Infinite Crisis #1 page 32

Not telling you the price I paid, but it turns
out this page is the most expensive piece of original comic art I have ever (or probably will ever) purchase. This page, from the "Infinite Crisis" mini-series, features the return of the "Golden Age" Superman and the rest of the crew from the 1985-1986 series, "Crisis on Infinite Earths". "Infinite Crisis" had several "comic book controversies" associated with it both during and
after its intial run. You can locate most of them on the web (that's slang for "internet"), but some of the more interesting ones:

1) Infinite Crisis, Infinite Re-Write. During both the reprints of "Infinite Crisis", and the issuance of the hardcover, many parts of the dialog were re-written from the original published version. One of the more interesting ones was when Superboy (the Earth 1 clone of Superman), fought Superboy-Prime in Smallville, and uttered those immortal words "COME ON, YOU MOTHER..". This was changed in the second printing of Infinite Crisis #4 to "COME ON.." (and then in the third printing to "C..."). I suspect this series was also being re-written even before it was completely finished. Most people agree the story seemed to take a major turn from the previous storyline about issue #4. Also, along the way, rumors were circulating that Doomsday would appear in the series, and it would be the Joker who "saved the day" and killed the major villain. Both of these came true in the final issue #7, with Doomsday leading the villains charge on Metropolis, and the Joker appearing to kill Alex Luthor of Earth Three. I've always wondered if this was planned, or was the result of feedback and speculation on the internet. Other changes appeared with the reprint of the full series a few months later. Besides changes in dialog, the hardcover also included changes in the actual art, including additional pages. One of the original complaints from Infinite Crisis #7 was the fight scene between Batman and Deathstroke the Terminator was too short (i.e. a slam of the head to the concrete). An additional page was added to flesh out the fight. I actually own that page as well, but thats for another story.

2) Batmans Gotta Gunnnnn...Batmans Gotta Gunnnnn...which leads into a second controversy in the original publishing of "Infinite Crisis #7". Soon after the Batman/Deathstroke fight, Batman, Alex Luthor, and all the Batman family are trapped together. Batman, already over the edge in this series, grabs a gun, sticks it in Alex's face, and a "CHAK” sound effect appears. This sound effect was removed from the final hardcover version. Due to Batman's well know hatred of guns, the controversy was, did Batman he actually pull the trigger and the gun jammed, or was he only loading the chamber as DC Comics later claimed. Apparently, DC Comics made sure to remove this sound effect from the hardcover reprint to make sure it didn't look like Batman was going "Dirty Harry...punk!"

3) Crisis on Infinite Lawsuits. Another interesting event going on during the "Infinite Crisis" run was a lawsuit by the heirs of Jerry Siegel to recliam the rights to Superboy (young Clark Kent in the super-suit). Siegel won the rights back in a 1947 trial and sold the rights to National (DC) in 1948. According to then-current copyright law, the rights were to revert 28 years later (1976), but in 1976 Congress updated the laws for another 28 years
(which would be 2004) and gave the rights holders the opportunity to get them back at the end of the 56 years. That's what the Siegels did in 2004, and the judge ruled that since DC bought the rights in 1948, that very fact acknowledged that the Superboy rights belonged to the Siegels. The Siegels reclaimed the rights to the Superboy name as the "Infinite Crisis" series was ending, which led to the rumours that Superboy (Kon-El) was killed and Superboy-Prime (from Earth-Prime) turned evil due to DC no longer being able to use the name Superboy. What was definite is that DC had to name its new Legion cartoon Superman and the Legion of Super Heroes, and rename Superboy-Prime to Superman-Prime during the present "Sinestro Corps" storyline, even through both characters still appear as teenagers.