SS 23. Alonzo Craig - Arctic Explorer (Parts 5 & 6)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Best of a speedy horse.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Locomotives even to leave tall buildings in a single bound.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Sky.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's Superman. Yes, it's Superman.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Strange visitor from another world who came to Earth with power.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
And abilities far beyond those of martle Man.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Superman who can change the course of mighty rivers, then
stealing his bare hands, and who disguised as bart and
mild Manner reporter for the great better publican newspaper write
the never ending magical book to justice and the American.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Way Well Green.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thanks folks, welcome back to old time radio mystery, suspense
and horror, and welcome back to Superman Saturdays. Today we
finish up the Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer storyline with parts
five and six. As always, if you have any comments

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you can send them to ot r msh at gmail
dot com. All right, well, let's go ahead and get
into part five here of Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer, and
this one air June fifth of nineteen forty.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Enjoysiting the teacher Superman, I'm the bid.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Ah and now Superman Champion of the Week and the
oppressed balliant fighter for Cruisan justice Faster than an airplane
stronger than a locomotive, who came to Earth from interstellar
state to walk the Earth disguised as Miles Clark Kent
use reporter for the Daily Planet, then to search for

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Alonzo Crag, famous explorer who has been missing for over
three years. Clark kentered in the wilds of Elsmere Land
in the far North with Professor Peters and Captain night
Waters navigators. Hearing that Crag has been captured by Indians.
I have penetrated to the front and temple of the
Kinelata far down in the ice beneath the valley of
the cliff, where the witch Doctor who never dies. He

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watched over the mysterious traitor of the tribe from the
last lam Kent as superman, had overpowered the witch Doctor,
only to make the incredible discovery that the witch Doctor
was Alonzo Crag himself. Its horror. Evidently, the methodic had
saigned unconsciousness and made good his escape in the cliff cavern.
Device sorry continues today an hour of pass. Captain Waters

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has been set up to the prepose to bring back
food and lantern Candon's Professor Peters and built the fire
anxiously awaiting his return. Listen, you notice that we have
our fired their camp currently on the altar of the temple.
What about well, it seems to them fire heavy.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
For that accounts of the woods. Wonder what they do
down here?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
You native rituals considered something that thought, I imagine possibly
in connection.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
With the treasure.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Wonder Bray Martin with Christ, there really is any treasure?
Find the loves of Crag. Can find out how he
was turned from a man in the prime of life
into the witch doctor the Cua luckers. If you can
find that out, discovery the secret of the treasure will
be very never should have let Crag escape?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
You are quite sure the witch.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Doctor was Craig Positive professors, amazing, amazing, Why do you
explain it?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
What's the answer? Positive? They can and don't believe in magic?
All right, But there's something here we don't understand. Either
Credit had lost his mind or he's under the influence
of some perfect force or drug.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
That's true, What chance have we even if we do
find him? Can't I don't know? If it all looks hopeless?
Ken can what's that that's training.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Behind you back at the awkard heaven? What is it?
You know? Matter? Fire?

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Look that's for a whole section of the ice is
swinging to one side.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's a door. It's an opening door. Can't can't look
that was no accident. Look into the opening the passage way.
I think we find.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Camp that that passageway leads into the treasure chambers of
the cure locker.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
But how what made it open?

Speaker 4 (04:48):
You don't understand the heat of the fire camp. It's part
of the ritual when they lit their fire.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
On the order just as milled ours, and he started.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
A mechanism that opens the ice door. That's right, yes,
but it's going in. But the stillnon is maybe come.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
On, we're going through that opening. Follow me right, yeah,
but what do you think when the beef will room?
Look and isn't it there's no collage on the wall
from the dinner and there here's the cor you know,

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the water into something odd. It's the chest that old
word chat hasn't even hatter. Maybe you're that.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
I'm gonna break over waters never come back fast by
the day we heard we can't.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Break the waters. My hand can do com possibly do
it anyway? I can try maybe go b all right,
here's all all right, Rank, It's true. There is a treasure.

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Oh what a treasure? No disund un an ever looking
a treat by a head look more les movie, let's
go look at all that stuff. So Kennedy, it's underneghbood incredible,

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it said they can't be truer.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
And that is what all the money in the world
and by one quarter what's the not away of that
Chester year?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
And alogy just really are I can't believe I can
be three years to get up because of that. That's
because quick, quick, it's incredible. It's all okay, okay, joking,

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No craft clear stream dren here craft yshun you know
I'm that wat's that come in here and you shut

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the other storm. We'll see how much difference that makes
the jubermatter? Right, right? I go do some how to dance?
Got set it all right? I think you can't see
what happened to make it here? It goes fire a
the tire feel can't let up A get there once

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more and we're up.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
There.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
That doesn't where's that witch doctor?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now?

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Throwing knives at me?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I am that's just too bad, my friend, because it
shows me where you are and this time you won't
get away. There He goes down that gallery faster comment,
I don't want to hurt him.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Craig gone, man down we go now.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Crank Alanto, Craig can pool. You can't get away, and
don't throw that nice either, I said, stop. Doesn't know
what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I gotta do something. I have to sun him. I
hate to do it. Yes, that doesn't cold in time.
Now back to Peter. Here we go, Cray.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Back up the gallery up up Ah, there's the goal
of the fire set around that corner.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I have to come down here. Here is something too.
I can't put him. See me now, Ken, Ken, where
are you? What's happened? Tell me, professor this way when
you're right, what else? Ken? It won't happen to me.
Everything went blacker. I must a collapse. Professor, the flash?

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Where is I? I don't know. I've lost it. Ken,
I don't understand the professor. There's something in the air
of that room. But look what I have here? When
you carry come here to the fire, O heaven, this
is the witch doctor. Did you ever know? Captain crag Ken?
I comprolieved it looks possible. Look at him. I caught

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him and knocked him out. I had to do it. Professor,
he's a man, man a regular things. Oh heaven help him, can't?
You are right? It is the rungs of crime. Give
me a belt, quick? What are you going to do?
Tie him up? Of course you can't have him running
off again? Quick? Give me am over hour? Can hello?

Speaker 7 (10:14):
What can we do?

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Get him out of here and back to civilization where
I can get medical treatment?

Speaker 8 (10:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:19):
What's keeping water? So long? You haven't been back any
minute now?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Meanwhile, we've got a mad man and millions of dollars
in golden gyms in our hands.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
How does that run to peak?

Speaker 9 (10:28):
Good?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right we ever get out of this, you'll thank us
for it? I see? But can what about his hand?
My own doubt taking care of that? Huh?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Not? It?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Come back into that treasure camera. Oh you needn't worry.
Whatever it was to not go out, it's played off
by now. And then you say so ken, Wait by
the tremendous cage is completely shattered. Yes, isn't this? What's
the poem? Then we go, what are you going to do?

Speaker 4 (10:51):
I'm going to get that treasure cant out of there
just as fast as I can't.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Give me a hand.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
But can't hear you can't move it. It's not possible
if we can't. It's all I said, don't you say?
Come on already, slide it right along in the ie.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Careful now, and I'll put the right moving us. You're
really right way? All right? No? Hold not right here?
A way up now? You know I'm getting good boyd
about Walter go eyes and gone over an hour. I
don't like the look of things at all. All right now, man, well,

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what are you doing now? Put in the wick cot crag?
Whichaf you want to call him?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Right across the plant on top of the treasure. Yeah,
you and I are going to drag this whole business out.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Can't we come? May play us again? Anyway? We've got
to try.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
Can't wait any longer. The women maybe on the way up,
can't We don't know the way out. We don't even
know which way Wolters win. What's that mean? They're coming?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
They're coming down in the puddle the quick Let the
hand here, Let hold the plan tend they take up
the borrow.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's what we've got to get Outlet get cred when
we can't. Who's not coming? Father? Okay?

Speaker 4 (12:19):
And that's the sunken temple of the Kinlaka God with
the sacred treasure and the uncontent form of the Witch Doctor,
who with Captain Craig found hand and put on the plan.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
What can be done?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
How can Superman and his companion escape to the surface
of the ground and even if they won the next
time and follow the swilling story of Superman.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, So there we have it, folks. They found the
treasure and it turns out to be real, and they
end up with Alonso Craig, who is now in their hands,
but they're still not out of the woods yet. Here

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again we see, and we've probably seen this before on
the show, but the gas in the cave or whatever
did not affect Superman. It affected the other guy, but
it did not affect him. So that's a very interesting part,
I guess of his superpowers. All right, everybody, we are

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going to take a quick break and then we'll be
right back with part six of Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer.
All right, folks, well, let's go ahead and get into
the final part of the Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer storyline.
Sit back and enjoy Alonzo Craig Arctic Explorer, Part six,

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which aired June seventh, of nineteen forty.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Cooper Man the Superman.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Now Superman Balliant, Fighter for Truth and Justice, Champion of
the Week, and the Oppress has appeared on Earth from
the outer reaches of.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
The universe, with a physical structure.

Speaker 10 (14:26):
Never before attained by Immortal Man Superman, who is stronger
than a locomotive cast to them.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
A feeding bullets was about among.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Human beings decided as Miles Clark, camp news reporter for
the Daily Planet. When we last saw him, caned chapped
to the Indian which Factor and found that he was
a missing explorer. Alonzo cragged completely under the effects of
un native poisons.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Sorry continues today.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
Cannabis friends the clock Side and the papulous Indian pisuers
batly out of the sunken temples and back to their
I grew camp.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
The Indian War Party is closed on their players.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
The tent remained outside on what Captain Waters and Professor
Pep verbly pack up food.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
And supplies out beside them.

Speaker 8 (15:04):
The young time to fall up cracks and drove down
all the offers and writing, what do you think.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Them devils done? To pray?

Speaker 8 (15:14):
I have no idea he couping, maybe a compned my
son without that the object by now maybe some drugs
Indian poisons and something that we know nothing whatever is done?

Speaker 1 (15:26):
How did you do? I mean some drugs?

Speaker 7 (15:28):
What do we do if you the king captain? But
still I set very mud or fellow three years or
what do they have involved?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I said, what's going on? I always talking and coming
makes and.

Speaker 9 (15:46):
The dogs make a kid o. The rest of the
dogs might make it. We're not done, that's how What
do you mean.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Right coming on the trail's not gonna say where we
are making that say they'll kill us if we leave
them quicker yet that I.

Speaker 9 (16:04):
Captain Morris, knock a hole to the walls, just a faller,
but to get on the face of.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
The Bible up.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
That's the media glue. Hand of their comrades pulled off
the hospital. Indian night falls and the Moans make camp outside.
Oh oh oh, ken, what's the time? At the last
and mid nine? Or sing something?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wake you up? I don't know what's going on, no change.
I'm keeping watch as I can tell. The Indians have
made camp in a circle about one hundred yards away.
They need to starve the house. How many of them
are there?

Speaker 4 (16:52):
I can't be sure. I think it's just a small
war fight. The rest of them are back of the temple.
That's not my real word, said, what do you mean
he's Captain Crags. Oh, there's a question if he'll ever
recover Henty. He's getting work. The one thing to do, Professor.
If there is some secret, some way of bringing Crag
back to health and reasons begin to him. Are the

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only ones who knows. And I'm afraid Crag is well
definite sleep defendor. I'll call you, when did you return
to go and watch? Oh?

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I kid you?

Speaker 10 (17:34):
He feels again through the dim interior of the tanago,
where hope is all the same, but outside high over
the ice field of eut there Land.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
And didn't take hurtles through the night, Superman, we take
streaming in the wind, returned to the frunken temple, and
except of ice or the secret of Crags matter for
the good of.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Lucky Indians find him now in the heart of the
secret ice caasee Gore. I can hear them, Candy, tell
they are and they see me now down down, where's

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your teeth?

Speaker 5 (18:14):
I want to talk to him and put down those spears,
cop them. You drop those fears, all right?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
If you all right, now, where's your teeth? Don't try
to get away? All right, chiefs, you and I are
going to talk. What have you done too?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Cry?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
You're that's cool? I do you not the time? What
have you done to? Cry? Quick? He's quite cutting. You'll
never know that, man. I never tell you. Oh yes
you will. You'll tell me right now.

Speaker 11 (18:58):
I said you no medicine man, We met him, medicine. Man,
he stay medicine. Man until he died. Tell me what
you've done the crag?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Or you die right here? And now.

Speaker 11 (19:10):
You think so, man, go and kill me, kill all
you never learned secrets of never never. I'm he's stay medicine.
I'm still he died?

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh hope, who doesn't him? We're getting delirious. It wasn't
as well as the last night. I tell you there's
going to be a crisis. You can't go on as
he is now? Where on earth is can head? Where
where are they now? How crack? But what he there's

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how crack? Never mind the question? Can you work yourself? Madi?
Credit that here? You hold him? Thank you? It has
been helped me get his mouth over? Hey, what said?
What are you going to do? What's that pounder and
then hold.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Him peacon, how your best heats?

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh? He looking at me? Say you a quickly? Back?
You got most of it? Find now what they can drink?
Point it down the tail? Quick can? What what is it?
When din't you get that powder? Never mind? There's one
chance in the innions no water? Quick? Then? What was

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that should be giving me? Look? Look at what he's turning. Wait, kaid,
what have you done? Any thing? I couldn't if I've
killed him? We had the chance. I get alive on
the team.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
You have the waters?

Speaker 1 (20:41):
What's what you're doing? And they're coming? They're coming hey
walk no, no, shoot? No, what do you mean? Don't shoot?
They're right on top of him, said, coming right? Let
me here, give me that come give it here. They're
coming right. So I see you have to wait, Keith,

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where is a way? Where is my captain? Medicine?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Man?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
I'm right there. Keep yourself. You're wait too long?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
We too.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I see what happens if the captain mccover, where is
pure ta prazure? Now?

Speaker 9 (21:20):
Okay, I'm trying to get out of it. Prayle okay,
what's this? What's happening?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
You see white? Captain Bick you give but pleasure? We go?

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Okay, Captain Craig, it's waters, oh right, waters, And he
knows me, Chief, I'll do what I said.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
You on your card, see that check, take it it's yours.
Can I call on your mind? Seeing the pressure? And
I Thomas wike man, Oh we go, you'll go pay?

Speaker 9 (21:55):
Well?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Have you done? What? Give it? Can't pray? Take it easy?
All right? Promis? How is he? He's weak? But he
knows me, say I reckon.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
He'll come out of it after all, ken ken, I
don't under ten the less unsigned I did.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
The only thing that was I went to the Indians.
They refused to give the antidote to the drugs. So
I bargained with him.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
I promised to return that treasure if they gave me
the antidote. You gave them back to the treasure. All
those tens go wrong, there's anyway we had no right
to it. Yes, I gave him back that treasure, Professor,
for Captain Cragg's life. That was the best pargain I
ever made. Look look at the Indian professor. They're going
back to the valley of the Ice Cliffs, back to
their country. And the way going back to ods with

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Captain Crag come on, we'll get the dogs time.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
That's old. Last time I heard his kemp was over
three years ago. Like coming back to dead.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
We're glad to have you back, Captain Crag. Oh, not
your mind set this ring. I took it from you
in the chap. I want to want to say something
to please enough, but don't worry.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'm not going to to thank you.

Speaker 10 (23:08):
There aren't words in the language. But I do not
want to return to rings. I want you to keep
them happy. I know I have propagated three years ago.
He valued it above everything else in the world, and
so that's why I want you to have. No you
will save a man's life, and more than that, you

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can't for human want small. Everything I want you to
have between.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Carries the initials of all the families. And there's a
seat open that keep that give me. I don't know
what to say, really, I won't either.

Speaker 10 (23:46):
Say anything we can, but I want to remember that
this ring is a symbol. It's the symbol of the
stain of a man. That's okay, I'll keep this always.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
That holl Look course, there's Captain Ballers waiting to listen.
The bridge. We're hearing mass come us.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
The mystery sound Captain Alonzo Craig returned to health and
Kennathy after three years of living burial Park kent with
another amazing sensational story for the Daily Planets, even while
the expedition makes his way back to civil evasions, another
assignment even stranger, and more of his hour and taking form.
Tune in next time and follow the story of Superman,

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and remember be sure to tune in the next thrilling
installment of the amazing tense fiction feature Superman.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Out of the Sky. It's a good it's the same,
It's Superman.

Speaker 10 (24:54):
Superman is a copyright speaker appearing in Action Comic Magazine.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
All right, just got a few comments here and then
we will wrap up today. First off, I want to
say that it's nice to have a problem that Superman,
even with all his powers, cannot solve, and that is
the fact that Alonzo Craig had a physiological biological problem

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because of the drugs put into him that even Superman
could not fix that problem. And so he was sort
of at the mercy of the Indians for the antidote.
And this gives a challenge to Superman in a way
that just swooping in and beating up the bad guys

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will never really give him. And the second point I
want to make is that it really shows the character
of the Superman character because he chooses to do the
right thing. He gives up the treasure to save Alonzo
Craig's life, and so he there he is doing the
right thing, even at great cost. One of the things

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I was a little bit disappointed with was the fact
that Paula Craig did not really have a part in
the rest of the story after that first initial episode
they brought her in and then it was like, well
that's that. There's no reunion or anything like that at
the end with Paula Craig and Alonso Craig. So that

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was a little bit disappointing, but just a little complaint there.
All right, So we're promised another exciting storyline and the
next storyline, I believe Lois Lane finally ends up back
on the show. We have gone a long time now
without the Lois Lane character, and so starting with the

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next storyline, I believe Lois Lane is finally back on
the show. So looking forward to that, all right, everybody.
That is going to be a wrap for today. Again.
If you have any comments on this storyline, or anything
else related to the podcast for that matter, you can
send your comments to O t R M. S h

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at gmail dot com. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
I'll catch you next time.