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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

BONUS - Superman Summer: The Atom Man (Part 3)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The Atom Man is in Metropolis! The Nazi agent with kryptonite in his veins gets a job at the Daily Planet as reporter "Henry Miller," and the Man of Steel is about to meet his greatest and deadliest enemy. Superman and the Atom Man have their first titanic battle as this epic story continues in these chapters that originally aired on Mutual between October 22 and November 2, 1945.

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0:00.0

This looks like a job for Superman. Kellogg's PEP, the Super Delicious

0:26.7

Serial presents the adventures of Superman.

0:30.6

Faster than a speeding bullet.

0:32.7

More powerful than a locomotive.

0:36.4

Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound.

0:40.2

Look, up in the sky.

0:41.8

It's a bird. It's a plane.

0:43.5

It's Superman.

0:46.9

In a secret cave in the black forest of Germany, where several former Nazi leaders were hiding,

0:51.8

a brilliant but unscrupulous Nazi scientist named Dutufel injected a solution of pure kryptonite into the veins of a young German named

0:58.6

milk.

0:59.6

Cryptonite, which is Superman's mortal enemy, is the most radioactive element in the world,

1:03.8

Teufel said, and he promised that when young milk awoke, he would be an atomic monster,

1:08.5

generating such tremendous power and energy within his body

1:11.3

that Superman and perhaps the entire world must acknowledge him as their master or be destroyed.

1:18.1

For hours the youth lay in a coma.

1:20.0

Finally, unable to detect a heartbeat, General Bromberg, leader of the Nazis,

1:24.0

ignored Teufels' frantic protests and ordered a grave to be dug.

1:44.5

But as we continue now in the musty dimly lit cave, Teufel suddenly cries out. Rape, General, look. Look at what? Young Milch. See his chest moves. He's waving. Oh, no, better it cannot be. It is, see for yourself. He braids, I tell you. And look, the color comes back to his cheeks.

1:50.6

Yeah, it is true, Turkle. But how can this be? His heart had stopped. It had not really stopped.

1:57.1

But without a stethoscope, it could not be hurt. See all of you, my atom man lives. Young milk lives.

2:00.9

And now it is the end of Superman and of all who dared to defy their teufel and the master German race ha ha ha ha he speaks come closer be quiet

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