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Welcome to the Old Time Radio Superman
Show from Boise, Idaho. This is

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your host, Adam Graham. If
you have a comment, email it to

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me Adam Adamsweb dot Us. Well, on Sunday, We've got a serial

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that we didn't play our first time
through the series that I'm going to start

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presenting, and since we're bringing back
the show for those next three weeks,

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I decided this would be a really
good opportunity to do something that we didn't

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do the first time through that I
learned about later on, and that is

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that there was actually an audition recording
made in nineteen thirty nine that follows a

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similar opening storyline for the series as
the first two episodes that actually aired,

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but with a few key differences.
So we're going to listen to this really

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the first ever dramatize a take on
the origins of Superman, made only about

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a year after the character first premiered
an action comic. So let's go ahead

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and we will listen to the Origin
of Superman parts one and two, and

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then I'll talk about the story itself
and how it differed from what actually ended

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up going to air. Boys and
girls, your attention, please the blank

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featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and

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incredible personality, Faster than an airplane, more powerful than a locomotive, impervious

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to bullets. Get the Giant began
Superman of being no larger than an ordinary

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man, but possessed of powers and
abilities never before realized on Earth. Able

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to leap into the air an eighth
of a mile at a single bound hurdle

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a twenty story building with ease rate, a high powered bullet to its target,

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lift tremendous weight, and rend solid
steel in his bare hands as though

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it were papers. Superman trained visitor
from a distant planet, champion of the

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oppressed, physical marvel extraordinary, who
has sworn to devote his existence on Earth

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to helping those in needs. But
before we bring you the almost unbelievable story

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of how Superman arrived on Earth,
a message from the Blank Corporation, makers

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Drill. Now for the story of
Superman as it begins, We ask

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you to come with us on a
far journey, a journey that takes us

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millions of miles from Earth, where
the planet crypt On burns like a green

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star in the endless heaven. Here, civilization is far advanced. It is

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brought for the race of superman,
men and women like ourselves, but advanced

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to the absolute peak of human perfection. As we near Crypton, we see

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high walls and gleaming currents. We
approach the magnificent Temple of Wisdom. There

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in a great hall, Jorel,
Crypton's foremost man of science, is addressing

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a meeting of the planet's governing councils. And gentlemen attresion Gorel's speech, members

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of a council. I have completed
my solar calculations, and much as I

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dread uttering these woods, I have
come to the conclusion Crypton is toombed.

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Gentlemen, gentlemen in him out.
These internal quake we have been experiencing,

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These volcanic eruptions, tidal waves,
gas escaping from giant crackers, all point

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to only one thing. Krypton is
utterly and finally doomed. One moment,

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younger man on my land, there
is no cause for anxiety. I am

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saying, Goorel has made a mistake. Who we have had a few minor

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quakes in eruptions, but nothing that
you said he is. There must be

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some error in your calculation. No, no, there is no error,

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Rozan. I only wish they would. The Sun is gradually drawing Crypton closer

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to him. Within a month,
possibly only a week, the gravitational pull

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will be so tremendous that Krypton will
not be able to weather the strength,

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and then our planet will explode like
a giant bubble, destroying every living thing

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on as soon before the moment,
John, that what you say is true.

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How are we to avoid it?
What can we do to stop it?

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There is only one way, As
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working on a spaceship designed for interplanetary
trap. With time and United etport,

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we might transport the entire population of
Crypton to another world. Impossible. Where

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would we go to the Earth?
My studies tell me the atmosphere of the

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Earth is very nearly the same as
our own. You've been working too hard,

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Joreth. You need a rest now. Believe me. We have the

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utmost respect for your knowledge and integrity. But this is carrying it too far.

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Anux's largest Crypton, do not explode, Jon, Do you hear that

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it is a far warning of tomb. Every moment is precious. Now let's

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let that of sounding the death all
of Crypton. It will happen, and

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happen soon when the last great eruption
comes. When it comes your el it,

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you'll find us all ready. Krypton
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it. The putting would be much
too severe. All right, laugh to

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your life was on and you members
of account, I have no time to

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laugh. My wife, Lara and
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It is not my wish to stand
by and see them destroyed. Laugh all

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of it. But a time will
come, and that time is threats very

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close at hand, when you will
wish you would heeded the words of your

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ell. Now you think me a
fool, But remember what I have said,

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gentlemen, when Krypton is shutted into
a thousand million stars, when the

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glorious civilization we have built is no
more, when you when your families are

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swept from the face of Krypton,
like mother, gentlemen, you have had

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or ill speak. Is it your
wish that we devote time and money to

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the building of spaceships for the transportation
of Crypton's population to another planet? I

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am sorry, Jael the council,
I've spoken yes and signed the death warrants

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of every living thing on Krypton.
Well, I have done my best to

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convict you. Now all that remains
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means of salvation, my own spaceship, to save the lives of those near

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and dissert. As for the rest
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I'm your son, Lauren, you
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care of the terris you're terribly told. Ray? Is that because we're being

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drawn to the sun? Gil?
Yes? What did the council have to

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say about that? I didn't mention. It is the model of your spaceship

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almost finished. I just drove the
last with it. How does it look

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ended? Will it work? That
remains to be seen. Less. If

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it does work, I shall immediately
begin construction of another just like it,

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only much larger, one big enough
to carry all three of us to another

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world. When will that be?
Every moment that we've been waiting in one

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ding? I know, I know, Lader, it's been hard on all

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of us, and particularly hard on
you. How is the boy sleeping at

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quaked this afternoon? Frightened him.
But ego, right now, can't you

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come in and look at him?
He scarsely, seeing these days what we're

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working all hours on the spaceship model, it can't be healthier. I'm racing

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against Tyler right now. I'm anxious
to know whether the model would behave as

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I hope. How does it operate? Very simply? When all was ready,

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I throw the switch that closes the
circuit. An electric energy builds up

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pressure in the atomic generators. Then
at the final moment, the pressure forces

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the ship from its carrier and speeds
it on its way. But where does

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it go? Wherever? It's pointed
this one? I am directing to the

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planet Earth. What is that,
Darrell? A planet smaller than our own,

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situated on the other side of the
Sun. It is inhabited by a

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race of people similar to ourselves,
like ourselves, well only partly, of

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course. They're about the same size. But nowhere nearly is developed, very

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weak and helpless, and with all
their faculties extremely limited. How do you

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mean, Well, I haven't time
to go into detail explanation now, Lara,

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but it's something like this. You
know how far you step when you

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want to go somewhere practically as far
as I will want. My one step

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take me to brad as how is
near a start exactly down where I'm sending.

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This Rocket's quite different. An earth
man steps only three feet at a

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ti. I'm at most, and
everything else is in proportion. And that's

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where we're going. Oh which,
drather, do go to Earth and live

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or stay on Crypton and die?
I'll do anything you say, Joell anything.

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It doesn't matter to me whether we
live or die, as long as

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we're together. It's only the boy
I worry about Little Cover, Laura,

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don't worry. He'll be safe.
When will the matter be finished? But

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that you can start on the big
one. It is finished in the morning,

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just as dawn breaks. I'll send
it on its way, watching its

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flight through a high powered telescope to
see whether it lands safely on Earth?

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Is that the place you plan to
take? Call me. We could not

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breathe on any other planet but the
Earth. It happens to have an atmosphere

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similar to Crypton. I suppose you
know this, Jorell. Are you coming

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in? It seems to have gotten
oppressively hot. Yes, it has,

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I wonder, Lalla. Yes,
what subterrane of explosions. Do you feel

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the ground trembling? Yes? You
you're Elias Exac. I'm a friend's comer.

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What does the boy caller? Who
do you mean getting foy? Let's

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see em, Grell. Can we
do nothing? I'm not ready? Oh

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what a fool I've been to delay? If your falters you did all you

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could. If only the spaceship was
large enough, if we could take the

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chance, Jarrell, would it carry
one of us safely to it? Or

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I might think so? But what
is going on? Stay here with me?

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I'm getting cat up. If one
of us can dare relaship the boy

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say no, no, Lara,
come back. If one must go to

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be you a sleep good bye?
Can please Larry No, Terrell, listen

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to me. We both stay here. Kellel goes in the staceship. If

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there is a chance, till one
little chance I wanted for my son.

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Maybe you're right, La, Jurrell. Look the sky is fiery red.

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The mountains took the mountains going in
or Derrella casting the end of time,

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La, Just as I foretold,
this is the last great quake. Take

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the nick imption quick quick, give
me the boy? Hello, Hello,

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what are you doing, Grell opening
the door. What are you finding,

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jarrelle le Grell. He saved them
sid Now for the switch, stand by

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Clara, Oh Jael, when he
reached there only the gods. No,

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but there's a chance, the only
chance. Stand by Clara. I'm flowing

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the switch, Jarl. Jaral is
getting dark. I can't see what happened

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to fire smoke from the center of
the planet. Not much time now,

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holding Jarell. There's the stayship gone
go, not yet waiting for pessure.

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We may have in too late if
it doesn't work up soon, Laa,

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it's awful. Listener our boy,
kellow our sun. He's on his way,

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on his way to open. So
the tiny spaceship roars into the uncharted

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heavens as the mighty planet of Krypton
explodes into millions of glowing fragments glittering stars

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to remain forever in the night sky. Jorel and Lara, devoted parents of

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the tiny boy, perishing the giant
quake that destroys Crypton. The quart of

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the spaceship. Does it reach the
Earth? Does it find its mark in

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all the far flung darkness of space? Tune in tomorrow and follow the story

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of the sky. Look, get
the giant Bang, it's a plane.

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It's Superman. Superman. Don't forget
tomorrow, same time, same station.

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The Adventures of Superman, brought to
you by the Blank Corporation, makers of

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Blank, all the Blank Company,
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the Superman presents the Macan Look,
get the band's the plane, It's Superman.

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Superman. It wonder of the modern
world. Visitor from a distant planet,

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whose strength knows no limit, and
whose endurance is beyond anything humanity has

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ever known. Champion on Earth of
the weak and helpless, whose aim is

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to rescue the suffering and bring help
to all who need and deserve it.

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And remember this, if you two
would be a Superman and now Superman.

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Yesterday we saw how the child of
Jarrel and Lara was placed in the rocket

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ship and sent on his way to
Earth while his parents died in the terrible

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explosion that wiped the planet of Crypton
from the universe. Today, as our

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story continues, the child has become
a man. The rocket landed in the

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desert, Superman stepped forth, full
grown to explore this strange new world in

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which he found himself swifter than a
bird in flight. Unaffected by cold,

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hunger, or fatigue, Superman sat
out to investigate the ways of men on

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his planet Earth. We find him, at last, hovering with his curious

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power above a quiet highway in Indiana. The road, with its trolley track

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at one side, winds to the
top of a hill where the suburban car

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stopped to let off passengers, then
down again to the valley below, with

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a winding curve at the bottom.
A trolley is just pulling up the hill,

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and a Superman wheels and turns in
curious flight. Unseen below, a

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man and a boy come out of
the shed that serves as waiting rooms.

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Does she come sad? Her run
on time too? Now? I told

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you so, Jimmy, see,
I hope it stops all right? And

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on where him it's slowing down?
Does it always sway like that? Dead?

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Sometimes? Burnet's all right? Don't
seem to be many people waters the

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middle of the week, like traffic
on into town? Hope, so John

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taking Jimmy to the fair, great
show? All right, I reckon,

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you're the holy passengers. Make yourself
at home. I'm gonna give me adread

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my dead. We've got it.
All fart it down due regular private car

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flint the motorman golf, Oh just
over at the spring, mighty hot days.

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You gotta hurry if he does know, get left behind. You can't

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start without the motorman. Well we
are, Look Tad, John, Daddy,

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what's happened? I want to get
out the brakes. Something's happened to

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the break? Get out, click
open the door and jim that take shots.

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We're going to from man, we're
going down hill. What are we

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gonna do? Jimmy, Jimmy came
here. Wind you up the window,

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Dad, get it open station you
Dad, you know no, it's too

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late. During two pass, Sarah
doesn't train Jimmy a tree a three balling

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right on the track. Look paramous, it's a man. It can't be.

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It's not possible. Allow me,
no, put me, don't look?

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What are you thinking of me?
Where you put me down? Living

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your life on your ow? Then? Don't wanted to reach arm out the

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window and up in the air,
up, up, and we're off.

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I don't know what to say.
Right all right, professor pulling you when

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the boy out of that car was
nothing. I can't believe it. Why

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boy, where do you come from? I have no name. I come

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from a world that no longer exists. Here in this world of yours,

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men would call me as Superman.
It's a dream, a wild, impossible

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dream. But daddy had happened.
We saw it. He flew down,

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took us under his arm out of
the car. That's all. Nothing so

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strange about that. For you,
you saved our lives. Jimmy is in

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mine. I don't understand even no, but I am grateful. Are you

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a professor? Do you doubt it? Would you do something to prove it?

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Would we anything at all? And
make me a promise? Promise that

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you will say nothing at all about
what's happened? What don't you want people

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to know? Just yet? I
want no one to know except those I

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help. Will you promise if you
wish? I do believe me, then

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you have our word. Is that
all? No? You've given me your

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promise. Now I want your advice. You want advice from us. You

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know this world. I am a
stranger. You know the people in it,

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and I have still to find them
out. You want to meet men?

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Is that it not meet them?
Professor? Observe them, study them,

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see them at their best and their
worst. Know which to help and

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when up is needed. If you
can tell me that daddy, can we

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help him very I think so,
Jimmy. If that's what he wants and

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all he wants to me, it's
a great deal, my friend. If

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we can call you that, I
hope we can my first friends on this

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earth, to mingle with people,
to see men at the highest and lowest.

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If that's what you want, go
to a newspaper, a great metropolitan

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daily, a newspaper. I'll do
it and join their step, be a

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reporter. But you can't do it
in most clothes, not that blue costume

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with a cloak in the shield on
your breath. See, you're just couldn't,

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Jimmy. These are the cloak in
the shield of Superman. If I

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become as other men, professor,
I'll do it. I'll take your advice,

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and I thank you for it,
No thanks. If there were only

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something more there is remember your promise, and now goodbye. I've stayed too

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long and I'm all goodbye. Won
He said it as white cater. You

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matter got to come by on the
top post and going right away. Anything

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broke fad. I don't know why
you dope came from going to chow wasn't

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right. Where are you now,
Tom? Why were you? Somebody watching

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the man they call him crate crekeep
watching trailing home every minute. I'm crazy

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at the bottom of the shore.
You're born. Hey, I gotta made

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a combody coming to excuse me?
Just de wride that young men's are waiting.

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Watch up? Oh the one who
wrote the letter? Uh well,

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let him wait? Who we got
this great? The cans on the coast.

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Grayson's down in Virginia most of the
day. Minute full up. I

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knew it on the always the way, something breaks and nobody to handle it.

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What is it? Rare road sabbaties. I didn't believe it, but

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there may be something in it after
all. If there is, Yes,

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if there is, miss Lane,
it'll be the biggest story since Lynbury and

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me shorthanded? Oh what's the use? Yes, sir about that? Now?

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Send it in? Send him in, Yes, come in, mister

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Kent, Sit down. I wanted
to see me. Yes, sir,

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my name is Kent Clark Kent.
What can I do for you, mister

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Kent? Hell, mister White,
you can give me work, I hope,

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work on the paper. Yes,
I'd like to be a reporter.

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Oh, you'd like to be a
reporter Floyd Gibbons and disguise, No,

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sir, Not Floyd Gibbons ever done
any reporting, No sir, No sir.

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But you think you'd be a whiz
eh? I know. Oh,

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I'm sorry, it's just the same. You haven't any openings, not for

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green horns. I'm sorry if i'm
blood but mister White, but even if

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I am a greenhorn, suppose I
brought you a good story, and where

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would you get it? I'm afraid
you'll have to excuse me, mister Kent

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a really good story, such as
such as the complete inside on the man

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called McCray on the Southwestern Railroad?
What's that? You heard me? Do

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you want that story? Who I
wanted? Well, I should say I

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do. But look here, I
think I could get it for you.

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Mister White. What do you know
about McCray a little bit? Where'd you

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even hear his name in connection with
railroads? Mister White? Stop beating up

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opposh. I only heard the beginning
of that myself yesterday morning. Not a

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paper in the country has carried a
line, and yet I come in here

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and talk about it. I think
I could do something with that. Mister

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White other hare Kent mysterious secret messages
have threatened to tie up every railroad in

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the country, beginning with the southwest
of My goodness, mister White, for

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a while a road paying no attention, and the crack flyer on the P

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and R went off a bridge as
I read about that, Yeah, naturally,

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but you didn't read about the warnings
because they weren't printed. Weren't printed,

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No, and they won't be not
until the FBI and Washington has checked

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all the angles. And then this
man McCray. Oh, yes, yes,

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McCray. Where do you come in? How did you get to know

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McCray excuse me? Said it,
asked White. I am comin s flying

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you, lady dever for the West
will not arrive? What's that? What's

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the Who's this? I have?
And called a craze? That is all?

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Hey, come back here? Wait
wait, who does that? Just

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call me? Pray find out where
he was? Nuts a beg pardon sir.

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But if that call did come from
mc craye, I should be inclined

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to believe it he or do you
know who that was? I should warn

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the officials in charge of the flying
ute. Ok. Here, you couldn't

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hear that phone. What is this
I was saying, mister White, Suppose

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I brought you a good story,
a really good story, the story of

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how the flying ute was wrecked on
its way to Salt Lake. I take

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chances, Kent. I'm going to
take a chance on you. Thank you,

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mister White. Here's two thousand miles. You'll have to hop a plane.

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I'll get there, mister White,
in spite of the weather. Good

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lord, I hadn't noticed. Well. Get to the airport anyway, you

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rang, mister Way, miss Lane, missus black Ken temper early attached towards

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that you old note, I said, temporarily. Yes, Aunt leaves for

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the west for the first plane.
Get them tickets from the two hundred dollars

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bands, mister Whitehall planes are ground
here. That's all right, mister White.

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I'll get there. Hang him outside
and join money needs to know,

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mister Whider. I'd like to thank
you. Let it go, Ken,

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let it go, get a story
and you get a job. You're either

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clairvoyant or the luckiest guess are alive. Either way, I can use you.

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But if you miss out well this
way, mister Ken. Thank you,

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miss Lane. It's good of you
to show me around. Pretty lucky,

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I'll say, one hundred good newspapers
in walking the streets, and you

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walk right into a job, I
say, I am lucky. You ain't

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in here the ante room to the
cashier's office. Well, I really don't

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need an advance playboy in disguise,
and I should wait here. I'm with

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a beast of an evening. Don't
fall out that window at twenty stories down,

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beautiful view even in the fog.
You wait right here and I get

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your money. Then I'll introduce you
to a few real newspaper man. Plane's

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grounded, two thousand miles to go. Nobody's looking. I'm afraid I can't

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wait, even if I didn't keep
you waiting again. How he went through

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the city room, He didn't go
out the window, open window, He

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went through it, and it treating
day down. What do you say?

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What do you mean? I don't
know? Me out the window twenty stories

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above the ground. In the wink
of an eye, Meek Clark Kent,

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cub reporter for the Daily Flash,
becomes Superman, Eagle of the Sky,

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winging his way west over city and
plain river and mountains. But will he

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be in time? Can he checkmate
the strange figure called McCray. Discover the

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plot, say of the flying ute
roaring toward Denver at ninety miles an hour,

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Tune in tomorrow and follow the story. And meanwhile, remember tomorrow,

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same time, same station, time, Look big the pig, It's Superman.

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Welcome back. Well, the storyline
that begins in this episode is continued

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in the second episode of the podcast, recorded back in two thousand and eight.

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One thing I found interesting, and
it wasn't actually a difference with what

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went to error, was with the
opening, where in the very first episode,

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instead of it's a bird, it's
a plane, we get it's a

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giant bird, it's a plane,
which I think does kind of explain some

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things for people who don't quite get
this. This has really become such an

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iconic pop culture opening. I think
even some of the more modern Superman stories

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have referenced that they're always early on, and I think with a good reason.

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I heard a comedian recently say,
Okay, what were those first two

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people excited about? You know,
it's a bird, it's a blade.

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And the implication is, yeah,
Magdale, it's a bird, it's a

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plane, but it's a giant bird. Help explain that nobody who ever saw

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Superman flying through the air said,
oh, I thought that was a blue

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jay. Yeah, imagine if you
were that. You're in this, you

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know, just normal down town light, nineteen thirty city, and you see

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something that looks like a giant bird
flying through the sky. And this is

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the city, and in most cities
you don't get birds, you know,

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much bigger than a pigeon. And
you look up and see this bird that

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looks really really big, really blue. You have no idea what this thing

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is, and that's your best guess. And the other guy says, it's

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a plane. But keeping in mind
that this object is close enough for you

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to make out and close enough for
you to realize that it's larger than an

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actual, little, tiny bird,
the idea that it's a plane is not

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necessarily comforting, because a plane should
generally not be flying that low, and

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aviation itself was still not relatively new. It's been less than forty years since

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the Right Brothers first fly. How
do you see a small plane flying through

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pound flying really low? That could
really be something to be alarmed about.

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Not only that, but in nineteen
thirty nine, depending on this when this

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was recorded, world Ward started or
there was a lot of intrigue going on

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between foreign powers. So if some
foreign power who was going to draw the

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US into another war had developed some
miniature plane that was going to work some

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sort of mischief, So as an
initial reaction that those make sense. And

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then the third person either Superman got
low enough that he could see, yeah,

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it's was just Superman, or he'd
been through this a few times and

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goes, no, it's Superman.
I've seen him before. I thought it

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was a bird the first time myself. Now that does make sense and work,

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you know, for the first few
months that you know Superman is active.

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However, you know over time where
Superman actually becomes a famous part of

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life in Metropolous. If you see
a blue streak in the sky and go

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it's a bird, somebody's going to
look at you and say what's wrong with

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you, or just assume that you
are the biggest greenhorn around. So it

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makes a whole lot less sense as
an opening going forward, but it's just

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so iconic that it really doesn't matter
if it makes sense. And of course,

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you know, we can be deconstructionist
about the whole thing, but the

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fact is that nearly any writer would
give anything to write something and to create

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something that is iconic and memorable in
pop culture eighty years after they'd did it

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now in terms of differences with the
other script, and I do think the

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cast was different on the Krypton scenes, but other than that, the what

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is actually broadcasts stuck to the audition
and listening to Joel's presentation, you do

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appreciate that at least is written here, that it really is a preposterous theory

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and why the people of Krypton didn't
listen. I did love his whole speech,

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you know, essentially say you know, oh yeah, well you'll be

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sorry when you're all dead and when
our civilization is dead, and I will

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be like I told you so.
Though that does yield to a bit of

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real honesty and Darres say humanity,
you know, when he gets to that

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point where Laura asked about launching the
spaceship and ask, you know, is

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it going to work? And he's
like, I think so. And ultimately

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they really do have to take a
gambole and hope that maybe maybe there boy

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will survive. Yeah, And it
is really something unique. I think we've

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kind of gotten used to Superman.
Starting with the origin story, that,

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you know, we even get to
the point of can we not start with

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the origin story? But it's something
that you really did not hear in radio,

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where you would have your first episode
and your main character is a baby

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and the actor doesn't appear and you
learn about all the details of his origin,

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so that this was definitely a bit
different for the time. It's also

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really specific about Superman coming down in
Indiana, you know, which is kind

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of amusing since so much of the
series they are totally non specific, you

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know, when Superman's traveling within the
United States as to where actually he is,

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you know, travels to another state, you know, and of course

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Matralpolos is not named as being in
a particular state. Another big difference,

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this one with the broadcast version is
in the broadcast version, the boy actually

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suggests Superman's name for his secret identity, Clark Kent. The audition just has

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him showing up identifying as Clark Kent, but it not actually making any sense

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at all because the ship crashing,
him being adopted and raised by human parents

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is totally left out, so where
the name comes from is not explained.

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The broadcast version has it that the
boy reason that Clark Kent is a normal

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enough name and that was all he
needed. There are a few differences in

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the newspaper office scene, mostly they
are a cosmetic. In the broadcast version,

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McCray is called the Wolf and the
train the flying Height is called the

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Silver Clipper, which sounds more like
a train, and as for the Wolf,

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the radio really went in big for
these sort of melodramatic villain names,

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and so that makes sense rather than
Superman's first foe being McCrae. Now Wolf

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is no Lex Luthor, but at
least he's not just McCray. At the

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end of the audition, Clark Kent
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Flash, which was actually different from
the comics where the newspaper was initially called

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the Daily Star. In the broadcast
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identified as being with the Daily Planet, and that would be the case throughout

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the broadcast run, and actually designating
the planet, which was essentially chosen so

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there would be no conflict with actual
real newspapers and no confusion since there were

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papers that were known as The Star. It actually appeared in Radio February of

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nineteen forty and wouldn't appear until issue
date of April of nineteen forty in the

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comics. However, the way comics
were written, it was probably pretty close

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to simultaneous that they had made the
decision that they were going to go with

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the Daily Planet branding, and it
just became a universal throughout Superman's stories whatever

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medium they were told it. A
more significant change is that Lois's part in

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this story is actually given to a
character who's a one shot named Miss Smith,

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and that does mean that Lois doesn't
appear in the first broadcast episode where

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Superman features as an adult, but
it also means that she's not treated as

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like just a general gopher worker who
will handle human resources task, you know,

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and even in the nineteen thirties,
this would be a really a clerical

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role and not something you would have
a reporter going do. Although it's a

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shame because they do save that line
that Lois has about Clark getting this job

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off the street when there are so
many newspapermen out there who can't find a

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job, which really is a lowest
lane sort of thing to say. All

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right, well that's all for now. If you do have a comment,

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email it to me Adam Adamsweb dot
us and join us back here on Sunday

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when we will start into this new
Superman serial Belt new from nineteen forty three.

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In the meantime, if you do
have a common email it to me

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Adam adamsweb dot us, but from
Boise, Idaho. This is your host,

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Adam graham Son and off