Joins us as we celebrate Superman’s 80th anniversary with the Adventures of Superman radio series. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Man of Steel first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938. The following year, the newspaper comic strip began and four audition radio programs were prepared to sell Superman as a radio series. When Superman was first heard on radio less than two years after the comic book appearance, the character took on an added dimension with Bud Collyer in the title role. During World War II and the post-war years, the juvenile adventure radio serial, sponsored by Kellogg’s Pep, was a huge success, with many listeners following the quest for “truth and justice”
Superman 3 Threat to the Planet Building.
