From 2001.
Recently Grant Morrison's The Multiversity Guidebook included the Just Imagine... comics as constituting one of the 52 parallel Earths inhabiting DC's landscape. Seeing this particular comic available in the back issue sales at my local comic book shop made it an easy purchase.
I wasn't reading comics when Stan Lee wrote at DC for the first time in what has since become a forgotten event (except by Morrison), but I did a little catching up years later. Stan Lee is Stan Lee. He doesn't know a lot from subtlety, but then, his work with Jack Kirby and others did ignite the popular phenomenon that has since swept Hollywood.
The idea behind Just Imagine... may explain itself at this point, but here it is: Stan Lee creating his own versions of DC icons.
His Flash is a lot like his Spider-Man, for the record. Except really fast instead of really...spidery. The most notable aspect of the comic is the art, from Kevin Maguire. That was the other, less-publicized, gimmick about the Just Imagine... comics, that Lee teamed up with notable artists for each one. Maguire is still best-known for the Giffen/DeMatteis Bwa-ha-ha League, where he famously had the most expressive faces in comics. There was a more recent Batman Confidential arc where Maguire drew some sexy Catwoman and Batgirl material.
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What's more amusing is the backup feature with art from Sergio Aragones, the classic Mad Magazine contributor who's also known as the creator of Groo, the...buffoon Conan. Always great to see his work.
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