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Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere - Pt 08

The Adventures of Superman · September 11, 1940 · 11 min · 2,095 words

The transcript of “Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere - Pt 08”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast September 11, 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 the transcription feature, Superman! The guy! Look, it's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Now Superman, strange visitor from the planet Krypton, who has come to earth, resolved to lend his amazing physical powers to the fight for truth and justice.

Superman, who can bend steel in his bare hands, leap tall buildings at a single bound. You miggles with ordinary men disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for the daily planet newspaper. When Ken accompanied Professor A. B. Thorpe, middle-aged inventor of a new deep-sea diving bell to the Caribbean Sea in search of a sunken Spanish gold treasure, he never anticipated

running into so much buried adventure. Finally, the two million dollar gold hard was brought up from the bottom of the sea, and placed on board Professor Thorpe shipped the Juanita. The first story continues today, it is after midnight, and the Juanita is riding at anchor under a moonless sky.

Two men have rode out from the rocky shore, and at this very moment, a crouched-on deck with sharp steel-bladed knives quest in their hands. One of them is P. Deskobara, a husband who has known about this Spanish goal for a long time and has come to steal it.

The other is a henchman, Carlos, a sinless, shallow, cheek-desk, Barano. As they wait, hiding behind a huge steel diving gun with the gold is stored. Professor Thorpe, unable to sleep due to excitement, approaches the company by Captain Maddox, skipper of the Juanita.

Listen. That's the garden completely that you hadn't seen the gold we brought from that sunken Spanish ship, Captain Maddox. in the excitement that slipped my mind. No, that didn't bother me, Professor. All I was interested in was getting you in the diving bell up from the bottom of that hurricane hit us.

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