Crooked Oil Association Part 07: The Adventures of Superman (October 20, 1941)

“Crooked Oil Association Part 07” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 20, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and young Jimmy Olsen ride toward the Comanche reservation to persuade the chief that his late son Comanche Joe gave the ranch to Tumbleweed, who has been arrested for fraud by local banker Abner Chaney. Ambushed on the trail by Dan Larson and another man, Jimmy is wounded in the shoulder. Back at the ranch Kent removes the bullet and realizes its markings could tie the gun to Comanche Joe's killing. Overhearing Chaney and Larson's conversation, he learns they knew of the death early and planned to dispose of Tumbleweed. The story stops as Larson and Chaney quarrel over the plan.

Lost Valley and the nearby Comanche Indian Reservation

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Tumbleweed, Abner Chaney, Dan Larson, Comanche Joe, Slim

Listen for: Kent's explanation of ballistics and the bullet markings, and Chaney's threat to Larson near the quicksand pit

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.