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* Any ''[[Miracleman|Marvel/Miracleman]]'' comic, due to notorious legal wrangling over the rights to the characters and stories. The rights were acquired by Marvel in 2009, but only for the original 1950s/1960s ''Marvelman'' stories, the scripts from the [[Alan Moore]] and [[Neil Gaiman]] stories, and the rights to use the characters in new stories. While this means that the Gaiman stories can be reprinted, Neil's run completed, and new ''Marvelman'' stories published, the Moore stories are still off-limits due to Marvel having to renegotiate with the artists, among which includes [[Rick Veitch]], who has been singled-out as being a potential hold-out due to his disdain for Marvel.

* Due to Disney's infamous lawsuit, ''Air Pirates Funnies'', a 1970s underground comix series unauthorized by Disney which depicted Disney characters in sexually-explicit situations, is completely out of print. Original copies are valuable, although the series has made appearances on the internet.

* ''[[Suicide Squad]]'', a popular late-1980s series which had super-villains being sent on black-ops missions in exchange for a full pardon for their crimes, remains uncollected and plans for a black-and-white Showcase Presents reprint were scuttled by issues involving royalty rates for DC Comics published from 1976-96. These royalty rates also have screwed other Showcase titles such as Jonah Hex (Volume 2 can't be released because the issues that would be collected would contain issues published in this timeframe) and scuttled plans for Showcase volumes collecting "Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew" and "Who's Who in the DC Universe".

** More specifically, DC royalty rates from this time period were for a fixed amount rather than a percentage of the cover price. Showcase Presents reprints a lot of issues at a low cover price, and the fixed amounts would make it unprofitable, so DC has to renegotiate everything.

* Jon Muth's gorgeous graphic novel "Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares", published by Marvel Graphic Novels in the early 90's, hasn't seen the light of day for years, despite it being one of the best and more unique adaptations of Stoker's novel and would be of great interest to Dracula fans.

* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' fans have long suffered due to politics involving the comic's most famous writer-turned-head of DC Comics Paul Levitz. Levitz, known for vetoing the collection of stories whose writers and artists are out of favor with DC Comics for various reasons, has long refused to collect his ''Legion'' run in TPB format, going so far as even stopping the popular and commercially-successful LOSH Hardcover Archive series due to it having reached the point where his first issues on the book were published, just so that he could use the lack of his books released to justify his corrupt policies of who gets their work collected. This has had a detrimental effect upon the ''Legion'' franchise as, save for the Great Darkness Saga (which was out of print for over a decade), the only way to buy the Legion was to pay $50 a volume for the DC Archives, which while being a comprehensive collection of all Legion stories, consists mainly of the Adventure Comics era, which are at best a mixed bag qualitywise. The Legion's 1980s run, where Levitz took over the franchise and made it into a hit series, remained uncollected and unseen until two years ago when Levitz (to tie into the return of the Pre-Zero Hour Legion) released two volumes collecting the first 13 issues of Legion V3, ironically even as "The Great Darkness Saga" has once again fallen out of print.