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The Tin Men Part 04

The Adventures of Superman · January 7, 1943 · 14 min · 2,452 words

The transcript of “The Tin Men Part 04”, an episode of The Adventures of Superman first broadcast January 7, 1943. 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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Faster than a speeding bullet! More carholes and a walker-man is... Able to leave poor buildings at a single ground! Yes, it's Superman! Strange visitor from another world who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

Superman, who can change the cause of mighty rivers, bend the steel in his bare hands, and who disguise as poor Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.

But before we join Superman, here is an important message. They gang, here's the story for you that's so thrilling, I'll bet you'll be telling all your friends about it. It's about one of the adventures of one of the smallest Marines in the service.

They call him half-pine in the Marines. You see half-pine is only five feet seven inches tall, and he weighs about 150 pounds. But fellas, it isn't size that counts in his man's army, it's strength.

This half-paint was strong as a bear cat, and in A1 conditions, one rainy day in the jungles of Guadalcanal, he volunteered for patrol duty to catch some jets, and he put him in charge of the group.

It was raining cats and dogs that morning. Okay, fellas, you check your equipment? All right, now listen, three jets are reported within snipe and range, we've got to go and get them. Come on, let's go.

Hey, hey, look over here. Here. Footprint. The front of you. Looks like about eight feet. Back there in that villager on that. Why is there here? Now let's handball around the village and find out where those jabs are and let them have it.

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