The Super Sleuth Part 06: The Adventures of Superman (July 29, 1946)

“The Super Sleuth Part 06” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 29, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Clark Kent and his friend Bruce Wayne attend a peace rally at Metropolis Stadium, where a masked impostor in a Superman costume is on stage. Herbert Calkins, a Scotland Yard detective who has come to America to prove Clark Kent is Superman, shouts that the figure is a fraud and demands proof. The man in the costume is Wayne, and Kent slips away to take the real Superman's place, flying over the stadium to answer the crowd. Afterward Calkins appears to accept that Kent is not Superman and prepares to leave for England, but Kent is uneasy. The story is part six of the Adventures of Superman serial, broadcast on July 29, 1946.

Metropolis Stadium and later Clark Kent's apartment building in Metropolis

Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Herbert Calkins

Listen for: Calkins's accusation at the rally and Kent's sudden flight as Superman

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.