After holding an ancient amulet they found in their attic, looking in each other’s eyes, and saying, “I wish I were you” at the same time, Jim Lee and Gary Frank have swapped covers. Lee will create a new cover for Ghost Machine/Image Comics’s Geiger, while Gary Frank will provide a cover for DC’s Batman.
“Jim’s a great friend and inspirational artist,” said Frank via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “When we first began talking about doing covers for each other’s projects, it instantly became a moment where you realize why you got into comics. The community, the friendships, the love of the medium and the appreciation of each other’s work is something unique to comics and its creators.”
Added Lee, “I’m thrilled to be able to collaborate with the massively talented Gary Frank who I’ve had the good fortune to call a true friend since the early 1990’s. Gary is a consummate professional, a Bonafide artist’s artist, a master of capturing light and form, and he’s drawn some of my favorite comics ever.”
Like the duo mentioned, this isn’t exactly an unprecedented, impossible crossover: they are two friends who have known each other for a long time. Still, it is fun to see Frank back on DC to draw a cover for Batman #163, the concluding chapter of H2SH in August, before it returns for another six issues on a TBA date in 2026.
The bigger deal (nothing against Frank)? Lee’s cover for Geiger #19 in October, which marks his first work for Image Comics — the company he helped found — since Spawn #200 in 2011.
“When Jim delivered his Geiger cover featuring The Glowing Woman, Ashley Arden, it was a special moment for all of us at Ghost Machine,” continued Frank. “It was also fun for me to dip back into the world of DC with a Batman image featuring the Dark Knight and some of his greatest villains.”
“We hatched this idea to do a ‘crossover’ even if it is truly only compositionally,” added Lee, “and I’m so honored to have a Gray Frank Batman Hush piece grace our ‘who’s who’ list of variant virtuoso cover artists!”
You can check out the two covers below, and Freakier Friday in theaters on August 8, 2025. And hey, it’s like they always say: you can’t spell “Jamie Lee Curtis” without “Jim Lee.”


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