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SUPERMAN
■ Now for the first time, the newest hero of the air comes to you as a thrilling story. Read the daring exploits of Clark Kent, Superman, each month on this page and tune in the Superman broadcasts on stations coast to coast
THE planet Krypton was doomed! Jorel, Krypton's greatest scientist knew that. Feverishly he worked to perfect the rocket ship that would carry his family to Earth. But he was too late! As he stood there beside his laboratory, he saw the sky flame into a fiery red. The ground trembled and wide fissures divided forests and fields. Huge mountains crumbled and fell. Jorel hastily took Kal-el, his infant son, from the arms of his mother. He placed the sleeping boy carefully in the model of his space ship, swiftly swung the metal door into place and set the controls.
The tiny rocket-ship roared into the uncharted heavens just as the mighty planet of Krypton exploded into hundreds of thousands of glow
ing fragments. Glittering stars to remain forever in the night sky! Through the far-flung darkness of space, the ship hurled millions of miles toward Earth.
Years later, the rocket reached the United States on Earth. It
landed, unharmed, in a desert. A bright moon lighted the lonely sandy wastes as the metal door, sealed years before, was opened from the inside. Into the atmosphere of his new planet stepped Kal-el. (Continued on page 63)
■ Superman, disguised as Clark Kent, became a cub reporter.
■ He took the girl gently in his arms and leaped into space.
■ Swooping down, he tore off the roof of the speeding street-car!
JANUARY, 1941
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