Lyle Talbot gives the role a serviceable airing. This Luthor is bald as his comic-book counterpart was, while also comes in the comic-book’s original conception as a scientist rather than the businessman he became from the late 1970s onwards. Superman also features the first screen appearance of Lex Luthor (who here is referred to as simply ‘Luthor’ – he didn’t gain the first name Lex in DC Comics continuity until 1960). At this point, Superman had gained just as much fame appearing on the radio as the comic-book page – as the opening credits of each chapter here note, the serial is “Based on the Superman Adventure Feature Appearing in Superman and Action Comics Adapted from the Superman Radio Program,” where both comic-book and radio show are seen as co-equal.Ītom Man vs. Superman was a sequel and only a couple of years later we had the hit George Reeves tv series The Adventures of Superman (1952-8). This was followed by the live-action film Superman (1948) – a Serial in fifteen chapters – where Kirk Alyn became the first actor to play the role – and Atom Man vs. Around the same time, there were seventeen Superman animated short films made by Paramount that appeared between 19. This enjoyed such success that a mere couple of year later Superman was adapted to a popular radio show that ran from 1940 to 1951. Superman first appeared on the comic-book page in Action Comics #1 in 1938. With this, he creates synthetic Kryptonite and use the teleportation device to eliminate Superman by sending him to The Empty Doom where his molecules are dispersed in space. Continuing to operate as Atom-Man, he determines to obtain control of all supplies of radium. Not long after, Luthor is freed from jail and given a position as head of a television studio. From the cave he operates as the masked figure he calls Atom-Man. He uses this to disappear from his cell, go to his cave hideout and then return before anybody notices. However, Luthor has invented a device that can teleport anybody who is holding a special coin.
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