Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer - Pt 04: The Adventures of Superman (June 3, 1940)

“Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer - Pt 04” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 3, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Captain Waters join Professor Peters in the Arctic, searching for the missing explorer Alonzo Craig and the Indian treasure of the Cunaluka. Following a map torn in two and hidden in a ring, they reach a sunken ice temple and hear a strange laughing voice inside. The search turns from mystery to danger as Peters and Waters confront a creature in the ice caves, and Kent reports that a man resembling Craig is calling himself a witch doctor. The installment ends on a cliffhanger, with the group still far from understanding what has happened to Craig.

The Arctic ice fields and the Cunaluka mountains, including a valley of cliffs and a sunken temple of ice

Characters: Clark Kent, Captain Waters, Professor Peters, Alonzo Craig, Ray Martin, Superman

Listen for: The laughing voice in the ice caves and the witch doctor's identity

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.