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Threat to the Planet Building

The Adventures of Superman · March 1, 1940 · 11 min · 1,839 words

The transcript of “Threat to the Planet Building”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast March 1, 1940. 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 Superman up in the sky. Look, it's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman. And now Superman. Strange and amazing figure from another world who has come to earth as the champion of the week and the oppressed. As our story opens today, Superman and his character of Clark Kent, reporter, is just where we left him. In the laboratory of Dr. Dahlgren bending

over the reviving form of the scientist who has been stunned by the blowing open of his safe, outside a distant clock has just struck 5.30. Inside Kent and the doctor stare at the empty safe, realizing that the steel cylinders necessary to operate the dog or an atomic beam have been stolen, and that the yellow mask can now make good his threat to blow the daily

planet building to fragments on the dot of six. Lois Lane has been sent to bring the police and warn the paper. Sirens wail a squad cars race toward the scene of the explosion. Meanwhile, the yellow mask himself watches grimly from a secret hiding place, waiting for the uproar to die down.

Listen. So the sound of the explosion has brought the police like bees to a honeypot. Anyway, I shall wait until I am ready to leave, and then all of the police in the city will not stop me.

Are both cars waiting? Are ready when you give the word, Chief. Good. Who's this, Michael? Who's that with you? I got a visitor for you, Ching. You let me go. Put me down. That girl. Where did she come from?

She belongs to the fellow from the newspaper. After the explosion, she went for the cops. I seen her coming down the stairs and I thought maybe we'd better hang on to her. Will you beast? Let me go!

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