The Baby from Krypton

Boys and girls your attention please Presenting a new exciting radio program featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and incredible personality Faster than an airplane more powerful than a locomotive impervious to bullets And now Superman a A being no larger than an ordinary man, but possessed of powers and abilities never before realized on earth.

Able to leap into the air an eighth of a mile at a single bound, hurdle a twenty-story building with ease, race a high-powered bullet to its target, lift tremendous weights and rent solid steel in its bare hands as though it were paper.

Superman, a strange visitor from a distant planet, champion of the oppressed, physical, extraordinary, who has sworn to devote his existence on earth to helping those in need. As our story begins, we ask you to come with us on a far journey, a journey that takes us millions of miles from the earth, where the planet Krypton burns like a green star in the

endless heavens. Here civilization is far advanced. It has brought forth a race of supermen, men and women like ourselves, but advanced to the absolute peak of human perfection. As we near Krypton, we see high walls and gleaming turrets.

We approach the magnificent Temple of Wisdom, and there in a great hall, Jor-El, Krypton's foremost man of science, is about to address a meeting of the planet's governing council. Attention! Attention gentlemen! Jor-El speaks! Members of the council, I have completed my solar calculations.

And much as I dread uttering these words, I have come to the conclusion Krypton is doomed. Did I hear him right? Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, here you go. These internal quakes we've been experiencing, these volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, gas escaping from giant craters, all point to only one thing gentlemen.