Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets, a special show coming to you in

celebration of Superman Day.

June 12th is the day selected by DC Comics to celebrate the Man of Steel

and we're marking the occasion by going all the way back to 1940 and the earliest

broadcasts of the radio serial that brought Superman to the airwaves.

Before the movie serials,

before the George Reeves Classic Television show,

even before the landmark animated shorts produced by the Fleischer Studios, Superman first took flight on radio.

Not only was the radio show the first translation of Superman into a medium other than comic books, it also made additions

to the character's mythology that remain key components of Superman stories to this day. The characters of Perry White, the blustery editor of the Daily

Planet who hates being called Chief, and of Jimmy Olson, the Cub reporter who can't help but make that mistake, were both created for the

Superman radio show.

Also invented for the series was Superman's Achilles heel, kryptonite.

The radioactive fragments of Superman's home planet were introduced in the show and later

factored into many long-running story arcs as Superman's enemies tried to acquire the rare rocks so they could do away with

Superman once and for all. One of those arcs was perhaps the most memorable of the series,

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