Just Imagine Stan Lee…Secret Files and Origins

    (DC, 2002)
™ and ©2002 DC Comics

As with the other Secret Files and Origin titles, this book features a story that serves up background information about the designated character. Using that template, the story includes all of the recreated heroes that the Just Imagine line introduced. A mysterious green energy that is a common element in many of the character’s origins is expanded on here and lends cohesiveness to the Just Imagine universe. Additionally a common villain, Reverend Dominic Darrk, is profiled and is positioned as the primary antagonist for the Just Imagine heroes.

Marvel creator/writer/editor, Stan (The Man) Lee, was lured back to his writing role by the idea of recreating DC’s most well known characters, but with the distinctive Stan Lee slant. Stan Lee retired from Marvel’s publishing division several years ago to concentrate on licensing Marvel’s characters for movies. 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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    #1
    Mar 2002
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Michael Uslan, Stan Lee, Chris Duffy  ·  A: Chris Bachalo, Dan Jurgens, Dave Gibbons, Gary Frank, Jerry Ordway, Jim Lee, Joe Kubert, John Buscema, John Byrne, John Cassaday, Kevin Maguire, Scott McDaniel, Stephen DeStefano, Walt Simonson
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