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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Kellogg's Pep, The Super Delicious Stereo Present The Adventures of
super Man. I stead on a speeding bullet more powerful
than a locomotive. Able believe Paul Building that a single bound.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Up on the side.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
HiT's a bird, HiT's a plane.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
That's super Man.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, it's Superman, a man of steel. Today Robin, youthful
assistant of the famous Batman, tells him why he so
desperately needs his help. But before we join them for
the exciting story, let's hear from Dan McCullough.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Okay, Dan, say gang.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
The other day, an Army pilot I know, was over
at my house looking at some pet model planes I had,
and you know, he made a very interesting remark. He
said that these pet planes were some of the best
models he'd ever seen for identification work.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
And he thought that all of you ought to be
able to learn a lot from them.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
And I'll bet you.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Have too, if you've been making that super delicious cereal
Kellogg's Pep your own special breakfast, because right inside every
single Pep package there's a colored cardboard plane model.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
All ready for you to put together.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
And you don't have to send in a single penny
for it, not even a box stop once more. There
are thirteen different models you can get all together, four British,
two Russian, and eight American, and on the back of
each model there's a list of valuable pointers on how
to spot that particular plane, as well as a general
description of it.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
So, gang, if you haven't yet started your.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Collection of these nifty plane models, get busy right away.
Be sure your mother gets you a package of those golden,
delicious whole wheat flakes tomorrow. See which model plane you'll
find inside, and remember.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
The name Pep.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Pep Pep is made by Kellogg's. In Battle Creek and
now The Adventures of Superman, sensing a story in a
mysterious note addressed to Superman, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen
rented a boat and rowed out on North Bay, where
they found an un conscious boy in a row boat.
On their way back to shore with the boy, they
were rung down by a large speedboat and were near

(02:06):
drowning when Superman appeared and rescued them At a doctor's house.
The boy revived and identified himself as Dick Grayson. He
said he had sent the note to Superman and was
in great trouble but refused to discuss the matter with
anyone but the Man of Steel. Clark Kent took Dick
to his apartment, where he left for a moment and
then reappeared as Superman. He told Dick he had seen

(02:28):
the cape beneath his coat and the red leather vest
with the letter R on it, and recognized him as Robin,
companion of the famous Batman. The boy admitted his identity
and pleaded for help.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
You've got to help me, Superman.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You've got to.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Of course, I'll help you if I can.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
You're the only one who can.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
This sounds serious.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It is.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
It's the most serious thing that ever happened.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
That's a pretty strong statement, Robin.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
It's true, you see, Yes, Batman has disappeared.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
What, Yes, bat Man has disappeared.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Where when?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I don't know where. He left me in our cottage
at Queen's Point, had to cross the base.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yes, he told me to wait for him there. He
said he'd be back before evening. But he didn't come back,
didn't they?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
When was this? I mean, when did he leave?

Speaker 4 (03:14):
It was yesterday?

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Batman left right after lunch. He said he'd be back
in a few hours.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Did he say where he was going.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
No.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
All he said was that he was working on the
biggest case of his life and he was all set to.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Finish it up that afternoon.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Did he give you any indus to what it was?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I begged him too, but he wouldn't. He said it
was too dangerous for even me to be mixed up in.
He said that the fate of the whole world depended on.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
It, fate of the whole world.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yes, you got to find him, Superman, because what I'm
afraid of is that those men got him.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
What men, the men who came to our cottage last
night to get me?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh wait a minute, you better tell me about that.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
When I was going to.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
When Batman hadn't returned by dinner time like he said
he would, I began to get a little nervous. And
when he wasn't home by ten o'clock and then by eleven,
I was really warm worried. I decided to wait another
hour and then call the police and start looking for him.
But then Alfred, He's our butler, came into the living
room where I was watching the clock.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'd say, mausterdy, we seemed to be getting company. Do
you mean Batman's back?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Alfred unfortunately no.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
But I was just out of the garden and I
observed half a dozen men sneaking up from the beach.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
They seemed to be surrounding the house.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
What qut and the bounders have guns?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
We seemed to be in a bit of a particament.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
One. I switched off a light, went to the window
and looked out.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
Alfred was right. There were men surrounding the house. They'd
spread out, crouched down low, and they were sneaking up beyond.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Bushes and trees. I could see the guns in their hands,
and I didn't like it. I rang to the phone
to call the police.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Hello, operator, Hello, hau operator haw helo, holl the phone's dead.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Alfred dead, my word, hawk of the telephone.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
I mean it's not working. It was all right earlier
this evening. Those men must have cut the wires the
door back.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Well, what do we do now? There are too many
for me to take them along.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Then I know it took a food No, too many
guns out.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
We gotta get out of here and say.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Come on, Alfred, where the gun chat member house?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So I'm I'll show you. Come on.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
It took Alfred down to the face minute to a
trap door that opens when you press a hidden button
behind the furnace, and got it open and pushed Alfred
in following.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Him, just as when you heard.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
The men forced their way into the house and they
closed the trap door behind me and let Alfred through
the tunnel to the boat house. There was another trap
door in there that you could push up from underneath,
and I started to open it when I heard.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
The voice, Boy who did it?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, we get the man fences up and he so
I had the man shut out.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Hey, what's that?

Speaker 5 (06:00):
There were two men in the boat house, Alfred, I said,
what do we do now? City wait for them to
give up looking for us, and then go to the police.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Was the bay something?

Speaker 4 (06:15):
And offer the knight.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Stayed in the tunnel all the rest of the night, superman,
and all the next day.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Then, no, it's a minute.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
When you opened the trap door in the boat house,
one of the men there said they were being paid
by what was the name?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
It was an odd name.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
It sounded like Zultan Zultan eh okay, go on, Robin. Well,
like I said, we stayed in the tunnel all that
night and all the next day. We could hear them
looking for us, tramping across the floor. Finally they stopped looking,
but they didn't go away. I kept hoping Batman would
show up, but he didn't. And then I knew something

(06:49):
had happened to him and I had to try to
find him. So when evening came again, that was this evening,
I inched the trap door opened in the boat house.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I see how they still there, masterd just one of them.
He's sitting with his back doors looking out at the water.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I trust he's enjoying the view.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Want look, Alfred, I've got an idea. But you've got
to help me, will you?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Of course, Masterdy, you know that good.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
I've written a note. I want you to deliver it
for me.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Deliver a note no matter what.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
I'll be happy too.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
But how do I get out of here?

Speaker 5 (07:25):
I'll take care of this fellow in a boat house,
and you let the chap have a gun or I
can aggle him. Now listen, when I tackle him, you
run out the back door of the boat house. He's dark,
and chances are you can slip through the grounds without
being seen and step.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
On it to the Daily Planet newspaper as fast.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
As you can ride to a Master dic But I
really think I should have had to deal with that character
in the boat house.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
I'll take care of him. Get ready, now, I'm gonna
open the trap door.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I've read this, uh ready and the ego.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
So far, so good. I'll sneak up by him so
he lives him me. Now. When I called you, Alfred
run and good Luck had the same views up here.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I go, ohkame out.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
For a while there we.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Had quite a tussle, but Batman taught me judah, you know,
and I was able to knock the gunman out.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
And then I got into our rowboat and started pulling away.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, uh, why did you use the row boat?

Speaker 5 (08:32):
I wanted a safe place to meet you, and I
thought out on the bay was the best place.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
But when I was.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
About two hundred yards off shore, I heard the man
I'd knocked out come too and start yelling.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
A little later I heard a speedboat start up. Had
a powerful spot.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Life and then yes, I can guess the rest of it.
They uh caught up with you and shot you. That
explains your head wound. I imagine they thought they finished you,
I guess.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
So I passed out and didn't wake up until I
was in the dock.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
His house is mister Kenny, Jimmy Olsen and miss Lane.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
You don't know it, but that.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Speedboat hung around a while. I saw jim and miss
Lane pick you up and then ran them down.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Hm. Nice fellas well. I've got work to do now, Robin.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
You're going to look for Batman in a way.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yes, now, you listen to me, Clark Kent maybe back
here before well before I return. If he does show up,
trust him and go with him. Do you understand?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
But but what can mister can't do.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Almost as much as I can?

Speaker 6 (09:31):
So long, Robin, or maybe i'd get better get used
to calling you Dake.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Where are you going out this window?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Why?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But what about Batman?

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Let me worry about Batman from here on in see
his own h I we've.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Been too the Gosmas Superman swiftly disappears.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Where is he going?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
We'll return in a moment for the climaxcept today's episode,
But first, here's a question for you, Dang oh, well,
have you been studying the aviation facts that are printed
on the backs of.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
All the PEP model planes?

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Can you tell the armament of each plane, its speed
and range, as well as how to spot it? Remember
on the back of each plane model, you get a
description of it and a list of specifications, as well
as pointers on how to spot it. And don't forget
either that there are fourteen different models you can get
in the Kellogg's pet packages, four British, two Russian and

(10:25):
eight American. Now they're made of colored cardboard and they're
really easy to put together. All you have to do
is to press out the parts with your thumbs and
assemble them. And best of all, gang It, don't have
to send in a single penny to get any of
these grand models, not even a box stop. There's a
plane right inside every single package of that super delicious

(10:46):
cereal Kellogg's Pep.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
So gang be sure your.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Mother gets you a package of those golden, delicious holy
wheat flakes tomorrow. See which model plane you find inside,
and remember the name Pep. Pep Path is made by
Kellogg's and Battle Creek. And now back till they Adventure
yourself Superman. Leaving Dick Grayson alias Robin in his apartment,
Superman disappeared, only to return an hour later in his

(11:12):
guise of.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Clark Kent with Dick's dry clothes, then.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Taking a taxi Kent and Dick rode across town with
dark street facing a deserted park where we join them.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Now, what are we doing here, mister Kenton? I'm not
christ sure myself, Dick killyn White?

Speaker 6 (11:26):
Are you easy?

Speaker 7 (11:28):
See that one story building we're coming to with the
two wide barred windows across the front looks like.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
A fancy store. Mm, only there's no way to get in.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
The doors are on the side.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
What sort of a place is it?

Speaker 6 (11:40):
On their gilt.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Letters on the breakfast above the windows, you see them?

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Oh yeah, Dultan's wax museum.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sultan, your voice.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Down, that's the name the man in the boat house us.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
I think it was, as you see, that's just the trouble.
You're not sure. But it's the only lead we've got
so far. And this Sultan one's the wax museum.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
It's the only one with that name in the phone
book in the city directory.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
But what could have a man in a wax museum
have to do with Batman disappearing?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
We don't know if he did have anything to do
with it. As I say, it's our only lead so far.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
So come on where.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
I don't want to have a look through those windows.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
But it's too dark. To see anything.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can see pretty well in the dark. The street
lamp behind us throws a little lighter.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
I hold up now, hm, just a lot of life
sized wax figures standing around the floor.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, I can see them.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
They're all dressed up and mm yeah they look kind
of weird in the dark, don't thing.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Mm hm, that's funny you want, mister?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Can't those wax figures?

Speaker 7 (12:44):
There's something familiar about the faces, but I I can't
quite place them.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
I can't either thee oh gosh, look what Dick over
the left against the wool a lot?

Speaker 5 (12:55):
It's Batman and Batman here, Look it's Batman.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yes, I see, only only he's a wax statue. Startled
Clark Kent's eyes followed Dick Grayson's trembling finger to the silent,
life sized figure of the missing Batman. What can this mean?
Thos and girls, There's a startling surprise in store for

(13:21):
you and for Superman on Monday, so don't miss it.
Tune in, same time, same station, or another exciting episode
and the adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet,
more powerful than a looker, able to leave poor building.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
For a single bound up on the sky hits a bird.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Hits a plane that Superman.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Fellows and girls, be sure to follow the adventures of
Superman brought to you every day, Monday through Friday, same time,
same station, by the makers of that super delicious cereal.
Kellogg's Pep. Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Superman
DC publication.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
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