Nita The Leopard Woman Part 10: The Adventures of Superman (February 2, 1942)

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“Nita The Leopard Woman Part 10” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 2, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Lois Lane pursue a lead on the Society of the Leopard, an oriental spy ring, after a classified advertisement for a leopard skin catches Kent's attention. Their visit to the advertiser, a man named Brower, ends with the mysterious leopard woman locking them in a basement cell. Kent escapes using his superhuman abilities, sending Lois off to alert Major Campbell of the Secret Service. Meanwhile, as Superman, he races out over the fog-bound ocean to warn an oil tanker of an enemy submarine. This part of The Adventures of Superman is a 1942 radio serial episode, broadcast on February 2 of that year, and it is the tenth part of the Leopard Woman story. The episode ends with police surrounding the spy headquarters on Front Street.

Foggy ocean waters near a tanker route, a basement cell and a waterfront house on Front Street in a city, and the Secret Service office.

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Lois Lane, Captain Henson, Major Campbell, Brower, The leopard woman, Bill

Listen for: Listen for Superman rescuing the tanker from the submarine and the police gathering outside the spy headquarters on Front Street.

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.