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. And the Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets where today were bound for metropolis for the radio

adventures of Superman. The man of steel flew on to the airwaves in his own show in

1940 and for much of the decade

listeners could hear their hero and serialized exploits that played out each

weekday. But despite being based on the adventures of a man who could leap tall buildings in a single bound,

most of Superman's radio stories were very down to earth.

Superman's most frequent radio foes were mobsters, corrupt

politicos, enemy spies, and racist and xenophobic hate mongers. Of course there were detours to other planets and

undersea kingdoms but most of the bad guys faced on Superman wouldn't have been

out of place on the

even kryptonite, Superman's Achilles heel

was often exploited not by mad scientists,

but by gangsters who happened to get their hands

on a fragment of the green glowing rock.

For every titanic battle with a Nazi-created kryptonite-fueled atomic man, there were

two or three stories of Superman thwarting a confidence ring, or standing

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