BONUS - Super Summer: Superman vs. Kryptonite (Part 5)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
As "Bud Smith," the amnesiac Superman is a home run-crushing, strike-out hurling baseball phenom! But "Big" George Latimer still hunts for the missing Man of Steel and the crew at the Daily Planet is looking for Clark Kent. This epic adventure continues with the next five chapters, originally aired on Mutual between June 11 and June 17, 1947.
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| 0:00.0 | This looks like a job for Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet. |
| 0:25.8 | More powerful than a locomotive. |
| 0:29.2 | Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. |
| 0:33.4 | Look, up in the sky. |
| 0:34.8 | It's a bird. |
| 0:35.7 | It's a plane. |
| 0:36.6 | It's Superman. |
| 0:38.6 | Kellogg's PEP! |
| 0:40.5 | PEP! PEP! |
| 0:44.1 | Kellogg's PEP, the Sunshine Cereal, presents... |
| 0:47.0 | The Adventures of Superman! |
| 0:48.9 | ...the adventure of Superman! Today Superman comes face to face with George Latimer, his arch enemy, and soul possessor of the deadly kryptonite. |
| 1:19.7 | Say, have you got seven or eight or nine of the new series of comic buttons from packages of Kellogg's Papp? |
| 1:25.6 | Or maybe you're even closer to having your complete collection of all 18 comic buttons in the new series. |
| 1:30.3 | Everybody's in on the race to see who can get most of these comic buttons first. And everybody gets a kick out of collecting the characters that are making comic strip history, |
| 1:34.3 | like More Winkle and Daisy, the old plenty and flat top, tiny Tim and a breath of breeze, |
| 1:39.3 | and Superman, each in bright color on a gleaming white enamel button. |
| 1:43.3 | If it's brand new in your collection, |
| 1:45.3 | you pin it with the others on your jacket or your dress or cap. Or if it's a duplicate, you know, |
| 1:50.0 | like one that you already have, why that's even more fun, because then you have the business |
| 1:54.0 | of swapping with your friends. It's like some wonderful game where the fun goes on and on. |
| 2:00.1 | And here's one of the best things |
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