We begin with Superman in "To Save a Superman", the sixth part of the Sandman Saga storyline, by Denny O'Neil, Curt Swan, and Dick Giordano. Superman suffers a humiliating loss of face as he fails to stop a burning building from completely collapsing. Yet even as he contemplates letting humanity fend for itself as a way to placate his wounded pride, Superman decides to use what's left of his waning powers to stop a would-be bank robbery by the Anti-Superman Gang.
Meanwhile, Diana Prince's mentor I-Ching comes on the scene to help Superman, as he suspects that Superman's loss of powers may be of a supernatural cause. Just as I-Ching is about to put Superman into a sleep, Anti-Superman Gang members break into I-Ching's basement residence and club Superman in the head. Though suffering a head injury and now down to merely regular human strength, Superman prevails in defeating the gangsters. Reprinted in Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore HC (2009).
Our back-up from the World of Krypton is "The Man Who Cheated Time" by Cary Bates and Michael William Kaluta. Under the Scarlet Jungle of Krypton lies a condemned device, with which scientist Mal-Va planned to send his assistant Zol-Mar into the past and then return him after 10 minutes. However, Zol-Mar had ambitions of his own and sabotaged the machine, intending to stay in the past and be acclaimed for his mastery of the technologically advanced devices he carried with him. But the experiment, and Zol-Mar's plans, went horribly wrong when the time travel machine sent Zol-Mar in the wrong direction. Reprinted in Best of DC #40 (1983), Superman: The World of Krypton TPB (2008), and Superman: The Many Worlds of Krypton TPB (2018),
Edited by Julius Schwartz.
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