DC Announce Brand New Alex Ross Connecting Variant Cover For ‘Avengers/JLA #4’ Facsimile.

DC Comics have just announced a brand new Alex Ross connecting variant cover for their upcoming facsimile release of ‘Avengers/JLA #4’.

The summer DC, alongside Marvel are re-releasing the 2003/2004 JLA/Avengers crossover by Kurt Busiek and George Pérez as a series of facsimile comics. For Marvel’s release of ‘JLA/Avengers #3’ which is set for release in July, Alex Ross is set to the connecting variant cover, that will then connect with DC’s release of ‘Avengers/JLA #4’ also by Alex Ross which is set for release in August. Here’s a look at both covers:

These new pieces are part of a two-piece connecting image which has been released EXCLUSIVELY for the facsimile editions, it is to pay homage to Pérez’s 1983 cover for ‘Comics Interview Special Edition #6’. When put together, the artwork will form a face-off between the two iconic teams. Here’s the official and original synopsis from DC:

It’s the grandest Marvel and DC comics crossover of them all and an icon-packed event decades in the making! After years of anticipation, JLA/Avengers reunited acclaimed writer Kurt Busiek (Marvels) with hisAvengers collaborator George Pérez—an artistic legend for both companies—to assemble every single member of Earth’s Mightiest and the World’s Greatest in one blockbuster book! Universes collide as the Justice League fights the towering Terminus and the Avengers face the awesome menace of Starro! Each team must undertake an epic quest on the other’s world, with the fate of both realities in the balance!

Marvel’s ‘JLA/Avengers #3’ is set for release in July and DC’s ‘Avengers/JLA #4 is set for release in August, you can preorder the issues right now from your local comic shop and you can also request all four facsimile editions to complete the set.