North Star Mining Company: The Adventures of Superman (March 8, 1940)

“North Star Mining Company” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 8, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent interviews June Anderson, a former office secretary who found proof that the North Star Mining Company's officers, Bartley Pemberton and Joseph Deneen, were selling stock in a mine with no gold in it. After she confronts them, the two men attack her, and she hides the incriminating papers aboard a freight steamer with her brother. Kent follows the case to the newspaper office, where a visitor posing as Dr. Ambrose asks him questions. The episode is part of The Adventures of Superman and aired on March 8, 1940.

A city hospital, a parking lot, the offices of the Daily Planet newspaper, and a freight steamer called the Madison sailing south toward Charleston.

Characters: Clark Kent, June Anderson, Bartley Pemberton, Joseph Deneen, Mr. White, Dr. Ambrose

Listen for: The moment June Anderson describes the old doctor tapping his finger and biting his lips, which leads Clark Kent to suspect the visitor is Pemberton in disguise.

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.