Superman Comic Recalled for Content

In August 1999, DC Comics released the anthology Elseworlds 80 Page Giant, which included the story "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" by Kyle Baker and Liz Glass, featuring a sequence where baby Clark Kent climbs into a microwave. DC President Paul Levitz deemed the scene inappropriate and ordered nearly the entire North American print run pulped; only 700-2,000 copies escaped destruction, making surviving issues exceedingly rare and highly valuable to collectors.

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