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The Adventures of Superman · January 9, 1942 · 11 min · 1,961 words
The transcript of “The Mechanical Man Part 10”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast January 9, 1942. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Adventures of Superman plays The Adventures of Superman free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Presenting the transcription feature, Superman. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman. Yes, it's Superman. Strange visitor from the planet Krypton, who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Superman, who can leap tall buildings of a single bound, race a feeding bullet to its targets, then steal in its bare hands. And who disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth and justice.
But before we joined Superman, listen. And now to our story. When we last saw our clock in, he had dropped his report as disguise, and their Superman was flying to the bottle of shipyard at Haynes River.
There, loaded with deadly incendiary bombs, is a newly constructed mechanical man released by Max Heller, head of a foreign espionage ring. Already the steel monster towering ten feet high and impervious to bullets crashed through the yard's iron gate, and is slowly approaching the water's edge, where 12 naval vessels ready to launch, are resting in their inflammable wooden cradles.
Suddenly a tongue of orange flame leaked from a pocket in the monster's chest as one of the time bombs explodes. Then another, and another, liquid fire spills from the steel pocket in a roaring cascade.
Readily it licks at the dry wood, spreading like molten lead, white hot and hissing. Suddenly a strange rush of wind clears that thick billering smoke above the roaring blaze, and Superman, red coat streaming, drops from the sky like a plummet and lands at the water dead into the very heart of the blinding inferno
I had a feeling I'd be too late this isn't any ordinary fire that stops spread fast there's only one thing to do launch those destroyers if I can get them out into the water I may save them here goes sealed in some snipe by an impenetrable wall of flames superman single handed sends the completed chips down the waves one after the other
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