I think! it should of been longer like 12 books with the 48 pages.There are a lot of Superheros and Villains that needed to be fix up or killed off. Some heros and Villains had been killed off. I though there should not have been killed off. But some Heros and Villains that were fix up was good. But I have to say I dont think the Crisis has end. I think there is a lot more to come after 52 and One year later are finsh. I know there is still more to come. 

No it wasn't. JBs just don't mention it would have been the best way. But even then some fans were continuity obsessed. All changes needed an "in story" explanation for them. This persists even to day and probably to a greated extent,(As the fan base shrinks all that seems to be left are the continuity obsessed) The days of the stealth reboot are gone. Superman cant suddenly have a career as Superboy without a contrived reality altering event that spans several issues and still has fans pestering Editors about issue 123, page 6, panel 2 and if it happened or not. And if not when will they get to see the new version of what happened.

QUOTE: When does the word "superhero" originate, then? Who did it describe? I always thought the word post-dated Superman's debut.

The term "the superman" certainly predated the comic book character as it was the typical English rendering at the time of the philosopher Nietzsche's concept of the Ubermensch. Siegel and Shuster borrowed the term in 1933 for their initial villainous character, called "The Superman," and later that year when they made a new heroic character they kept the name. They were also influenced by the pulp character of Doc Savage (known as "the man of bronze"), to whom some have conjectured the term "superhero" first applied; others have suggested it first related to the Shadow -- and more candidates have been discussed.

The origin of "superhero" thus isn't absolutely clear, but the evidence from a variety of sources in and around the time of Siegel and Shuster's first conception of Superman, which predates the comic book by five years, demonstrates that Mr. Byrne was correct.

DC and Marvel actually own the trademark to the term "superhero." Recently a small company wanted to use "superhero" on the cover of a comic and DC/Marvel prevented them.

NPR covered this story with some background on the term "superhero" and you can hear it through this link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5304264

Also you can read the following:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6992

This link shows the actual trademark as recorded by the US Patent & Trademark Office:

http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=tm&qt=rno& amp;reel=&frame=&sno=&rno=1179067&asnr=& asnri=&asne=&asnei=&asns=&apct=&apcti=&a mp;rgst=&rgsti=

I often wonder how much thought was given to the ramifications that COIE would have on certain titles.

Surely it must have struck at some point with the events of the Crisis that there were going to be titles that may be redundant as per its events, or would need a major overhaul bigger than even Crisis to keep them going.

I've already harped on about things like All-Star Squadron, Infinity, Inc., LOSH and Young All-Stars, but look even at the Batman titles that seemed untouched by the Crisis at first. They changed Jason Todd's origin, and that threw a lot of confusion in to which stories or villains happened, as there was no cut off point or end with Batman as there had been with Wonder Woman and Superman.

Hawkman took nearly 15 years to get everything straightened out.

I think it was one of those things it seemed like a good idea at the time as it would boost several flagging characters and series, but there was no after thought to the series implications.