Speaker 1: Presenting Superman.
Speaker 2: Up in the sky. Look, it's a word in lane.
Speaker 3: It's Superman and now Superman. Just a few hours to
go before the crack train of the West Coast Railroad.
The Silver Clipper leaves Denver for Salt Lake City, where
the mysterious Power, through its agent, the Wolf, has sworn
she will never arrive and Superman in his character of
Clark Kent, news reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman was
last seen being dragged down a flight of steel stairs
and thrown into the sound proof room of the Wolf's
hideout near the railroad yard. It is late afternoon, verging
towards sundown in the world above, and still the gangster
Kino works on the unresisting form of Kent, bound and
shackled to the wall before him.
Speaker 1: Hey, listen you, I'm getting tired of this. How about talk?
Speaker 2: I've already told you there's nothing I care to talk about.
Speaker 1: Why Scott, Hey, okay, we'll see how long you last
at this offering.
Speaker 2: The door you know?
Speaker 1: Okay, here comes to boss. Wait do you see what happens? Now?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: You know what? Luck? No luck at all? So far.
He ain't doing much talking. He's tough, voice still I
was just gonna let it go. You know, there's no
more time. I didn't want to know where he got
his information, But it won't matter, that's what you think. Well,
that's what I know, my young friend. What do you
mean you'd like me to talk? Huh? Very well, I
don't mind in the least in a few hours time,
mister Clark Kent, the Silver Clipper will leave Denver for
Salt Lake. You recall what happened to the locomotive and
tender last night.
Speaker 2: Don't boast Wulf, you didn't have anything to do with that.
They'll find that.
Speaker 1: Engine, possibly, but they haven't found it yet. And let
me tell you this, mister Kent, they won't find the
a clipper either. Cano we're leaving at once. Well, what
about this guy? He'll stay where he is permanently. What
are you going to do, Wolf, Nothing whatever. We shall
leave you just where you are for all time, or
until someone comes down here and finds you, which may
take a month or two. He know, the persuader oh
out like a light. And when he comes to, when
he comes to, we'll be twenty miles on our way
to San Joaquin. Wait, boss, he's plenty chout what if
he breaks out, breaks out, don't be silly. You know
the walls are solid sheet steel three inches thick, then
five inches of concrete, then more steel. If he breaks
out of that, humm, I'll put him in the circus. Okay, reckon,
he's safe. Come keno, goodbye, mister Clark Kent. You'll forgive
me if I do not say I hope we meet again.
Speaker 2: But we will meet again, and very soon.
Speaker 4: And thanks for telling me where on the road to
San boakin Eh. And I'll give you a little while
to get clear of town and then I'll be seeing
you Wolf.
Speaker 2: And Gards.
Speaker 4: Eh. It's a good thing for you. I wasn't feeling playful,
all right.
Speaker 1: You know from now on things will move. Jump in Porus,
take the lower road to the river and then up
toward the pass.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 1: Look, you know the sun's just going down over the
railroad yards.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: Course, here she is the silver Clipper, justin from Shy.
She'll lay over a while and then hit the line
for lake and we'll be ready and waiting. Let's go
twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: I don't have to give me time enough to get
out of earshot. What was that he said about sheet steel?
Three inches thick.
Speaker 1: You're a liar, wont two and a half of the most.
Look at those walls bends.
Speaker 4: Well you might have kept Clark Kent in a vault
like this, but not Superman. There goes the concrete and
still more steel. I'll just put my foot through that.
Speaker 1: And that's that.
Speaker 4: Ah, the stairs. I won't go out in the street
tract too much attention. Just up to the roof, easy, takeoff?
Speaker 2: What's this? A skylight and padlocked?
Speaker 1: Here goes.
Speaker 2: Out into the night in the fresh air. One jump
and we're up up hand away now they all I
have to do is follow his car on the San
Joaquin Road.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, and a fellow called the Wolf is going
to put Clark Kent in the circus.
Speaker 1: Here I come, Wolf. Oh okay, hey, watch where you're going?
Will your boys take it easy? Keno. In a moment,
we'll be at the crossing of the San Joaquin River.
Do you know where that runs? Sure, down through Schooner
Canyon Lake to the dam at walk you And do
you know how Schooner Canyon got its name? Okay? Oh,
it's interesting. You know. The canyon took its name from
an old mining camp. Now at the bottom of the lake.
I still don't see it with a roaring camp Quino.
Until they built the dam and turned the canyon into
a reservoir, it must have been tough to get to
down in a hole like that. They had a railroad, Quino.
They broke a tunnel through the canyon wall, laid the
tracks through the tunnel and down the canyon wall to
the camp. Yeah, now you're beginning to understand exactly, Keno.
The camp is under a thousand feet of water, but
the branch line tracks still lead to the water's edge
through the tunnel, down the wall. Now listen, you don't
think they could wear What was that? I didn't hear nothing.
It sounded like a rushing of wind or wings high
over our heads, chicken hawk at night. Well, I don't
hear it now, whatever it was? Hey, what about the canyon? Well, Keno,
that's where that spare engine went last night, into the lake,
Right into it, Keno. It left the main lion after
my men had attended to the switch shut down. The
grade roared into the tunnel and disappeared forever in the
waters of Schooner Canyon Lake. Couldn't they start?
Speaker 4: No time?
Speaker 1: And the rails of the branch line were thick with grease.
Oh you can't do it again, it's wholesale. mIRC what
of it? Not losing your nerve? Are you? Kino?
Speaker 2: Look we're here.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, naturally, naturally we're on the back road above
the old junction. Come along, you know where we're going
down the tunnel just a few yards ahead. I'll show
you what's going to happen. What's the matter? Hey? What's
that guy doing over there? One of my workmen? I
suppose I have several. I don't see him. He dodged
off again. Listen now, I don't like this. Someone sure
to catch her? Who there'll be a fool? You know.
The only outsiders are the two members of the train
crew on the engine. They jumped off last night, just
in time. What the engineer? Well, where is he? He'll
never jump again, nor we'll fire. Well where are they?
Up on the rocks above the tunnel, shackled down? Later
they'll be found lying dead beside the tracks. Sensation, Keino,
imagine the mystery. The terror train crew dead on the tracks,
no sign of an accident, no sign of the train.
Speaker 2: Oh there he is again.
Speaker 1: Look look he quiet? Will you? What are you talking
about I've seen it, a long red cape. He was
just flying. You know, you're out of your head to
the conductor, that's what the conductor saw, cleaning the line
for the continent. The conductor was seeing things, and so
are you. You know, Come along, come on, here's the tunnel.
I I don't want to go in there. Oh yes,
you do.
Speaker 2: You know I want you to.
Speaker 1: It's not far, but I want you to see what
happens to trains.
Speaker 2: And two people. People. What do you mean.
Speaker 1: You're a weak you know you see things in the dark.
You might be tended to forget who you're working for. No,
no definite conduct be for Well, we'll just make sure
of that. Keep going, you know, I tell you to stop.
Speaker 2: The devil, the cold and human devil. He's given himself away.
Speaker 4: This time I'll find those two trimming there, just the
it and we need where are they?
Speaker 2: Quick? Above the tunnel A good thing I can see
in the dark and through rocks. Not there.
Speaker 4: They are shame down to die, But they won't die,
not this time. There will be the witnesses that hang
you will It's all right, it's all right. I won't
hurt you. Gotta break those chains.
Speaker 2: Wanted to reach arm I'll find a ranch house and
drop them at the door. They wonder what's happened.
Speaker 4: I think they crawled there and then back to get
the police up up.
Speaker 2: There, you know at the.
Speaker 1: End of the tunnel. Look down the canyon. See it
must be a thousand feet across, and would you like
to know how deep? Three hundred feet down to water
and a thousand feet more after that the lake of
Schooner Canyon? What's the time? The flesh a light seven
fifteen seventeen Kino the Silver Clipper is twenty minutes out
of Denver.
Speaker 3: Twenty minutes out of Denver, roaring up the Rockies to
the crossing of San Joaquin. The crack streamliner of the
West Coast Railroad rushes through the dark at eighty miles
an hour, destined for a watery grave at the bottom
of Schooner Canyon Lake. Meanwhile, a strange figure hurtles through
space back the way he came.
Speaker 1: But will he be in time?
Speaker 3: Can he drop the injured men, warn the authorities, and
get back to save the train without revealing who he is? Thrills, suspense, climax.
Tune in and follow the story of Superman be with
us again for the next thrilling installment of Superman.
Speaker 2: Mhm up in the sky Loop. It's a bird, it's
a plane, It's Superman.
Speaker 3: Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics magazine.