As part of their 75th Anniversary DC Comics have been producing a series of special variant covers  that pay homage to their greatest, most iconic covers from decades past. The one for JLA hasn’t appeared yet and reason is that Jim Lee has only just started drawing it.

Lee shared several photos of his working pencils on Twitter including this photo:

However, that wasn’t the end of the composition and he remarked…

The background was going to be a city in ruin with skyscrapers being knocked back. Destruction galore. But I felt the negative space was too empty. That the composition now felt more like a panel than a cover and that it didn’t homage enough. But I felt the negative space was too empty. That the composition now felt more like a panel than a cover and that it didn’t homage enough.

The variant cover I am doing is part of the 75th anniversary DC homage cvrs http://twitpic.com/2rxuxc. So I went back to original layout…looked at the composition and changed it up as if I were drawing this cvr as I had “imagined” it…

Unfortunately we didn’t get to see the final version. I guess we’ll just have to watch for the 2011 solicitations.