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Mitch D. - All but one of your ideas has been produced.
World's Finest #178 - Superman loses his powers and recreates himself as Nova. Also, any number of Kandor stories. I like the Nightwing and Flamebird stories best.
"How Superman Would End the War" - by Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster - Look Magazine, Feb 27 1940 and reprinted under several covers, e.g., "The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told."
Batman Annual #10 - "Down to the Bone" - Through the machinations of Professor Hugo Strange, Wayne Enterprises stockholders are intimidated to sell out, and Bruce loses control of W.E. He also loses stewardship of Jason Todd, and Wayne Manor is taken as collateral for all of Bruce's debts. The Batmobile has a tire stolen, and the Joker escapes. (Okay, maybe not that last one... :)
Kal-El wasn't black, but a slight twist - having Jor-El, Lara, or both from Vathlo Island on Krypton would have had him black (Vathlo Island being home to a race of scientifically advanced blacks - rather a suitable home for Jor-El, honestly.)
Superman wasn't black, but in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #86, we find "I Am Curious (Black)!", named after a 70s film, "I Am Curious (Yellow)". To get a cultural story in Metropolis' Little Africa, Lois uses a device to make her black for a period of time. Bad taste? Pushy story? Well, this was DC was making its big changes, so it wsa a reasonable chance that the story wouldn't be rejected by the readers.
Switching sidekicks - sure! Let's go extreme! Barbara Gordon to Diana Prince to become an amazon. Dick Grayson to Superman, with a flight ring and Flamebird outfit. And Wally West to Bruce Wayne... Dark Lightning strikes!
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