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Happyland Amusement Park - Pt 01

The Adventures of Superman · July 8, 1940 · 10 min · 1,902 words

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Presenting the transcription feature, Superman! The guy! Look, it's a guy! It's a plane! It's Superman! Oh, Superman! Courageous visitor from the planet Krypton, who has come to Earth, resolved to dedicate his life to the fight for truth and justice.

Superman, who can then steal in his bare hands, graces feeding bullets to a target, and to mingles with ordinary men disguised as Clark Kent, a mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper. As our story opens today, we find Clark Kent and Lois Lane, the daily planet star woman reporter, on their way to cover the opening day celebration of the Happy Land Amusement

Park, a gay, newly constructed play land on the outskirts of Metropolis. With Clark Kent, accustomed to exciting adventures, it seems like a mild assignment. But Lois Lane has more than just a casual interest in Happy Land Amusement Park.

She explains her interest to Kent as they drive along. I want to give Happy Land all the publicity we can, Mr. Kent. Why you'd have to go to every person in the trouble, so what a visit to New Amusement Park.

You're having a financial interest in it, have you, Miss Lane? No, but I have a personal interest in Nancy Bordeaux. Nancy Bordeaux? Who's she? She owns Happy Land. I've known her a great many years, and I've moved to have the nurse to help her.

Huh? Only a youngster. Just turned 19, and she needs help badly. Don't you think running an amusement park is rather a big order for a 19-year-old girl? I'm a 19 year old girl who is a very big order.

That's why I want to help her as much as I can. You see, her father built Happy Land. His dream of lifetime known as Big Amusement Park. Dream, unfortunately, that never became a reality. Hi, what do you mean?

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