Next week, comic book fans will celebrate what could have been the 100th anniversary of prolific creator and pop culture icon Stan Lee. While Lee has been almost synonymous with his work in the Marvel universe, he worked in the DC universe in the early 2000s through just imagine being. The impact saw him and Batman film producer Michael Uslan remix the origins of the core DC characters, which then led to a one-shot series published in 2001-2002 – and next week, their mythology will be added in a major way with the release of Earth-6: Stan Lee Celebration, a new anthology collection of one story set in that universe. As a new preview, which will include the introduction of The Choker, reveals, Earth-6’s take on classic Batman villain The Joker.
“Number one, Stan didn’t want to mirror or be a reflection of DC’s superheroes,” Uslan He explained in an interview with ScreenRant. He wanted to flip them. He wanted moments of flopping. So he really flipped the character of Batman. So, without adding any spoilers in the last panel of my story, I added another little Stan Lee kind of flipping that I thought I would appreciate from a traditional Batman perspective. And the other thing Ho, who’s the bad guy? And there was no question in my mind. I had a big smile on my face because I could hear Stan laughing. I picked a guy who’s a serial killer in Gotham City. He’s choking women. The press called him The Choker.”
What is the Earth-6: Stan Lee Celebration?
The Earth-6 anthology will feature ten new stories featuring Just Imagine characters, including a new story from Uslan himself. There will also be stories written by Mark Waid (Kingdom comeAnd the Batman vs. RobinAnd the Batman/Superman: World’s Finest), Jerry Ordway (SupermanAnd the Action comics), Kenny Porter (DC: Mechanic), Stephanie Williams (Nubia and the AmazonAnd the Amazon trial) and Michael W. Conrad and Becky Cloonan (Wonder WomanAnd the Butterls) and Colin Kelly and Jackson Lansing (Batman Beyond: New Year), Megan Fitzmartin (Tim Drake: Robin), Steve Orlando (Martian Manhunter) and Zack Thompson (Batman: Urban Legends).
Artists on the one-shot will include Lee Weeks, Kevin Maguire, Jerry Ordway, Karl Mostert, Juan Ferreira, Anthony Marquez, Pablo M. Collar, Belén Ortega, Max Dunbar and Hayden Sherman. The release will also feature a wraparound cover by Jim Cheung, and a number of medley covers by Steve Beach, Riley Rossmo, Jason Howard, Kelley Jones, Ariel Colon, Kyle Hotz, Christian Ward, Clayton Henry, Jorge Corona, Belén Ortega, and Dan Panosian, as well as to a 1-in-25 variant cover by Cully Hamner.
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Earth-6: Stan Lee Celebration It will be released wherever comics are sold on December 27th.
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