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Backstreet Project is a comic book created by Nick Carter and Stan Lee. The comic features members of Carter's band the Backstreet Boys as themselves as well as superheroes. The book was available for purchase at their concerts and online stores in 2000–2001.

Nick Carter, who was a comic fan, made an original concept of the comic planned as a six-issue series. In February 2000, he met Stan Lee through his manager from The Firm. Carter told him about his concept, and Lee was interested. However, they ultimately decided to make it into only one issue.

Burger King made action figures based on this comic book characters, it was available in 2000. A series of flash-based webisodes were also released in 2000. None of the characters were voiced by members of Backstreet Boys themselves.

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