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THE ORIGINS OF SUPERMAN.....
On the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-L warns that the planet is doomed -- but his plan to build spaceships and evacuate the planet meets with jeers. Jor-L only has time to build a model spacecraft. He and his wife Lara send their infant son, Kal-L, off in the spaceship just before the planet explodes. The child is sent off on a one-way trip to the planet Earth.

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN.....
Was a long running radio serial that originally aired from 1940 to 1951, adapted from the DC Comics character. The serial came to radio as a syndicated show on New York City's WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a fifteen minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949 it ran as a thrice weekly half hour show. The series shifted to ABC Saturday evenings on October 29, 1949, and then returned to afternoons, twice a week on June 5, 1950, continuing on ABC until March 1, 1951. In all, two thousand and sixty eight original episodes of The Adventures of Superman were aired on American radio. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

The Man of Steel first appeared in Action Comics number one in 1938. The following year, the newspaper comic strip began and four audition radio programs were prepared to sell Superman as a radio series. When Superman was first heard on radio less than two years after the comic book appearance, the character took on an added dimension with Bud Collyer in the title role. During World War II and the post war years, the juvenile adventure radio serial, sponsored by Kellogg's Pep, was a huge success, with many listeners following the quest for "truth and justice" in the daily radio broadcasts, the comic book stories and the newspaper comic strip.

Airing in the late afternoon (variously at 5:15pm, 5:30pm and 5:45pm), the radio serial engaged its young after school audience with its exciting and distinctive opening, which changed slightly as the series progressed. Most familiar today is the television opening, which copied the radio opening from 1945 onward (save for "and the American Way" line, which was an even later addition)

Faster than a speeding bullet! more powerful than a locomotive! able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!..... look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!

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