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The $5 Million Gold Heist - Pt 01

The Adventures of Superman · November 25, 1940 · 11 min · 1,827 words

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Presenting the transcription feature, Superman! Superman! And now Superman, Strings Wizarder! From the planet Krypton, Superman! Champion of the Week and the Oppress, possessed of physical powers far beyond those of mortals, and who walks without among ordinary men, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.

Kenneth Raykar, sandwiched in among a hundred others, disappeared into thin air on a trip between one station and another, That's the problem Superman is now trying to solve. As Clark Kent, he and Lois were assigned to cover for their paper, the arrival of a freight train, bringing with it a specially armored car bearing five million dollars in gold.

Gold being moved from another city to the National Bank in the droplets. Our friends reached the railroad terminal just as the train pulled in, and it was at that moment that, but wait, let's listen.

They're in for Calcutta, they get near the leisure, it's almost by shokum, post-el, leaving on track for more, for more, the other hand, then. Market isn't hospital, it simply couldn't happen. None of those happen, Lois.

Well then, will you please explain how. The Metropolis National Bank has officially on a plated freight car bill. They sandwich the car in among nearly a hundred others. There's an arm crew inside the car, and it feels to me outside.

outside. No, and yet when the train arrives here in Metropolis, the special armored car is missed, banished completely. Along with the crew and five million dollars, Clark, it isn't possible. You did some checking up at Bolton, the last stop the train made. Yeah, I tell it's on the station agent there.

Wanted to get a few details on the story with those two rights, and he told me he checked that car's room when the train made its last stop there. And if we can believe his story, the freight car must have disappeared between Bolton and Metropolis. Come on, I'm a talk of the engineer.

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