Welcome to Down These Mean Streets, bringing you the best of detectives from the Golden Age of radio. Welcome to a special bonus episode of down these mean streets. Thanks for joining us away from our usual time. Today we're

celebrating the return of Superman to the big screen in Man of Steel and we'll be

listening to an episode from the long-running Superman radio series.

Radio played an important part in the character's early success.

He debuted in action comics in 1938 and arrived on radio two years later.

In fact, much of Superman's mythology grew out of the radio series.

Cub reporter Jimmy Olson was a character created for radio, along with Perry White and Inspector Henderson of the Metropolis Police Department, all of these characters later found their way into the comics.

Superman first met Batman and Robin on the air, and he had his first encounter with his Achilles heel,

kryptonite, not on the pages of the comics, but on radio.

The show is fondly remembered today as a series with a strong social consciousness.

Superman fought racial intolerance and bigotry as often as he battled mad scientists and mob bosses.

In one famous storyline, Superman took on the Clan of the Firey Cross, a thinly veiled

substitute for the Ku Klux Klan.

The episodes exposed clan rituals and code words, and they served to hurt clan recruiting and diminished the racist

organization's mystique. But even as we celebrate Superman we don't want to move

too far away from our mission statement and that's why the show we're about to listen to prominently features a supporting player

in the Superman Universe, Private Detective Candy Myers.

Played by a number of actors on radio, Myers was often called by Clark Kent or others on the staff of the Daily Planet when they needed extra help with an investigation.

Myers featured prominently in several story arcs, including Superman's famous battle to the death

against the Nazi engineered kryptonite powered Adam Man.

And in the story we'll hear today, Kandy is called by Clark Kent when Kent's Superman costume is

stolen from his apartment. So let's listen now to that show, Dead Men Tell No

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