Media Release -- JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 is coming to comics shops on August 1st-- and now, DC announces that this issue will have a new 1:100 variant cover featuring pencil art by Jim Lee!

The JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 1:100 JIM LEE PENCIL VARIANT EDITION ( MAY189540 features Jim's portrait of Cyborg and is available for order now.

In this issue, Lex Luthor's back in the present just trying to live his best life after seeing what the future could have held for him. Luthor's new mantra? "Embrace Your Doom!" So now he's rounding up a new Legion of Doom to go on a cosmic wilding and establish himself as the biggest baddie in the DCU. In full recruiting mode, Luthor approaches both Sinestro and Gorilla Grodd to join his new team, and he doesn't exactly have to twist any arms. (They've got a matching 401K plan and great bennies, after all!)

This issue is written by James Tynion IV with art and cover by Doug Mahnke and Jaime Mendoza and an open-to-order variant cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #5 ( JUN180507, JUN180508 and MAY189540) is on Final Order Cutoff on July 9th with an on-sale date of August 1st.