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Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere - Pt 05

The Adventures of Superman · September 4, 1940 · 11 min · 1,726 words

The transcript of “Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere - Pt 05”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast September 4, 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 plane! It's a plane! It's Superman! And now Superman might he visit her from another world and came to earth when the planet Krypton was destroyed by quakes and explosions.

Superman, who can twist steel in his bare hands, bleeped tall buildings of a single bound. bounds. In walks about among human beings, this guy is his mild Clark Kent, news reporter. Searching for a $2 million treasure in gold, it is lame for centuries in the Spanish galleon at the bottom of Octopus Bay, Kent Professor Thorpe and Diver Gleason have descended to the

ocean floor in Thorpe's remarkable bathysphere, a deep sea diving bell. Earlier Kent, as Superman, had defeated several attempts by Piedesco Barra, Carribean desperate oath to seize the bathysphere and get the goal for himself. When we last saw Kent, he and Professor Thorpe were in the bathysphere waiting for Gleason, the professional diver, who had ventured out into the octopus

infested bay. But suddenly the air became hot and foul, and when Professor Thorpe fainted, Kent stepped to the speaking tube to call Captain Maddox on board the Juanita, anchored 300 feet above them. Our story continues today. Kent is still at the tube desperately calling Maddox. Listen. Hello Captain Maddox. Hello, hello. Oh, it's no use. Speaking here, we

of order to. This is a job for Superman. Got to get Thorpe out of here. No time to lose. But if I smash through the side of the back of the sphere, I'll ruin it and doom Gleason the diver. But if I don't, we'll all die here. Even Superman can't live without air.

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