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* ''[[Zenith]]'' cannot be reprinted because [[Grant Morrison]] claims that when Rebellion bought the rights to ''[[2000 AD]]'' from IPC, it apparently didn't include the rights to ''Zenith''. The fans are disappointed.
* Morrison's ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' was kept out of reprints until the 2000s because of a trademark dispute with the Charles Atlas bodybuilding company over the character Flex Mentallo, who began as a parody of Atlas's iconic comic strip advertisements.
* Another well-known 80s superhero comic that has been caught in a rights-ownership dispute for decades is the [[Alan Moore]]/ [[Neil Gaiman]] ''Marvelman'' (''[[Miracleman]]'' [[Market-Based Title|in America]]) - Rebellion, IPC, [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Alan Moore]] and [[Todd
* The 1978 one-shot comic ''[[Superman]] vs. Muhammad Ali'' was not reprinted until 2010, as the cover included the liknesses of over a hundred 1970s celebrities in the background. The lawyers had to be convinced no one would sue.
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