Speaking of a pretty penny, Elseworlds 80-Page Giant would've secured you a decent college fund a few years ago. An anthology of out-of-continuity stories starring DC heroes - including a Lovecraftian Batman yarn where Bruce Wayne faces cthulhu and "Rockumentary", where Lex Luthor becomes the world's most powerful record executive - you can understand why one short in particular got editors in a tizzy. Because it involved a baby in a microwave. Riffing on the popular urban legend, Kyle Baker and Elizabeth Glass's "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" saw the ditzy Lerner make the classic blunder of leaving the microwave door open so her toddling charge can climb on in and get zapped by an unhealthy dose of radiation. Luckily for her, the Kryptonian kid can deal with a few minutes on "defrost". Regardless of context, DC didn't think it was a good idea to show a baby getting cooked in an all-ages book, and recalled the title. Since then the Eisner award-winning story has been collected in the mature-readers Bizarro Comics collection.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
