Action Comics (vol 1) #397 VG

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1 - Secret of the Wheel-chair Superman (Part 2 of The Super-Panhandler of Metropolis). Jimmy Olsen drops a coin into a beggar's cup on the street, and the coin bounces out of the cup. As the beggar bends over to retrieve the coin, his blanket falls off revealing that he is Superman, confined to a wheelchair. Superman manages to flee the pursuing crowd, but Jimmy tracks him down, and Superman tells him the story of how he came to be in this state. After a series of missions went wrong, in that the super-science of the 1990s had solved the crises before Superman arrived, Superman began to lose his powers, eventually becoming so weak he couldn't even walk unaided. Jimmy persuades Superman to visit a neurologist, who diagnoses Superman's problem as mental - believing that he is no longer...