#superman radio show

[slightly-depressed-sloth]

Man who is secretly an alien but also the worst liar on earth

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The 40’s superman radio show honestly has so many jokes that still hold up, this is more or less an exact interaction from one of the episodes

I may or may not have couple mini comics sketched up for this show 👀👀

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4 Panel digital art mini comic of 1940’s radio show Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen

Panel 1 - Clark Kent is a blur on the left side as he uses his superspeed to arrive. In front of him on the right is Jimmy Olsen he's taking a photo.

Panel 2 - Clark is now fully in focus and looks very uncomfortable. Jimmy looks up at Clark and says "Hey Mister Kent, I didn't see you come. Say, how'd you get here so quickly, anyways"

Panel 3 - Clark holds up his left hand swatting off the question, he looks uncomfortably off to the side with an obviously strained smile and replies "ha ha ha... Never mind that." In front Jimmy looks at him questioningly.

Panel 4 - Clark points to the right with conviction as he shouts "what's that over there!", His glasses shine blocks out his eyes. Jimmy follows Clark's finger.

[martyrbat]

locomotive crew freed – the adventures of superman (1940)

[TRANSCRIPT: a man ordering, “Keno, the persuader...” before the sound of a loud thud. Clark Kent then lets out a strained groan in false pain.]

[supermanradioshow]

The Adventures of Superman Radio Show’s version of Richard “Dick” Grayson’s Backstory.

Episode: George Latimer, Crooked Political Boss Part 17. Episode 1370. 24/09/1946

Dick Graysons Parents: John and Marie Grayson, famous duo circus act dubbed the Flying Graysons. Most famous team of high wire aerialists in the business before they were killed in front of an audience of 15,000 people.

Bruce had previously known of the flying Grayson act as he was an ametur aerialist himself, spending hours just watching the Graysons work out. The couple knew the millionaire enough for Bruce to share a viewing box seat with 8 year old Dick Grayson on the performance of the Grayson couples murder.

In the middle of the Graysons performance while doing a stunt on a tightrope wire, the cable suddenly snapped and the Graysons fell to the ground.

Marie died on impact while John died only a few minutes later but not before grasping Bruce Wayne’s hand and telling him to “take care of Dick” and that “this was murder”.

Batman investigated the murder and managed to find the murder but never was able to convict him of his crime. No vengeance plot whatsoever.

Murderer: George Larson, the circus ringmaster.

Evidence found: The steel high wire cable was partly sawed through, John Grayson’s Journal, hearsay from Dick Grayson and fellow circus performers.

Motive: during the beginning of WW2, Larson found that Mrs. Graysons was French. Her relatives (sister and brother) were in Paris and a part of the French underground.

Larson would see to it that the nazi authorities made it “unpleasant for her relatives” unless he was paid off. He blackmailed the Graysons until they had no more money to give him.

The Graysons threatened to go to the district attorney and pin Larson with blackmail and extortion. Which lead to Larson tampering with the wire the next day.

Retribution: They were unable to convict Larson of murder but through Dicks testimony, Larson was sent to prison for 10 years for blackmail and extortion.

[bizarroidea]

Not to reveal too much about my recent-ish media consumption but it's been weird jumping between different adaptations from different eras

Like in the radio show, Superman is really secretive about his existence and if I didn't know any better I would say that it was to protect his identity as Clark Kent, Reporter For A Great Metropolitan Newspaper. I think they were still treating it as a possibility that someone could recognise him (but he also straight-up threatens criminals not to tell anyone after exposing himself so is he that worried about it?)

And then I started watching Superman & Lois and it took me off guard it that nobody recognises him without being told? Like when we start, Jon and Jordan just have no clue that their dad is Superman even at 14 years old. When I saw Jordan's introductory scene where he's beating Superman up in a video game and Clark was disappointed, I thought he was just being an jerk! It wasn't until later in the episode where Clark and Lois started talking about it that I realised they hadn't told them. And later on I was surprised again that John Henry saw Clark with Lois and didn't know he was Superman? Or Lana not recognising Clark upon seeing Superman up close? They’re playing at the cognitive dissonance explanation without spelling it out, a trait this shares with most other modern adaptations but felt especially jarring here.

[bonebrokebuddy]

It’s time for a, “things I sent to my twin’s inbox but she said I should post myself because I never post my own work and she’d like if I stopped spamming her inbox with ideas but I forgot about it and just kept it in my drafts notes for months and now finally I’m posting the fucking things.”

Or for short:

DP X DC PROMPT #7:

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Danny visits metropolis and people are deadset on believing that Danny is either Clark’s little brother or his nephew from Illinois… despite that Clark can literally not be related to him. Not that the people at the Daily Planet know that, but even the ones who do know are giving him a hard time.

“I’m adopted Jimmy!” Clark threw his hands in the air in frustration. “You are very aware of that.”

“But he looks just like you Clark, you even talk the same!” Jimmy peaked around the corner, catching a glimpse of Danny talking to Lois in the employees lounge.

“He has a upper midwestern accent. I’m from Kansas, Jim. Not all midwesterners know each other!”

“So?”

“Jimmy. You know damn well why we can not be related.” Clark subtly gestured to his cheap “I believe in aliens” mug. Jimmy was Clark’s best friend and most of the time he really appreciated the kid’s keen eye but Jimmy also seemed to be constantly dead-set on figuring how to give Clark a headache.

“But he looks like a mini you! Have you asked him if he has a spare spaceship lying around anywhere?” Jimmy snarked as he glanced over to Danny and Louis who were finally heading back from their break.

“Jimmy, I will put you on the moon and leave you there.”

“Alright sheesh. I get it, I’ll drop it.”

[sisaloofafump]

Daily Diana #17

I am going issue by issue through Wonder Woman (1987—) and drawing my favourite outfits on a very vague daily schedule.

And we’re back, baby! My schedule has lightened and I finally have capacity to draw again. Very happy about that. This was issue 17, the beginning of a new arc (kinda). Lots of fun outfits :)

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Source images + a bonus outfit below!

[cantsayidont]

August 1940. Perhaps the most important Superman story never published: In the summer of 1940, Jerry Siegel wrote a complete script for a 26-page Superman epic (the length of two normal Superman stories of this period) in which Superman is weakened by a passing meteor of radioactive metal from the destroyed planet Krypton, here called "K-Metal." That alone would have been noteworthy, but that's far from all. Later in the story, Superman reveals his true identity to the survivors of a mine cave-in, including Lois Lane!

The other three witnesses are subsequently killed, but Lois now knows the truth. She and Superman then have the following conversation:

LOIS: Now I begin to see. Your attitude of cowardliness as Clark Kent-- It was just a screen to keep the world from learning who you really are! But there's one thing I must know: Was your--er--affection for me, in your role as Clark, also a pretense? SUPERMAN: THAT was the genuine article, Lois! LOIS: How foolish you were not to let me in on the secret! You should have known you could trust me! Why-- Don't you realize-- I might even be of great help to you? SUPERMAN: You're right! There were many times when I could have used the assistance of a confederate. Why didn't I think of it before? LOIS: Then it's settled! We're to be--partners! SUPERMAN: Yes -- partners!

It isn't quite so easy, however. After returning to Metropolis, Lois tells Clark, "I just remembered how long you've secretly been laughing at me! I don't like to be laughed at, Clark Kent-- But-- I'll assist you… Only for the good of humanity, however!"

Most of the art for this story was completed, or nearly completed, by Joe Shuster's shop artists before National-DC pulled the plug. The exact reasons are now unknown, although the most likely explanation is that the story just seemed like too much of a shift in the established dynamics of the Superman strip, which was by then running in newspapers and on the radio as well as in the comics. K-Metal, renamed Kryptonite, resurfaced in a 1943 radio storyline, which borrows some elements from this script, but Kryptonite wouldn't appear in the comics until 1949, and it wouldn't be until decades later that Lois Lane really and truly learned the secret.

For background on this story, see Mark Waid's article in ALTER EGO #26 (July 2003). The Superman Through the Ages website has a nearly complete recreation of the full story, done by modern artists (in color) based on the surviving pages of original art and Siegel's script, which Waid had carefully retyped using the same kind of typewriter Siegel used.

[jesncin]

Gail Simone's New 52 Batgirl run was the only comics run I ever truly followed as it was releasing and naturally I quit when Burnside happened lol. I did follow Superman Smashes the Klan as it released in issues before it became a collected graphic novel, and even listened to the Klan of the Fiery Cross old radio show arc in anticipation!

I read a ton of Batman comics sporadically in college and generally that's how I read cape comics nowadays. Pick a character, read a random comic run/graphic novel.

[stealingyourbones]

I have a personal head cannon where Clark Kent does golf to practice his strength control. So Clark Kent leads a triple life, one as Superman, one as Clark Kent, and one as one of the best professional golf players.

OBSESSED with this. Imagine this poor man trying to not hit a golf ball into orbit.

Reminds me of a Superman Radio Show arc where Supes gets amnesia, travels the country, and then proceeds to become the best professional baseball player the world has ever known under his alias Bud Smith.

[blorb-el]

Just saw your tags about Dick & Clark meeting first, where is this from?

the old time radio the adventures of superman show from the 1940s! unfortunately most of the serial was lost - we only have episode 2, 4, and 5, out of a 12 part serial. they are number 432-434 in this archive, if you wanna listen dick shows up in 433/part 4!

in brief, batman goes missing on a dangerous mission he refused to let dick in on, and dick, after trying everything, ends up writing a letter to superman asking for his help, and sends it to the planet. clark finds dick unconscious on a boat and rescues him, and they start working together to find bruce! and then the rest of the episodes are lost so we have to piece together the rest of the plot through secondhand sources :,)

[xbuster]

Why haven’t you read this comic

[slightly-depressed-sloth]

Another direct quote from 40’s radio show Clark! This line just lives in my head rent free, he’s always just so excited to break shit 💀💀

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Kinda part 2 of this? (not really but it’s also fanart of radio Clark)

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Image 1:

3 panel vertical comic of 1940’s radio show Superman

Panel 1; Superman is hovering over a lit roof window, he’s smiling and holding up his right hand in a fist saying “there’s the skylight!”

Panel 2; Close up of his fist as he punches and breaks the window with a *krrk* sound effect

Panel 3; back to full body shot of superman now with his hands on his hips and smiling triumphantly over the now destroyed window as he says “there WAS the skylight!”

Image 2;

A digital drawing of Superman in the centre of the canvas sitting crisscrossed his left hand waving and his right neatly in his lap as he beams at the viewer. There is a hard yellow light coming from the audiences right hand side and a yellow dotted rectangle in the background to help highlight Clark. Text with an arrow pointing to Clark on his left side reads “nuisance to property everywhere”

[martyrbat]

alright miss lane..... (<- guy whos so hard hes about to pass out)

[Transcript:

Lois: —and I also prefer Miss Lane.

Clark: Alright, Miss Lane...

Lois: As I was saying...]

[vexic929]

I just found one of my new favorite websites!!!!

brb while I listen to every old Superman, Batman, Blue Beetle, and detective/mystery broadcast for the rest of the night

[jewishdragon]

I'm such a radio slut. i love radio. I love radio shows!!! I love scripted radio i love talk shows i love panel shows!!!

I have the cassettes of some old timey radio shows (detective and country shows). But america needs more radio shows like in the 1900s. superman and the shadow and the like.

I got stuck with Prairie Home Companion (which ended in 2016 after being on the air SINCE 1974!!), which is fine. It's comfy. A variety show with music and weird little country stories. They had FAKE SPONSORS it was HILARIOUS.

And Says You! (my FAVORITE radio show, a panel show that was a word/trivia game!)

dont tell me podcasts are the same they are not. i want to turn on my radio and stumble across a random scripted drama or game show as if i turned on my TV and was just channel surfing.

Doesn't the BBC still make radio dramas?? do those still AIR ON RADIO? i listened to Cabin Pressure but obviously i got the mp3 files but did it actually like, broadcast???

[supermanshield]

He sits (fruity)

Action comics #88