The 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!

This Friday,

This Friday, nearly 80 years after their first appearances in comic books,

Superman and Batman meet together on the big screen for the first time in Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice.

Of course the heroes have appeared together before in comics and in animation, but their first meeting, the first ever team up of the Man of Steel and the Cape Crusader, came on radio,

when Batman and his sidekick Robin made appearances on the adventures of Superman.

Two years after his debut in Action Comics, Superman hit radio in a series that premiered on February 12th 1940. It was a rating success practically

from the moment it began. After airing in syndication for two years, it was

picked up and aired five days a week over the entire mutual network.

The radio series introduced several key characters and elements into the Superman mythology. Cub reporter Jimmy Olson, Blustery Daily Planet editor Perry White,

and Metropolis Police Inspector Henderson all originated on radio.

And Superman first faced kryptonite, a radioactive fragment of

his home planet and his Achilles heel on the air before it ever appeared in the comics.

The radio show put Clark Kent front and center.

He had as much, if not more airtime than Superman.

And the tone of the series was similar to that of the 1950s George Reeves TV show.

It played up Kent's skills as a detective and investigative reporter.

Both Superman and Clark Kent were expertly played on radio by Clayton Bud Collier, who came up with the idea to change his voice as he transformed from the mild-mannered reporter

into the man of steel.

So she talked about a car, eh?

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