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simonmagus · Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 15 Location: St. Petersburg, Fl

Hello fellow Super-hero fans,

Born in 1955 I just missed the great radio age and grew up watching The Adventures of Superman on TV and reading comics. I of course knew that Superman had a radio show but never thought I would ever get to hear the shows.

But of even more interest to me was that I had read that Batman and Robin guest starred on many episodes. So naturally when I joined this site I began searching for those episodes first.

To save fellow Batman fans the trouble I made a list here of every episode I could find that guest starred Batman and Robin together with Superman.

"The Mystery of the Wax Men" (warning the last episode of this 3 part story is missing. What can you do?)
"Dr. Bly's Confidence Gang"
"Looking for Kryptonite"
"The Story of the Century"
"The Monkey Burglar"
"Batman's Great Mystery"
"The Secret of Meteor Island"
"The Voice of Doom"

There may be more. I haven't heard the whole series yet. If I find any more I will post them here. My thanks to the creator of this site once again."

Old Time Radio fan
Simon Magus

crich70 · Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 316 Location: Monroe Wisconsin

Thanks Simon Magus. I had heard that he guest starred, but that since he wasn't bullet proof etc. like Superman that his character never did quite take off and create a spin off series.

glory77 · Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 30

Don't mean to nit-pick, but "The Mystery of the Wax Men" is actually a 12 part series. I've found 4, still looking for the rest.

simonmagus · Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 15 Location: St. Petersburg, Fl

glory77 · Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 30

I looked on Wikipedia for the episode, which directed me to a link of 'Robin in other media'. It mentions that Ronald Liss was the voice of Robin, but says nothing of who voiced Batman.

glory77 · Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 30

I've uploaded parts 2 & 3 of "Mystery of the Wax Men" using ftp, in the folder called 'glory77' if anyone wants to download. Hopefully Brad can add them to the Superman folder of shows. 4 down, only 8 more to find.

simonmagus · Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 15 Location: St. Petersburg, Fl

Harlow Wilcox · Joined: 02 Dec 2008 Posts: 115

Here is a useful site for everything having to do with Superman. Including a section with plot synopsis for the radio serial. I thought some of our friends at the forum here may want to check it out if you haven't already http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_Wiki

Brad · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:13 am Post subject:

Asaki · Joined: 03 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

Hi, thanks for the thread. I came across it through a search engine, and was wondering what episodes Batman and/or Robin were in.

I put this search into Google and I think I've found a few more episodes: site:www.supermanhomepage.com/radio Batman

(some of these may not be available or may be incomplete, I haven't checked yet)

(edit: Nevermind, it says they don't/can't review episodes that are unavailable, I guess that makes sense. "The Mystery of the Waxmen" is on their list of incomplete, so I guess we're out of luck.)

1946: Is There Another Superman?

1946: The Dead Voice

1946: The Secret Letter

1947: Superman Versus Kryptonite

1947: Pennies for Plunder

1948: The Mystery of the Stolen Costume

Brad · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:13 am Post subject:

simonmagus · Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 15 Location: St. Petersburg, Fl

Ok excellent, thanks for listing these extra shows. I see on the Superman archives all we have all 6 of these shows. So I'll listen to them and let you know for sure if Batman guest stars.

Thanks again
Simon Magus
(author of "The Shadow of Simon Magus" by Samuel Spulman-www.amazon.com)

Jimbo · Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 190 Location: Georgia, USA

The link below will give you reviews of most very Superman radio seria out there (with a very few exceptions) and includes a detailed storyline of every episode in the serial, plus trivia and personal views from the author. It's terrific.

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/radio/radio.php?topic=radio-reviews/radio-reviews

Jimbo · Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 190 Location: Georgia, USA

Batman also shows up for just one show in THE SUPER SLEUTH. Batman needs someone to impersonate him and uses Bruce Wayne/Batman.

I think that Batman is "the original" Batman (in The Adventures of Superman series anyway) Stacy Harris - who did a lot of Dragnet on radio and television.)

Sometimes on The Adventures of Superman, he played Batman, other times, it was someone else.

He's one of my favorite supporting actors in radio and TV.

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julia · Joined: 13 Feb 2013 Posts: 1

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THESHADOW · Joined: 28 Mar 2009 Posts: 7

Batman was portrayed on Superman by Matt Crowley

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Mike Hobart · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 217 Location: Australia

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The Superman serial is currently running on "The Golden Age of Radio" every Sunday on WBAI New York. They also let you listen to the show on their website for a week after each broadcast.
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