Speaker 1: Presenting Superman.
Speaker 2: Up in the sky.
Speaker 3: Look, it's a burden, it's a plain.
Speaker 4: It's Superman, Superman, amazing mysterious figure in blue costume and
red cape who has appeared on Earth as the Champion
of the Week and the oppressed. We last saw Superman
streaking through the evening sky toward the laboratory of doctor
Sven Dalgren in an effort to file the plans of
the Yellow Mask.
Speaker 3: It is some time after four on the stroke of six.
Speaker 4: The Daily Planet, its building, its presses, and its staff
will be blown to fragments unless Superman can solve the
plot in the short time that remains. As Superman wings
his way over the dimly glowing city Lois Lane, the
Daily Planet's girl reporter is already at doctor Dhalgren's laboratory,
interviewing the scientist on the loss of his newly invented
atomic beam, which the Yellow Mask has stolen. But even
as the scientist and the girls sit talking, hidden on
guys are watching them, And I've heard voices passed and
repassed on an unseen secret relay.
Speaker 3: Listen, Yes, this is a Yellow.
Speaker 2: Mask, This is Michael, reported from the laboratory. The girl
has arrived and is talking with the doctor. We are
ready when the signal covers, close the sliding doors and
leave the rest to me. Then join us at the airport.
Do you understand, Yeah, I understand. It won't be no
mistake that time. That's good. I have spawned to flow
up the newspaper. As the clock strikes six, yellow mask
does not failed.
Speaker 3: And to my great relief, Miss Lane. After calling to newspaper,
I discovered that this demented individual who had stolen my
atomic beam machine had stolen nothing but a box of
wires and rio stats, utterly useless to him. What do
you mean, Well, the machine cannot operate unless it is
loaded with atomic cylinders, small steel capsules containing the energy
necessary to work the beam. I recalled that I had
placed only two of the cylinders in the machine to
demonstrate it, and both were fired.
Speaker 1: But you have other cylinders, haven't you?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, but they're well protected. Look in there?
Speaker 1: What you see why seems to be a sort of
inner room.
Speaker 3: And what is at the extreme end, let me look
you why.
Speaker 1: It's a safe, a huge safe built into the wall.
Speaker 3: And in that safe are a dozen atomic cylinders and
a duplicate of the stolen machine.
Speaker 1: You had two machines.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, a new one and an old one. That
madman stole the new one. But never mind, keep looking,
miss Lane. What do you see now?
Speaker 1: Why? Why? There are two doors rolling right out of
the wall.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, massive steel doors, miss Lane, which cut off
every part of the laboratory. The pair that you are
looking at cut off the strong room. Now they roll
back again. What made them open? Ah, I did something
you didn't see.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Eh good, that's part of the secret.
Speaker 1: That'sordhlgren. This will certainly make a story. Now tell me
about the machine, the atomic beam. Why do you think
it was stolen?
Speaker 3: Miss Lane? If I were a man gone mad with
lust for power, determined to dominate the entire world, I
could ask for no greater weapon than the Dhlgren atomic Beam.
Speaker 1: Good heavens, do you really mean that I do?
Speaker 3: That is why my secret will never be published unless
I am assured the atomic beam can be used to
benefit humanity and not destroy it.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me how the machine works, doctor Darkin?
Speaker 3: Why? Yes, the Dhlgren atomic beams Lane is based on
the almost limitless power of atomic energy.
Speaker 5: In the first place, what't be getting there now? Concerted
part of town. All right, I think I see a car.
Speaker 3: That's it Lewis's car parked at the curb.
Speaker 5: I'll drop down on the roof, slip downstairs and at
her Dolgren's house.
Speaker 3: Is Clark Kent's reported? Down?
Speaker 5: Down now? Then down below? Wait a minute? What's that
coming through the wall. Nobody else could hear it, but
I can. It's a voice, a voice traveling on a
radio relay.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the Yellow Mask. What now?
Speaker 3: This is Michael's reported from the laboratory.
Speaker 2: Okay, we are almost ready. Remember when I give the
signal close the doors, no more.
Speaker 3: Down the yellow Mask somewhere near here? And Michael? Who's Michael?
And if I have any luck, I may find out
from Dahlgren. Yes, doctor Dahlgren, I'm Clark Kent of the
Daily Planet. Oh yes, he has come in. Mister Kent.
My man must be busy.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 3: You were talking to mister White, my editor, and something
happened to the line. We were cut off. So I
came right down to find out what you wanted to say.
It may be important, I mus Laine.
Speaker 1: Well, mister Starr report, couldn't you find anything to do
but comin hornin.
Speaker 3: On my story. I see your old friend. Sorry, Miss Laine,
this came up just after you left, Doctor Dhargren. The
Daily Planet has received a very dangerous threat from an
unknown source. A threat, mister Kent.
Speaker 1: What kind of a threat an escaped lunatic doctor, someone
who threatens to blow up the entire works at six
o'clock to night.
Speaker 3: Doctor, the man who broke in here and made off
with your invention. You told my editor he said something
about destroying a newspaper. You remember what it was. I
remember quite well, mister Kent. He had picked up the machine,
my new model of the atomic beam, and as he
held me under his gun, he said, first I shall
destroy the building which houses one of your great newspapers.
Speaker 1: Doctor Dog Did he mean the planet?
Speaker 3: Well, my dear miss Lane, I haven't any idea tell
me doctor. Could he make good that threat against the newspaper?
Mister Kent, he could make good that threat against the world,
and we have one hour or less to run him down. Well,
I wouldn't worry, mister Kent, not worry. Fortunately, as I
have already explained to Miss Lane, and as I tried
to tell your editor before we were cut off, the
model which was stolen, will not work.
Speaker 1: Doctor Dahlgren.
Speaker 3: What do you mean just this by a lucky chance
the stolen machine was not loaded with the cylinders necessary
to make it work. Well, then then you mean the
newspaper's safe. It won't be blown up, not by the
Dolgren atomic beam. Oh wait, I will point out what
I mean just a second, doctor Dlgren. I'd like to
ask you a question, certainly, mister Kent, is your name
Michael or is there any one in this house whose
name is Michael? Why? Yes? Why do you ask that?
Speaker 1: Don't you like the name Michael, mister Kent?
Speaker 3: Who is a doctor? Michael? Is the name of my servant? Why,
mister King?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 3: I merely wondered er you were going to show us
your invention, doctor Dargren. Oh, yes, yes, to be sure,
If you'll excuse me for a moment. No, no, no,
stay right where you are. I'll get it out of
the safe and.
Speaker 1: Bring it here. Well, are you are worried about being
blown sky high? Quite late to rest, mister Kent. You
thought the paper would be blown up tonight, didn't you?
You know I did, And yet you take the first
chance you get to run out like a rat and
leave the rest of them. They had to face whatever happens.
Speaker 3: Oh, now look here, mister White sent me out on
this assignment.
Speaker 1: Ah Ben, he didn't have to urge you much.
Speaker 3: I shan't think that about me. Lois? Please? I can
stand freshness and amazing luck and even boasting, but not
coward this.
Speaker 1: Mister Kent, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm telephoning the office?
Speaker 1: Hello, operator.
Speaker 3: Operator?
Speaker 1: Have you forgotten the phones out of order?
Speaker 3: I thought they might have fixed it. They haven't. Well,
that wire, it goes through a content into the next room,
and it's slack loose. It comes a way in my hand.
Look what lois? That wire was cut cut off clean
by someone in this house while doctor Dogren was talking
to mister White, by someone who didn't want Dogren to
reveal any information.
Speaker 1: Well, don't stand there like that. What do you think
it means?
Speaker 3: It means the thief. No, that model won't work. He's
found it out. Oh where is doctor Doggren? What's taking
him so long?
Speaker 1: Can't the doors the doors? Foot doors? What are they doing?
Speaker 3: The doors?
Speaker 1: They needed at the rooms and doctor Doggren's inside love it.
Maybe he did it himself. Doctor does Dogren? Are you
all right, doctor Dolgren.
Speaker 3: Let me get away from that safe.
Speaker 1: Michael, Michael, Oh, can't someone's in there and something's wrong.
Can't do something. Don't just stand there.
Speaker 3: I can't that. There's nothing I can do. Any explosion
inside that room dynamite when I took glycerin Lois.
Speaker 1: Lois, are you all right? I'm all right.
Speaker 3: Just stand Hellis, run down and bring the police, phone
the paper quick.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do.
Speaker 3: I'll stay here. Maybe I can get in there one
I'll run.
Speaker 4: I be back.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for humm.
Speaker 5: I think it's time Superman took a hand. Clark Kent
could never get through those steel doors. I had to
get Lois out first though.
Speaker 3: Now then there they go, almost cruel and springing out
of the side. I'll just grab hold of the edges
and pull them out of the walls, now, doctor doctor Doldron,
he's unconscious.
Speaker 5: When he comes to, he'll see Clark Kent.
Speaker 3: Is that you the safe? Look at the safe and
and the wall. They blew the safe and got out
through a hole in the wall. Doctor Dolgren, Who was it?
Speaker 1: Could you see?
Speaker 3: I don't know. When I came in, they threw a
cloth over my head, Kent. Look, they came back. They
found the machine wouldn't work. The cylinders were in the safe.
Speaker 1: Doctor the safe. It's empty, cried empty. Gentlemen.
Speaker 2: The Dulgrin atomic beam will now be put to work.
Speaker 3: That voice, who is it? Where is it coming from?
It's adictive phone outlet somewhere in the wall. I'll track
it down.
Speaker 2: Save yourself the trouble, mister Kent. We are leaving immediately.
It's half past five. You will remember what happens at six.
The Yellow Mask does not break his words.
Speaker 4: Half an hour ago, thirty flying minutes, while mysterious planes
drown high in the air over the office of the newspaper.
Can Clark Kent or Superman find the Yellow Mask, recover
the Dolgren invention, save the Daily Planet? And meanwhile, what
of Lois Lane? Tune in the next installment and follow
the start. Remember be with us again for the next
thrilling transcribed installment of Superman.
Speaker 1: Open the sky.
Speaker 3: Look, it's a bird, it's a fame, It's Superman.
Speaker 4: Superman is a copyrighted feature of Pipping in Action Comics magazine.