Looking For Kryptonite Part 02: The Adventures of Superman (December 5, 1945)

“Looking For Kryptonite Part 02” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 5, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jimmy Olsen is attacked in the apartment of the dead Sidney, a mysterious fat man who had been an ally of the Atom Man. Clark Kent arrives in time to rescue him from a swarthy dark-skinned intruder. Police take the man to headquarters, where Inspector Henderson and Clark examine a metal coin marked with a crescent and star, and a sheet of paper written in disappearing ink. The Arab is later found dead in his cell, and Clark and Jimmy notice a crescent-and-star brand on his heel. The episode is part two of the Looking for Kryptonite storyline in The Adventures of Superman, first aired December 5, 1945.

Metropolis, in Sidney's apartment and then at Metropolis Police Headquarters

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Inspector Henderson, Sidney, The Arab

Listen for: The discovery of the crescent-and-star brand on the dead Arab's heel

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.