Just Imagine Stan Lee With Kevin Maguire Creating The Flash

    (DC, 2002)
™ and ©2001 DC Comics

Mary Maxwell is a precocious high school girl who believes that life with her boring scientist-father will never afford her the exciting life she finds in her beloved comic books. But she doesn’t realize a sinister organization that her father once worked for wants him back at any cost. When her father injects her with hummingbird DNA to counteract the effects of a mysterious green fog her life becomes all that she wanted, but not without sacrifice.

This title was one of several that former Marvel creator/writer/editor, Stan Lee, wrote for longtime competitor DC. Stan Lee retired from Marvel’s publishing division several years ago to concentrate on licensing Marvel’s characters for movies. He was lured back to writing by the concept of recreating DC’s most well-known characters, but with the distinctive Stan Lee slant. Since Stan had been almost single-handedly responsible for ushering in the Marvel Age of Comics in the 1960s, this project was a great public relations coup for DC. Stan Lee’s Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and others were significantly different from the long established characters, making this series comparable to the Tangent Universe that DC published in 1997.

— George Haberberger
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January, 2002
Cover Price: $5.95
8 copies available from $4.50 		Stan Lee, Michael UslanKevin Maguire, Sergio Aragonés