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Clark Kent-Captured by the Wolf

The Adventures of Superman · February 19, 1940 · 12 min · 2,132 words

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Presenting Superman up in the sky. Look, it's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman. And now, Superman. When we last left Superman, he had arrived in Denver as Clark Kent News Reporter to investigate a strange and deadly plot against the railroads of the West.

He had been able to prevent the Continental Limited from being swept into a canyon by a rock slide. But now the unknown force is directed against the silver clipper. crack train of the West Coast Railway.

Mysterious messages have warned that the clipper, due to leave Denver at sundown, will never arrive in Salt Lake City. Morning newspapers have carried Kent's story of the rock slide. And while railroad officials and government men search desperately for clues, Kent himself walks riskily toward the great central station for a conference with the division superintendent.

But meanwhile, the plot moves on in a secret hiding place overlooking the railroad yard. The man called the wolf talks with his subordinate, Keynote. Listen. So very fine. At last the unbelieving fools begin to take me seriously. You have read the stories, Keynote? I read them. Well, why so sudden? Well, I don't understand it. I tell you

that track was blocked for a hundred feet, and yet five minutes later the Continental went right on through. Next time, my friend, pleased to observe more accurately. Obviously, the track was not blocked for a hundred feet. It was not blocked at all.

But I tell you it was. You should join forces with a conductor of the train. He swears and a tremendous figure in blue tights and a red cape appeared from nowhere. Replace the missing rails, cleared away twenty tons of rock and made a safe passage for the train, all in matter of me. Oh yes, yes, and he is now confined to the city hospital, that conductor, for

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