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Presenting Superman.
Up in the sky.
Look.
It's a bird.
It's a plane.
It's Superman.
And now Superman.
Eight wonder of the modern world.
Visitor from a distant planet whose strength knows no limits.
Whose endurance is beyond anything humanity has ever known.
We have seen how the child of Laurel and Lara was placed in the rocket ship and set on his way to work.
During the long journey of the rocket ship to the earth, the child has become a man.
The rocket landed in a desert.
Superman stepped forth full-grown to explore this strange new world in which he found himself.
As our story continues, we find him hovering with the curious power above a quiet highway in Indiana.
The trolley car is just pulling up the hill.
And the Superman wheels and turns in curious flight unseen below.
A man and a boy come out of the shed that serves as waiting room.
Morning, Professor.
Good morning.
Going into town.
Yes, that's right, John.
Taking Jimmy to the fair.
That's a great show, all right.
Well, I reckon you're my only passengers.
Make yourselves at home.
I'm going to get me a drink of wine.
All right.
Well, I'm dead.
We've got the trolley all to ourselves.
Yeah, regular private car.
Where the motormen go?
And just over to the spring for a drink.
It's money, huh, David?
You better hurry or we'll be late.
We can't start without the motormen.
But we are starting.
Look, Dad.
The doors have closed.
We're moving.
Yes, what happened?
Dad.
I want to get out.
The brakes.
Something happened to the brakes.
Let's get out quick.
Open the doors.
Uh, jammed.
That tight shut.
Dad, we're going faster and faster.
We're going downhill.
Dad, what are we going to do?
Jimmy, come here.
The window.
Out the window, Dad.
Get it open, smash it.
Wait.
Yes, Dad.
No, no, no, no, it's too late.
Going too fast.
We've got to, Dad.
Look.
There ahead.
There's a tree.
A tree.
A tree's all right in the tracks.
Look.
Look.
There in the sky.
It's a man.
Why, he's flying.
It can't be.
It's not possible.
We're going on the road, Dad.
Wait.
Have all of me.
Oh, put me down.
Let me go.
Stop it.
One under each arm.
Up through the top.
Oh, gone.
We're going to crash.
Well, we just got out of that in time.
Fully cars are wrecked.
Smashed into a million pieces.
Where are you going?
What are you doing to us?
What's happening?
Put us down.
Don't be frightened.
You're all right.
We're in a hurry.
Pulling off that roof was the only way.
Now we're going down again.
Down.
Down.
Down.
There you are.
Safe and sound in the field.
Well, I don't know what to say.
But all right, Professor.
Getting you in the boy out of that car was nothing.
I can't believe it.
Who are you anyway?
Where do you come from?
I have no name.
I come from a world that no longer exists.
Here in this world of yours,
men would call me a Superman.
It's a dream.
A wild impossible dream.
But dad, it happened.
We saw it.
He flew down because of the result.
And out of the car, that's all.
Nothing so strange about that.
And you saved our lives.
Jimmy's in line.
I don't understand even now.
But I'm grateful.
Are you, Professor?
Where do you doubt it?
Would you do something to prove it?
Would we?
Anything at all.
And make me a promise.
Promise that you'll say nothing at all about what's happened.
What?
Don't you want people to know?
Not just yet.
I want no one to know.
Except those I help.
Will you promise?
If you wish.
I do.
Believe me.
Then you have our word.
Is that all?
No.
You've given me your promise.
Now I want your advice.
You want advice from us?
You know this world.
I am a stranger.
You know the people in it.
I have still to find them out.
You want to meet men?
Is that it?
Not meet them, Professor.
Observe them.
Study them.
See them at their best and their worst.
Know which to help and when help is needed.
If you can tell me that.
Dan.
Can we help him?
Well, I think so, Jimmy.
If that's what he wants.
It would mean a great deal to me.
Well, my friend.
If we can call you that.
I hope we can.
My first friends on this earth.
Jummingle with people.
To see men at the highest and the lowest.
If that's what you want.
And let me think.
How about a newspaper?
A great Metropolitan Daily.
A newspaper.
A newspaper.
Where's join their staff?
Be a reporter.
Oh, but you can't do it in those clothes.
Not that blue costume with the cloak and shield on your breast.
She couldn't.
Jimmy.
These are the cloak and the shield of Superman.
If I become his other man.
I shall dress as other men.
Well, you will have to assume some kind of a name.
What do they call you?
I have a name.
Well, how about Clark Kent?
That's our store, right?
Yes.
Why not?
It's usual enough.
We won't attract attention.
Clark Kent.
Yes.
And about joining a newspaper.
That should give me an opportunity to learn the troubles of men.
To know whom to help.
And when help is needed?
I'll do it.
Many thanks to both of you for your advice.
Well, no thanks, and necessary.
If there were only something more.
Just this.
Remember your promise.
Never to reveal my identity.
And now.
Goodbye.
I've stayed too long, and I'm off.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
They're right.
Superman must become a reporter.
A reporter by the name of Clark Kent.
Clark Kent.
I'll do it.
Ready, roll.
Wait.
Listen, Chief.
You better get somebody in that railroad story right away.
Anything break?
What's that?
I don't know where your dope came from.
But it sure was right.
Where are you now?
At the art dot of town.
If I were you.
I'd have somebody switch the man they call the wolf.
The wolf.
That's what I do, Chief.
Watch him.
Train him.
Follow him every minute.
He's at the bottom, and this is yours, you're born.
Hey, I'm going to be in someone's coming.
Excuse me, Mr. White.
Your men still waiting.
Watch him.
Oh, the one who wants a job?
Well, let them wait.
Who have we got?
That's free.
Most Grayson's down in Virginia.
Most of the day men are full up.
I knew it.
I found it's always the way.
Something breaks and nobody to handle it.
What is it, Mr. White?
Railroads, sabotage.
I didn't believe it.
But there may be something in it after all.
If there is.
Yes, sir.
If there is, Miss Smith, it'll be the biggest story since Lindbergh.
And me short-handed.
Oh, what's the use?
Yes, sir.
About that man.
Oh, send him in.
Send him in.
Yes, sir.
Come in, Mr. Ken.
Mr. White, I'll see you now.
You want to see me?
Close that door.
My name is Kent.
Clark Kent.
What's going to do for you, Mr. Kent?
Well, Mr. White, you can give me work, I hope.
Work?
On the paper?
Yes, sir.
I'd like to be a reporter.
Oh, you'd like to be a reporter.
What papers have you worked on?
Well, none, sir.
Oh, you haven't.
But you think it'd be a waste.
Well, I'm afraid I can't use you, Kent.
You mean you haven't any openings?
Not for green horns.
I'm sorry if I'm blunt.
But, Mr. White, even if I am a green horn,
suppose I brought you a good story.
And where would you get it?
I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me, Mr. Ken.
I'm really good story.
Such as...
Such as the complete inside.
The man called the wolf and the western railroads.
What's that?
You heard me.
Do you want that story?
Do I want it?
Well, I should say I do.
Look here.
I think I could get it for you, Mr. White.
What do you know about the wolf?
A little bit.
Where did you overhear his name?
The connection with railroads, Mr. White.
Oh, stop beating around the bush.
I only heard the beginning of that myself yesterday morning.
Not a paper in the company's carried a line.
And yet...
Yet I come in here and talk about it.
I think I could do something with it, Mr. White.
Now, look here, Kent.
Mysterious secret messages have threatened to tie up
every railroad in the country.
Begin with the western.
For a while, the road paid no attention.
And then the crack fire on the P&R went off a bridge.
Yes, I read about that.
And, naturally.
But you didn't read about the warnings because they weren't printed.
Were printed?
No, and they won't be.
Not until we've checked all the angles.
And then this man, the wolf.
Oh, yes, yes, the wolf.
Now, where do you come in?
How did you get to know the wolf?
Excuse me.
Say your own white.
My friend.
Tomorrow night, the silver flipper leaves Denver for the west.
It will not arrive in Salt Lake City.
Hey, what's that?
Who's this?
I have been called.
The wolf.
Goodbye.
Hey, come back here.
Come back here.
Wait, wait.
Yes, Mr. White?
Where did that call come from?
I'm sorry, sir.
The part you've been looking at.
Not say your part, sir.
But if that call did come from the wolf,
I should be inclined to believe it.
Huh?
How do you know who that was?
If I were you, I'd warn the officials in charge of the silver flipper.
Look here.
You wouldn't hear that phone.
What is this?
How do you know who called me?
As I was saying, Mr. White.
Suppose I brought you a good story.
A story of the silver flipper and the wolf.
I take chances, Kent.
I'm going to take a chance on you.
Thank you, Mr. White.
It's 2,000 miles.
You'll have to help a plane.
I'll get there, Mr. White, in spite of the weather.
Oh, the horrid day.
I haven't noticed the weather.
Well, get to the airport anyway.
You're at Mr. White.
Miss Smith?
This is Clark Kent.
You're temporarily attached to our staff.
You'll know, I said, temporarily.
Yes, sir.
Kent leaves to the west for the first plane.
Get him tickets in the $200 advance.
Mr. White, all planes are ground.
That's all right, sir.
I'll get there.
And take him outside.
Show him what he needs to know.
Mr. White, I'd like to thank you.
Oh, let it go, Kent.
Let it go.
You get the story and you get a job.
You're either clairvoyant or the luckiest guests are alive.
Either way, I can use you.
But if you miss out, well...
This way, Mr. Kent.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Nice of you to show me around.
Pretty lucky, I'll say.
100 good newspapers have been walking the streets
and you step right into a job.
I say I am lucky.
You wait in here.
The Andy Room, the cashier's office.
Well, I really don't need an advance.
Playboy and disguise, eh?
Wait here.
What a rotten night.
Don't fall out that window.
What's 20 stories down?
Beautiful view, even on the fog.
You wait right here like I get your money.
And I'll introduce you to a few real newspapers, then.
Plains grounded.
2,000 miles to go.
Sorry, Miss Smith.
I'm afraid I can't wait.
Clark Kent may need a plane, but Superman doesn't.
Up with the window.
And out.
I don't know why I didn't keep you waiting to...
What?
What?
What is it?
Smith?
What's wrong?
Did he go out that Clark Kent?
Nobody went through the city room.
No.
Didn't go out?
Well, I let you right here.
There was a window.
Oh, the open window.
We went through it and it's 20 stories down.
We went out when we knew.
Out the open window, 20 stories above the ground.
In the wink of a night, Clark Kent,
coming to the border for the daily planet,
becomes Superman.
Eagle of the sky, winging his way west over city and plane,
river and mountain through the storm swept night.
But will he be in time?
Can he checkmate the strange figure called the wolf?
Discover the plot.
Save the silver clipper.
Roaring toward Denver at 90 miles an hour.
And remember,
don't miss the next installment of Superman.
It's a plane!
It's Superman!
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