This was the first for me as well, that I saw Swan's exit from the Superman titles in 1986 was anything but voluntary.
Regardless, he's a great artist, and his legacy as one of DC's great artists lives on. Swan, Anderson, Infantino, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Julius Schartz, Kurt Schaffengerger, Jim Mooney, and certainly John Broome and Gardner Fox, all I'm sure had their disappointments working for DC. Some took a harder hit to their careers than others. Infantino in particular was managing editor and publisher of DC up till early 1976, when he was abruptly thrown out and struggled for a while to even find work as a penciller again, whereas he had up till then essentially been the Stan Lee at DC. Infantino is responsible for most of the titles I look back on as my absolute favorites from 1967-1976. I'm glad I got to tell him that at a convention in 2012, before he died.
