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b'Adventures of Superman \\xe2 1938-1951
Cooked Oil Association (Episodes 1,2,3,4, - Complete)

This juvenile adventure series was first broadcast on Mutual in 1940 with Clayton (Bud) Collyer starring as Superman/Clark Kent. It first began as a fifteen-minute show but later, in 1949, it moved to ABC as a thirty-minute Saturday show with Michael Fitzmaurice as Superman. At the end of its thirteen-year run it had totalled over 1600 episodes. The opening for the show was one of radio\\xe2s best, setting the stage for those flights into fantasy with a cascade of voices, narration and sound effects. \\xe2Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!\\xe2 \\xe2Look! Up in the sky!\\xe2 \\xe2It\\xe2s a bird!\\xe2 \\xe2It\\xe2s a plane!\\xe2 \\xe2It\\xe2s Superman!
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