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The Adventures of Superman · September 13, 1940 · 12 min · 2,078 words
The transcript of “Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere - Pt 09”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast September 13, 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! Look, it's a plane! It's a plane! It's Superman! The now-Superman, strange visitor from another world who has come to earth resolved to dedicate his amazing physical powers to the never-ending fight for truth and justice.
Superman, who can leap tall buildings at a single bound, racist-beating bullet to its target. And who mingles with ordinary men, disguise as Clark Kent. Kent, Miles Manard, newspaper reporter. Kent had accompanied Professor A. B. Thorpe and founder of a new deep sea diving bell on a voyage to the Caribbean Sea in search of a fabulous sunken Spanish gold treasure.
When he failed to communicate with his paper, The Daily Planet, editor Perry White became worried and since Bill Wentworth, another reporter down by chartered plane to investigate. Hidden aboard the plane was Jimmy Olsen, Daily Planet copy boy and friend of Clark Kent.
In Manau, the port from which Professor Thorpe shipped The one he had sailed, Bill Wentworth and Jimmy tried to hire a boat to search for the missing one he had. By a strange twist of fate, they were led to Pete Escobar, a half-breed, who had been the cause of all the one he had trouble.
Jimmy let slip why they wanted a boat, and Escobar refused to rent them his. Before leaving Escobar's hangout a back room at the Paradise Cafe, Jimmy found an old Spanish coin on the floor. On the street he and Bill Wentworth examined it, were convinced it was part of the Professor's sunken goal treasure.
They were about to return to question F. Cabar. When two men came out of the cafe and started after them, in the meantime, the warmita, leaking and battered from the hurricane is slowly making her way towards Manau.
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