Marvel ’s eternal contender — to reinterpret DC ’s braggart superheroes through his own lens . The result was a series call “ Just Imagine , ” and now DC ’s bringing it back for the late Lee ’s upcoming 100th natal day .

Unless you were there back in 2001 , you believably do n’t know how lurid it was to hear that Stan Lee , the face of Marvel , would be working with DC . It was a bit like watch Mitch McConnell would be campaigning for a liberal Democrat . But it was even more lurid to divulge Lee ’s versions of Batman , Superman , Wonder Woman , et alia , because they were all super , ace weird . Batman was a luchador who looked almost exactly like Man - Bat . Aquaman was made of water . The Flash got her might from a scientifically adapted hummingbird . The Sandman was an astronaut . These characters were uncanny , gentleman .

But it ’s still nerveless to see DC honor a man who helped create the entire forward-looking comic manufacture … especially when Marvel has n’t announce a thing . Tales from Earth-6 : A Celebration of Stan Lee will be a 96 - page prestige comic with new tales of Lee ’s heroes as tell by folks like Mark Waid , Jerry Ordway , Stephanie Williams , and more . The one - guessing will also have eight variant covers , each one figure one of Lee ’s reimagined poor boy . As mentioned before , they ’re quite weird ! come home through to see them all .