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A nice tribute cover by Hembeck, but I'm not quite sure how to explain it.

Hembeck in tiny writing gives tribute to Kevin Maguire and Terry Austin at the very top. And my first guess is it's primarily tribute to the Maguire/Austin cover on JUSTICE LEAGUE issue 1 (1987 series) .
I like the way Hembeck took the pose of the new Justice League characters (of 1987), and replaced them with the original JLA characters from 1960.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=103671

But it also has credits on the upper right to an interior story by James Robinson and Mark Bagley, who were the creative team on JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (2006, Second series) issue 50.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=646541

And those are the interior story credits of the creators for (2006, 2nd series) issue 50, but while there are several variant covers, there isn't one shown by Hembeck, or a blank issue 50 cover that he could have drawn in at a convention. But maybe it exists but isn't shown.

Or maybe Hembeck just did it as a private commission page.

But it looks to me like it was done as an actual variant cover for issue 50.