Presenting Superman. Look in the sky. Look. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman. Now, Superman. Events on the main line of the West Coast Railroad are rapidly reaching a climax. Feeding west, a silver clipper pours up the slope of the Rockies heading for San Joaquin Pass. Disaster, sudden and unseen, lies waiting for it in Schooner Canyon Lake. While Superman wings his way through space, searching desperately for the nearest mountain town. He finds it, drops down from the sky, and enters the office of the local chief of police and his character of Clark Kent, reporter. Listen. Well, you talk good. I'll say that for you, Kent. Well, if you don't believe me, telephone my paper and ask for verification. Or call the division superintendent of the West Coast Railroad at Denver. The silver clipper is a West Coast train, isn't it? Well, it is now, but it won't be long. I tell you, if something isn't done in a hurry... Then, okay, but how are you going to prove it? Suppose I get up there to the San Joaquin and pull in a couple of guys. Well, how am I going to prove anything? Well, I'll attend to that. You know the Circle Y Ranch? Sure. What about it? A couple of injured train men crawled in there a while ago. They were on that missing locomotive in Tender. They were, huh? You don't mean it. I certainly do mean it. If you get those two men I told you about, the one who calls himself the Wolf and his henchman Kino, the mystery is solved. Well, say, you begin to make sense, young fellow. By God, I'll do it. What's your plan? Get a fast car and head for the crossing at San Joaquin. Yeah? You know the old Schooner Canyon Junction? Well, I reckon I can find it, even in the dark. All right. Get up there and hide. If we don't catch them red-handed, it's no good. That's what I'm waiting for. Okay, Kent. Say, that is your name, ain't it? Hey, hey, where are you going? I want to call my paper back east. Tell them to hold the presses for a big break. I'll pay for the call. Operator? Operator? I, uh, I want Perry White, managing editor of the Daily Planet. Yes. Rush it, please. I'll hold the line. Hello? White speaking. Kent. Kent, good lord, man. I thought you were dead. Where have you been all day? Tied up in a set. Now, wait a minute. Why, I'm going to press right now. Well, hold it, will you? Stop the press? It better be good, Kent. Oh, don't worry. Kent, are you kidding? Where are you now? What's going to happen? Okay, Kent. Something. I can't wait. What's all this about a mysterious flying figure? Something called a Superman? Oh, forget it, Mr. White. Somebody's pipe dream, eh? There's been a lot of talk. Well, forget it, White. Good luck, Kent. I'll be waiting. Hey, stop the press. Replay coming. Top column on the Western Railroad. Get a rewrite back. Superman, eh? As you'd say, I am in a position to know. Hup. Not much time with the wolf waiting there at the canyon. If I don't get back in time to fix that switch. Forty miles more. Faster. Let's get out of this tunnel. I don't like it. Not too long to wait now. What's the time, Keno? Five minutes more. She's on time. She was on time at Creeville. Come on, boss. Let's beat it. A very sound idea, Keno. In five minutes or something less, this tunnel will be a most unhealthy place. What do you think will happen? Something resembling the end of the world, Keno. Screaming brakes. Rending steel. Pillows of steam. Yes. Decidedly, we should move, my friend. Come. Where to? Down to the tracks, where we can observe the switch. Close to the scene of action. But not too close. Listen, are you sure they can't stop in time? Downhill at 90 miles an hour? Impossible, Keno. What if she leaves the rails at the switch? What if she can't take the curtain? A chance, but not likely. Come on, man. Get moving. Hey, someone's coming. Hey, hey. Quick, Keno. Minutes, count down. There's the train. Traveling fast, all right. Ah, there's the junction. Got a minute, maybe less. What have those devils done to the tracks? Ah, broken the seals and thrown the switch, eh? Well, it won't take long to fix that. And I'll just rip up a few of the old France line rails. That ought to settle things. Well, well, look who's coming. Hey, boss. Who's that guy down by the switch? Look, he's tearing up the track. Well, well, what are you doing? Where's your gun? Shoot, shoot. Don't worry, boss. I'll get him. I never missed yet. Got him, boss. No, no, you didn't. There he is. You missed him, you fool. Never mind, boss. I won't miss him this time. Hey, you. Keno, what's the matter with you? All right, then rush him. The train. Here comes the train. Get that man away from there, Keno. Boss, beat it, beat it. It's him. I see him now. It's the man with the red cape. The train, the train. Run, Keno, run. Make for the car. Made it. Threw the switch just in time. Go on, Silver Clipper. I balled for Salt Lake City in the West. Then, after those lads in the car, what did you do? Here I come. I tell you, it was him. The guy in the red cape, the Superman. Shut up, Keno. Whoever it was, I'll settle with him. He threw the switch back and saved the train. Faster, boss. Faster. Get away from here. Keep your head, Keno. There's something about this I don't understand. Boss, look out. He's right behind us. He's over our heads. Look, look. What is that thing? He's down there in the road ahead. He's standing there. Look out. We're going to crash. Sorry to disturb you, gentlemen. Don't try to get away. Where are you? Put me down. Let me go. Let me go. In one moment. Just now, while I hold both of you with one hand, I've got something else to do. That car, for instance. You won't need it again. Where you're going, you've got to make this accident look convincing. That car. Look what he's doing to the car, boss. He's wrecking it. There. No one will ever ride in that again. Hello. Here comes the car. Heard the crash. Must be the police. Well, so long, gentlemen. I'm leaving you now. And if you ever wreck another train or try to, think what you've missed this time. Goodbye. Here's where that crash was. There's a couple of guys lying on the road. Hey, grab them, boys. Why, I wouldn't wonder if they were the fellas that newspaper man was talking about. They tried to make a getaway and cracked up. Well, look where their car got to. Man live looks like a cyclone, he did. Yes, doesn't it? Or that, uh, that Superman they keep talking about. Good evening, Chief. Say, there you are. Why, it's the reporter. Well, howdy, Mr. Kent. Well, I see you got them all right. Yes, but there was no train wreck. I guess we scared them all. Keep them off. Keep them off. We done it. Put me in jail. Put me anywhere. But don't let that guy touch me again. He just came flying through the air. Say, he's nuts. Off his head. But that was a confession if I ever heard one. Yes. And if you'll drag the bottom of Schooner Canyon Lake, you'll find that missing engine in Tender. What? And don't forget those two trainmen at the Circle Y Ranch. They'll be your star witnesses. Well, congratulations, Chief. You've caught the train wreckers, all right. And thanks to you, Mr. Kent. Well, hey, hey, where are you going? I've got to get back to town. My paper's waiting for the story. See you later, Chief. Well, Kent, come on in. Well, it's fine to see you back. You've certainly made good in a big way. Thanks, Mr. White. And to show you what I think of you, I'm going to start you right out on another assignment. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. That's the best news I could possibly hear. Now, wait till you do hear it, my boy. There are one or two things I want to ask you about first. Yes, sir? I know it sounds foolish, but all these rumors about the mysterious flying figure clad in a red cape and all that, do you know anything about this Superman? Superman, do I know anything about this Superman? Oh, Chief, what a silly question. All right, all right, let it go. Now, I want to talk to you about your next assignment. Just pull up your chair. Yes, sir. Oh, confounded, I told him not to disturb me. Send him your own. White. What the... Say, who is this? Kent, Kent, get over here. What's he mean? Oh, wait, wait. Come back here. Who was that man? Find him. Find him and trace him. Find him. Whose was the eerie voice calling Editor White on the phone? Who or what is the yellow mask? And can Clark Kent, without revealing his identity as Superman, solve the mystery in the newspaper office? Terrible, deadly danger threatens the Daily Planet. Superman has 24 hours' time. Tune in and follow the story. Now, don't forget, next time, the beginning of Superman's latest adventure. Tune in and don't miss it. Hey, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics Magazine.