Welcome to episode 26 of The Thrilling Adventures of Superman. The show’s mission is to explore the history and development of the Superman in his formative years by chronicling the Man of Steel’s Golden Age adventures in comics, radio and film.

It starts with a mysterious woman in the road ends with Superman taking on one of his own: A crooked journalist and his scandal-lovin’ publisher. Yellow journalism and blackmail lead our red, yellow and blue-clad hero on his latest four-color adventure as Michael looks at the Superman story from ACTION COMICS #18!

QUOTABLE:
If ever anyone had this coming — it’s you!
–Superman

The cover to ACTION COMICS #18 by Fred Guardineer

Superman's X-ray vision

Clark Kent: Ready for action

LOWER THAT GUN!

Links mentioned in the episode:
– Deadman Comics, Issue by Issue by Brian Foss
– Bert Christman biography from WarbirdForum.com. And here’s his Wikipedia entry, just for good measure.

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