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There's this superman strained visitor from another
world who came to Earth with powers and

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abilities far beyond those of bottle men. Superman who can change the cause of

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mighty wizards, bend the steel in
his bare hands, and who the skies

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as clock Kent mild manage quarter for
a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never

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ending battle for truth, justice and
the American Way. But in the American

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way. But the jointson appears an
important message. They gang. Here's an

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exciting story about some flyers who were
morooned at an iceberg way up in the

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frosty reaches of the Arctic Circle.
Their plane had been forced down and they

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were deefellows. This time, we're
really in a tough spot. We've only

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got about enough boot the three days? Is otherbody playing the twain for another

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week? Hey fight, you get
that radio fixed hit you're flying it.

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Matter of three. We'll keep on
playing. Maybe we can rake touch up.

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For five long icy days and nights, those fires kept the constant watch

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for the silver gleam in the sky
that might mean rescue. Finally, when

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the men were almost resigned to a
frozen death, nice I hear something.

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It's a plane. I know it's
the plane. Never see. I guess

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Harry's got out extra al right.
For guy, I don't hear anything.

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Why say it is a plane?
All right? He's DIFFI his wing,

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He's say yes. After five days
on an iceberg, those fires were finally

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rescued and returned to their base.
Now, it wasn't just luck that they

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came through such an experience as well
as they did, no, sir,

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because those fliers were in top notch
physical condition. They weathered those hardships successfully.

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And that brings me to an important
bit of information I have for all

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you fellas and girls. None of
you can expect to grow up really husky

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and strong unless you eat right,
which includes getting all your vitamins. Though,

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I want to tip you off to
a mighty swell way to start getting

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two very important vitamins D one and
D. It's by starting that they were

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a bull full of crisp crunchy Kellogg's
pap for breakfast. Ask your mother to

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get you a package of grand tasting
Kellog's pap tomorrow, and remember the name

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pep p e P pap is made
by Kelloggs in Bavel Creek, Michigan and

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now the Adventures of Superman, as
you remember, Superman and the guise of

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Clark Tent has become involved in a
new mystery having to do with Doctor Lee

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and the Cameron's invention of a mechanical
man. I can see, walk,

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talk, and even think for itself. We know the our friends do not

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that a new villain has entered upon
the scene, a tall, strange looking

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man known as the Vulture. In
our last episode, we heard doctor Cameron

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demonstrate a model of the mechanical man
for Clark Tent. When the demonstration was

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over, doctor Cameron was shocked to
realize that. But wait, let's listen.

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In that he tells the story to
edit the Perry wife in the latter's

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office that they daily slant, and
I suddenly realized, Perry, that the

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man I thought was clock Kent was
another person altogether. Oh impossible, a

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modern tackle in hide her inticulars nike
a IMMI was there and he started thing

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happened. Yeah, that's got fulmster
Wine is simply unbelievable, Leander. Couldn't

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you do anything to stop him from
taking the model of the mechanical man away

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with him? No, Perry,
you see it all happened so quickly we

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were just done. This man who
called himself there Virtua heads at bay with

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a pearl handled revolver, and then
he kicked up the model and control box

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and walked out. We came here
directly, Perry. This is a horrible

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situation to be in. That model
is the only one of its kind,

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and I couldn't possibly reproduce it.
There are in it certain delicate parts that

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could only be dishored in Germany.
Before the war weremany on Earth. These

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delica parts can only be restored in
Germany. How do you expect to make

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the life size mechanical man? It
would have been a simple matteric who copied

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the parts in the muddel, but
without the model. I'm help you see,

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Yes, yes, yes of course. Oh jeez, heard what happened?

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I say as quickly as I could, Hicks, Cameron, take amiss,

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Hi, I'm wondering if you really
are cock? Can you don't want

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to be pore to game? No, don't stop changing your face where I'll

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jump right out of his skin.
Oh yes, yes. When I hear

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a man who looked exactly like me
and spoke exactly as I do, came

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to watch your demonstration of the mechanical
man. That's right. And after we

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demonstrated the mechanical man model, he
held us up at the point of a

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guard and walked off with it.
Oh well, which he mands me,

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ken't you never did show up nor
I had a mysterious phone call telling me

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to come to a certain address on
the other end of town. Whoever it

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was promised me a big scoop,
and when I got there, I found

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there was no such plenty. I'm
beginning to see what this is all about.

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That voice on the phone must have
been the voters. He wanted to

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get you out of the way long
enough to pull this little tigure his Huh.

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Yes, that's obvious. Now it's
a very tightening thing to contempate that

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mud of the mechanical man being in
the hand of the vicious, unscript and

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dangerous criminal who'll sell it to the
highest bidder. I do not need to

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remain do that the mechanical man can
do anything from playing it end up guiding

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a tank. The axis powers would
give untold million to get their hands on

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it, and on the fade they
will if the boacher had anything to do

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with the There's only one thing we
can do. And let's to get in

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touch with the police at once.
Get me inflector hendersman and police like quarters

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at once, Doctor Cameron, tell
me more about this vulture. What did

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he look like? Well, he's
told in angling Betty's tennis to looking and

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when I really got a good look
at him, his past reminded me of

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a bird of Birtay by Heaven.
It made my stomach turnover, wife thinking,

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oh hello, inspect the Henderson say, Inspector, I'd rather not discussed

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this matter over the phone, and
I think i'd better come down see you

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right away. Wait you wait for
me, go ahead, be right there.

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Now we'd all better go down the
police head quarters and get some action

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on this at once. Head Where
are you going? Are you coming with

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us? Oh? Yeah, yes
sure, Chief, I'm gonna get my

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happing coat. How you right with
you? If my happen caught nothing,

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this calls for faster work than Clark
Kill could accomplish. You with this vacant

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room here, turn off in my
street clothes here and now to do a

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job as superman. Up with this
window and now to doctor Cameron's laboratory.

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Up up and the word here's the
daughter Doctor Cameron's lab lock. Well,

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no help for it. I'll have
to break in that now to have a

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good look around. The Vulture dropped
even the slightest clue. I've just got

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to find it. And so the
stowall figure in red and blue begins to

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search up and down the room with
incredible swiftness. He moved, searching minutely

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every single inch of the floor,
the walls, the work benches, everything.

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At last, in the corner of
the room, Superman's eyes falls on

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a small object. Hello, it's
this a button torn from an overcoat.

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I wonder if this could be of
any help. There's the maker's name in

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the back of the button, tiny
goat Print Letters Limited, the name of

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the shop of the overcoat was bought
pretty ritzy shot well at Narissa searched down

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somewhat now to get the letters for
information on all customers who bought overcoats there

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in the last year up to that
smash door. Now ha ha a.

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As Superman heads for the expensive closing
shop of Letter Is Limited, the Vulture

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himself is busy. He too has
lost no time, and in his lavish

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penthouse apartment a scene is taking place
which may have a far reaching effect on

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the American war epist. Listen,
mister cumurer sold you are the vulture.

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Yes, sit down as gentlemen with
your I taking I trust forever. Both

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gentlemen are honorable and trusted up,
and his ATM good. If you can

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offer me the press I want for
the model of the mechanical man. You

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will pay cash on the line,
and understood. It is understood. I

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have thought check for five hundred thousand
dollars. A check won't do. You

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may be honorable and trust ready,
but I want cash. You have no

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oubcheck to selling this modern wonder to
the Japanese government. I object to nothing

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that will bring me money. I
have no feeling of patriotism. We have

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not even seen this mechanical man you
stick off. It is here on this

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table. Come, I will show
it to you and I'll just remove this

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par from it. Yeah. Sorry, no, no, no, Nipperton,

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you appreciated. I see a man
made of metal and only a foot

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high. This is the mother Yes, a performance for me. Certainly,

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mechanism is warming up. Let me
remind you that this is no ordinary robot.

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This mechanical man can see, talk, walk, and actually think for

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himself. A missing I do not
understand how nor the why. But no

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more complicated pappens to a scientific mind
than our own telephone dining system is simple

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to the telephone company, most complicated
to me. With this mechanical man,

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I will have no trouble winning the
war Oncet. I would not give to

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see a legion of such mechanical men
marching against the Mecca and Marines in the

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to pacifics. I don't care how
you use it. All I ask is

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that you pay my price. And
I see the eyes of let up hoey.

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Look I the little manoir along.
One might say that he is.

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But now, gentleman, usual see
the most amazing thing of all you shall

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see this model of the mechanical man
in operation. Little tim man, I

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command you to walk at a love
you're seeing. He's walking across the table.

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No, he won't fall off.
See is shapt of his own accord.

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I think, I think what it
is marclar, miraclar and miraculous.

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Perhaps science, after all, is
a miracle in it self. This model

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of the mechanical man is nothing more
than the scientific achievement of the highest caliber.

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All right, little tin man,
walk to a safe spot. Then

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stop. You see what else?
Will that do anything it is commanded to

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do. However, gentlemen, it
is finished performing until I see the color

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of your money. Yes, let
us discuss that check. We will not

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discuss that check, commode. My
price is five hundred thousand dollars in cash

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and no tricks. Gentlemen, I
see you reaching for what is probably a

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revolver commoda. Let me warn you
that door you came through to enter this

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room is made of steve. The
door and the windows of this room are

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electrically wired on a high tension circuit. Do you know good to kill me

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and try to make off with a
model since you cannot leave this seal room

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without my say so, it's no
honor among thieves are saying, goes you

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wrong me? Komora has no intention
of doing harms. Kuma Milly wished to

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secure mechanical man. Your prices are
five hundred thousand dollars in cash, so

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that's right. It is a creat
deal of money. But I believe I

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can secure this money within the hour. You will wait. You will not

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sell Muddel to another bidder. Now
that I parmership, then Komora return within

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the hour. It is now five
o'clock. I will be here again at

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six or the four, at which
time the Mechanical Man will become the property

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of the Imperial Jaffanese Government. If
Comure can secure the cash and take possession

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of doctor Cameron's Mechanical Man model within
the hour, it will be much trouble

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for the United Nations fighting forces,
and just a moment will return to the

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adventures of Superman. But right now
here is another important message for you,

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say, Gang, I'll bet you're
is interested in good things to eat as

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high am, aren't you, So
let me tell you about a neat discovery

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imate At breakfast time the other day, instead of using plain white sugar on

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my bowl of Kellogg's Pep, I
tried sprinkling it with brown sugar, and

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man alive, what a difference that
made. There's something about the combination of

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those crisp, golden sweet as a
nut flakes with the tempting flavor of moist

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brown sugar, all topped off it's
plenty of good whole milk that makes a

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really a one breakfast treat. And
what's more, Gang, pep is mighty

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good for you as well as dog
gone good eating So if you somehow missed

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out on this grand breakfast cereal,
my advice to you is, don't put

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it off any longer. Ask your
mother right now to put down Kellogg's Pep

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on her shopping list for tomorrow.
And remember now he he get in sets,

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make your cereal Kelloggs Pep. And
now back to Superman. While the

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Vulture is making a deal with a
representative of the Japanese government, Superman is

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desperately trying to locate the man who
masqueraded as Clark Kent. With only an

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on which to locate the Vulture,
will Superman be in time to prevent the

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model of the Mechanical Man from getting
into the hands of the Japanese. We

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don't miss tomorrow's thrilling episode and be
with us every day, Monday through Friday,

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same time, same station for the
exciting adventures of Superman. Bullet into

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the single Hound. Follow the adventures
of Superman every day, Monday through Friday,

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same time, same station. Superman
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copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comic Magazine. This is a New twelve welcome back.

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I'm pretty sure that the story they
talked about in The pre episode commercial

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was done on Cavalcade of America as
nine Men against the Arctic, which I

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played over on the War podcast over
at the War dot Great Detectives dot Net.

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It was episode one hundred and fifty
six, played on April twenty third

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of twenty fourteen, Nine Men against
the Arctic. It is kind of weird

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to see war incidents used to Hawk
Breakfast Cereal. I guess it was just

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the times. Again, we do
see the Vulture continuing to show cunning and

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ruthlessness when dealing with everyone. His
planning for betrayal by the Japanese agent was

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definitely a good move, and I
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is a reasonable. While he had
said I think it was in the previous

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episode that it would be worth millions
to the government that got it. It's

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still essentially a model and is going
to require, as he said, it's

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going to require scientific mind looking at
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Of course, he could have taken
doctor Cameron, but that gets a

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bit messy. So five hundred thousand
dollars for the prototypes and the Japanese government

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can go ahead and reverse engineer it. But then they had to go ahead

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and bring a check. These sort
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I mean, getting that size of
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I mean there's very little that they
could do to make it more obvious

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than handing him a check, other
than see we wrote in the memo line

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for high treason slash military secrets.
I did have something similar in my first

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book, Tales of the Damn Night, that was being intentionally goofy. The

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only thing I think I'm really confused
on in this episode is how the Vulture

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toward this button. I didn't recall
anything in that episode where he would have

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had an opportunity to tear a button
he doesn't, you know, and just

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for it to happen casually or by
accident. He does not strike me as

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the type of person who wears clothes
with loose buttons, even in wartime.

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We'll pick this up. Unfortunately Part
nine is one of the lost episodes in

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the serial, but we'll get a
summary of what happened when we bring you

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Part ten on Sunday. In the
meantime. If you do have a common

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email to me Adam adamsweb dot us
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