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blorb-el · 7 months

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trick or treat (dealer’s choice)! happy halloween and hope you have a nice day <3

clark whump enjoyers treat :,)

okay so. the backstory here is that in the first ever adaptation of superman, the radio show, in the first season. the name 'clark kent' is made up by the first people he rescues. the kents straight up don't exist. kal is a baby when jor puts him in the ship. but then he grows up on the way over. alone in a rocket ship for years and years.

a little fucked up! of course they don't like. explore this in any way whatsoever. there's no effects from this at all, radio clark is a pretty well adjusted guy for the 40s. and it gets retconned in the second season to the familiar backstory but. it itches my brain.....

439 words, gen, no particular warnings besides childhood isolation, rough draft because the voices aren't right for radio canon

“What were you like when you were a kid?” Dick asks.

Clark blinks, brushes the snow off the back of his neck. “Me? I… wasn’t really - I didn’t grow up on Krypton.”

Bruce looks at him oddly. “You mentioned you were an adult when you came here."

“I grew up on the flight,” Clark says, looking inside one of the stores. “It was - Krypton was very far away.”

There's silence for a few seconds as he scans the street below. When he looks back to Dick and Bruce, both are looking at him, abandoning the binoculars.

“How far?” Bruce says, and there’s a strange note in his voice, of caution. “How long did you - you grew up on the flight? How old were you when you left?”

He frowns, thinking back. “I would have been… about a year old, in Earth terms. I don’t…” his voice is a little hoarse. “I don’t really remember.”

“Superman,” Bruce says, and there’s an aborted movement in his arm, a moment where he seems to reach out and then think better of it. Clark isn’t sure if he wants him to think better of it.

An uncomfortable silence hangs over them, and he feels like he needs to say something, he just doesn’t know what. He turns back to the street, because it's easier to look there than at his friends. “I wasn’t awake for all of it. Or… it’s hard to explain. I was, but I wasn’t. It was something between sleeping and waking up.” He searches the faces below them carefully, looking at their freckles and scars, the smile at the corner of a young lady’s lip as she watches her two kids run ahead of her on the slushy sidewalk. “There were recordings. That’s how I learned the language.” One of the kids almost slips, and the mother reaches out, but the brother is there faster, grabbing onto his sister. Keeping her safe. “My father - I think he programmed the ship to somehow - there was a voice that I could ask questions to, and it would answer. It wasn’t a person, but it would answer, if it could find the answer in the radio waves it’d stored and translated. But it wasn’t... it shut itself down when I got here.”

He’s looking at the crowd. He doesn’t want to look away from the crowd, because there’s a tight feeling in his chest and he doesn’t know what he would see if he looks over at his friends. He doesn’t know what he would want to see. So he looks at the crowd, at the families. At all the people, together.

#thanks for the ask :^)#unbreakabledawn #my writing #otr taos #one day im going to return to the old timey radio husbands......i love them............................

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the-batacombs · 5 months

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JIMMY OLSEN MY BEST FRIEND JIMMY OLSEN

#he's BACK #taos otr #it's so good and I'm having so much fun #jimmy olsen

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supersiopao-blog · 2 years

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here at UL one of my alma mater! processing my OTR! waiting sucks, laging walang tao sa upuan, di ko alam kung san nagpupunta mga office staff.

kelangan mag hanap buhay sa ibang bansa, eguls dito sa pinas. wala konyas.

Lord kung will mo ako pagtrabahuin sa ibang bansa, magiging smooth ang lahat. ♥️

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sikmurangmaingay · 7 years

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My new pet Oca. haha

May bago akong nakilalang lalake, ok lang, matagal na nirereto sakin, pero syempre, since may jowa pa ako nun eh ayoko atupagin, itago nalang natin xa sa pangalang “Oca”, parang mabait naman ang gago eh, mejo nakakapikon lang kausap, akalain niyo, pinipilit pa talaga akong mag-video call, at dahil napilitan ako eh nag-video call naman ako, ayun, nasa bathtub pa talaga habang nagvi-vc kami. According nga sa aking bespren na lalake eh nangseseduce yun, kung sakaling nangseseduce xa, eh sorry xa, hindi ako na-seduce, better luck again next time, dahil hindi ang tulad nia ang makapagpapaseduce sa akin (mataas standards ko sa lalake) may hitsura naman ang loko, siguro 1-10 with 10 being the highest eh 4.. haha, bukod dun eh,ang hina pa pumick up, palabiro naman, eh kaso nakakapikon mga biro nia. Actually, we’re supposed to meet today, eh kaso ayoko kasi nga may otr ako diba, pero sinabi ko may “work” ako, since hindi ako madali magtiwala sa isang tao, In order for me to trust you, you first have to earn it, sabi ba naman sa akin eh “mag call-in sick ka nalang”, gulat ako nung sinabi nia yun sa akin, nyeta, ano xa sa buhay ko para mag call-in sick ako?!! call me suplada or maldita, pero mali yun eh! di mo pa ako kakilala tas sasabihan mo nako ng ganun???! kala mo naman kung ang gwapo gwapo

#kalokohan #kagaguhan #mga kagaguhan ko #mga kaechosan sa buhay ko #echos #echosera #echosero #kapunyetahan #punyeta

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know-that-iexist · 7 years

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Basahin niyo nalang

I went to UL last Tuesday just to see the environment there. Kinabahan ako actually. What if doon na ako? Sabi ko sa sarili ko while walking sa grounds nila. That moment, I wanna cry. I wanna run away. I wanna back out. Pilit kong sinasabi sa sarili. ‘Hindi ako dito. Hindi.’ Pero shit. Sinampal na ako nang katotohanan. Kahit anong pagconvince ko sa sarili ko, wala na eh. Ang bobo ko kasi. Heto, para malinawagan kayo. Minsanan na ang pagkwento ko. Ayaw ko na nang paulit ulit na tanong. Oo, bagsak ko yung major ko. Alam niyo ‘yun, bakit lagi nalang pagdating sa finals ako nadadali. Ano bang mali ko? Dahil sa pagkabagsak ko, nagugat ugat na ang suliranin ko. Alam ko sa sarili ko ngayon na, bagsak ako sa retention grade namin. Ayaw ko na sa head pa namin marinig na hindi na ako pwede sa ECE sa UPang dahil sa may bagsak ako at pati retention grade eh bagsak ako. Nakakaloko nga eh, before ko malaman grade ko, alam niyo ba? Ako. Ako yung umattend doon sa LEAD CAMP para ma-save yung org namin. Ang saya ko kasi nakatulong ako. Tapos na-tackle uli doon yung about sa retention grade at sense of belongingness. Putcha! Pangitain na pala yun. Isinantabi ko pa. Pagkauwi ko sa bahay, ginugunita ko lahat ng napulot kong aral, guidance, advices, empowerment doon sa LEAD CAMP. Then, bigla kong naisipan magopen ng portal kasabay nun eh pagupdate sa mga groupmates ko kung kumusta na project namin. SHIT! Hindi ko na kaya nakita ko. Alam mo 'yun, yung gumuho lahat ng plinano ko. Ang sakit sobra. 3 days kong tuloy tuloy umiyak. Hanggang sa natanong ni Papa yung grade ko. Iniyak ko sa harap nila. Ayaw kong magsinungaling. Putcha! Ang sakit sobra. Ang laki kong disappointment sa pamilya namin. Ako ba ang BLACK SHEEP? ITIGIL KO NA RAW KAHIBANGAN KO SA PANGARAP KONG 'TO. ANG SAKIT!! BUONG MUNDO KO, GUMUGUHO NA BUDDY. This time, sila naman daw pakinggan ko. Sasabog na yata ako buddy. Hindi ko na kaya. AYAW NILA YUNG OPTION NA LUMIPAT AKO NG IBANG SCHOOL PARA KUNIN ANG ECE DOON. Ang bobo ko kasi diba? Pabaya akong anak. Makasarili. As much as I want na itake tong kurso ko, sila pa ngayon nagdo- doubt sa akin. Hindi na nila ako susuportahan. Ang sakit buddy. Tortured na ako masyado. Kung pwede lang ibigay yung buhay ko Kay Auntie kong comatose ngayon, gagawin ko. Magvovolunteer ako katulad ng pinagvolunteer ko nung umattend ako ng lead camp, katulad ng pagvolunteer kong tumulong sa mga kaibigan ko sa oras na Hindi nila kayang magisa sa mga school stuffs rin. AYAW KO NA. ANO PANG SAYSAY NG BUHAY KO KUNG YUNG PLINANO KUNG UNA EH HINDI NA MATUTULOY? HINDI NA BA TALAGA MATUTULOY? ANG SAKIT DIN BUDDY KASI NGAYONG SUMMER, ITO YUNG TIME NA MAGKAKASAMA KAYONG MAGKAKAMAGANAK TAPOS ASANG ASA SILA sa akin. Alam mo 'yun buddy, isa pang burden yung mga tao sa paligid ko. Hindi man lang ako makasagot ng Maayos. Tipong ngiting pilosopo pa ang maibibigay ko sa kanila kasi NAKAKAHIYA AKO. ANG SAKIT NA SA MATA ANG UMIYAK NG ILANG LINGGO NA. Kaya pumunta ako ng UL kasi umaasa ako na paguwi ko sa bahay nung araw na 'yun eh, magbabago ang ihip ng hangin. Pumunta rin ako ng UPang buddy nung araw na 'yun. Kinuha ako ng Form para iprocess yung OTR ko kung sakaling kailanganin. Kumuha rin ako ng ibang CHECKLIST. Para akong wala sa sarili ko nung Tuesday. Daig ko pa ang adik. Lutang ang kaisipan ko. Ang baba na ng tingin ko sa sarili. Gumuho na lahat. Hindi ko na alam ang gagawin ko. Alam mo buddy, gustong gusto kong magopen up sa'yo kaso TAKOT NA TAKOT AKO. BAKA KAPAG MAY MASABI KA at ayaw ko na ulit marinig ang paulit ulit na sinasabi sa akin baka LALONG HINDI KO NA KAYANIN. BAKA TULUYAN NA AKONG MAGLAHO.

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blorb-el · 10 months

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Just saw your tags about Dick & Clark meeting first, where is this from?

the old time radio the adventures of superman show from the 1940s! unfortunately most of the serial was lost - we only have episode 2, 4, and 5, out of a 12 part serial. they are number 432-434 in this archive, if you wanna listen dick shows up in 433/part 4!

in brief, batman goes missing on a dangerous mission he refused to let dick in on, and dick, after trying everything, ends up writing a letter to superman asking for his help, and sends it to the planet. clark finds dick unconscious on a boat and rescues him, and they start working together to find bruce! and then the rest of the episodes are lost so we have to piece together the rest of the plot through secondhand sources :,)

#otr taos #< there's a more detailed listening guide and how-to in that tag on me blog if you're interested :^)#basically radioclark speedran becoming a stepdad #was thinking about it reading wf today...like there are a ton of versions of the first bruce and clark meeting #and many of them are suspicious/antagonistic etc.#but back then. bruce wasn't uhh. quite so BruceTM. and that first impression... superman protecting his lil robin...#from the first bruce trusted clark because he was there for dick. bc he helped dick when bruce was trapped.#and from then on they just. constantly save each others lives. and they go trout fishing together. and bruce is the only person clark tells #his identity. radio superbat is such a good flavor of superbat #it always makes me ;w;#the second episode which IS complete is batman and clark kent going to the amusement park together :) (to find kidnapped jimmy and dick)#also the radio show has a fun adaptation of dick's origin story where his parents are associated with the French Resistance #and that's why they were killed. bc it was contemporary!#old timey radio husbands

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blorb-el · 2 years

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@bruclarkweek day 6 100-word drabble! a little (canon compliant) remix of a conversation from old time radio The Adventures of Superman, The Secret Letter part 5.

(days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7)

Day 6 - Batman in Metropolis/Superman in Gotham

“He’s going to try to expose you again,” Bruce says, low and intent. “You could use another pair of eyes.”

Clark frowns, picking at the sandwich Bruce had insisted on ordering for him. “I’m sure you have other cases, Bruce. I can take care of myself.”

“I know,” Bruce says, a curious look in his eyes. “But I’d like to help.” He reaches out, and puts a hand over Clark’s.

It’s still strange to have someone he can trust. To have a partner. Clark gathers himself. “All right. Could you stay over tonight?”

Bruce smiles, warm and genuine. “Of course.”

#bruclarkweek2022 #superbat #my writing #old timey radio husbands #literally clark throws himself over bruce to protect him at the end of this ep...#radio bruce and his Normalness is like. inextricably linked in my head to the fact that gotham simply doesn't exist in otr taos.#hence batman in metropolis. yeah he lives there!!#i'm traveling at the moment so i don't have time to read everyone's entries but i'm so looking forward to it :>#otr taos

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blorb-el · 2 years

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radio clark is funny and compassionate and brilliant, and also has killed, conservatively, at least 352 people

#yes i think superman shouldn't kill. yes i love radio clark #he is efficient #those kills are over 3 episodes. out of 1000+ i have listened to #otr taos #golden age clark my beloved

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blorb-el · 2 years

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radio bruce, meanwhile, is basically a Normal Dude. i think this is because Gotham doesn’t exist. radio bruce lives in the Metropolis suburbs in a nice brick mansion with dick and alfred, solves cold cases as a hobby, goes trout fishing with clark, brings dick to humanitarian aid missions in postwar europe, drags clark to dinner because he’s worried clark hasn’t eaten enough, and absolutely loses his mind when dick is in danger. otherwise he is healthy and well adjusted

#otr superbat is supportive boyfriend 4 supportive boyfriend #bruce wayne #otr taos

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blorb-el · 2 years

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very happy to finally see someone who is as much mentally destroyed by flashpoint kal as me (it gets better I promise) and thanks to you I finally tried the superman radio show and... I don't know if I should thank you or curse you ? I just finished listening to the headless indian and the super sleuth and I fear this hyperfixation isn't going away soon...

But anyway, please pretty please could you give me some recs ? Is there an order I should listen them to or are they more stand alone stories ?

And continue to share your knowledge about superman and comics in general please it's fascinating!

flashpoint kal is literally something i'd daydream up and then go 'no no you're being too self indulgently angsty come on.' flashpoint beyond #3 was worth it all to see him finding a purpose :,)

old time radio the adventures of superman my beloved! (qualified). I've wanted to do a rec list for a while but I keep on getting hung up on how anti-Native/Indigenous a lot of the episodes are, especially in the first 'season.' That being said, I think most people are going to go into a radio show from the 40s aware of both the progressiveness of the show and the instances where it fails to reach the high standard it set for itself, particularly in the postwar era.

When I listened, I listened to The Clan of the Fiery Cross first, then went back to the beginning and just listened straight through. A very knowledgeable old time radio enthusiast did a podcast of every complete serial. 3 caveats here: 1. there are a few episodes missing or out of order but that's pretty easy to figure out, 2. the first 40 or so podcast episodes went missing (look those up on youtube or download those on archive.org here), and 3. while looking it up I only just now found out he's pretty far right-wing. He keeps it off his commentary though.

I think of OTR TAOS as 3.5 eras: the first before it moved to Mutual (40-42ish), the War years which are almost entirely lost, the postwar "S stands for sjw and sci-fi" era (my beloved) (Dec 45-48), and the short last series of half-hour standalone episodes. Here’s how stuff changed over time:

There’s a major paradigm shift between the first era and lost war serials where Superman operates first as an urban legend/cryptid, then switches to operating in the open and the world becomes aware he exists. Weird Justice Cryptid.

There’s a ‘soft’ retcon at some point in the lost serials where instead of growing up on the way to Earth and stepping out of the spaceship fully grown, as in the first episode of the first era, he gets to grow up with the Kents (who, fun fact, are from Iowa). His origin will be retold at several points.

During Looking for Kryptonite, the serial following the Atom Man saga, Clark makes the momentous decision to trust Bruce with his secret identity. This is a paradigm shift on the level of revealing his existence to the world.

In the switch to the last era of half hour standalone episodes, Bruce is then retconned out of existence (RIP). The half hour episodes may as well be a different canon, since many of them are adaptations of previous serials. They do have their own charm though.

There’s some smaller details that happen as ‘continuity’ within the postwar era, but all these shouldn’t trip a listener up much - Poco shows up, Perry gets elected Mayor of Metropolis, Lois gradually becomes more friendly to Clark, Unity House is built, etc.

Under the cut, a LONG list of highlights in order of airing, but tl;dr I’d say my top 10 were: the first storyline, The Black Pearl of Osiris, A Mystery for Superman, The Headless Indian, the entire Atom Man saga including Looking for Kryptonite, The Clan of the Fiery Cross, George Latimer Crooked Political Boss, Superman vs. Kryptonite, The Mystery of Meteor Island, and The Voice of Doom.

From the first era:

the first 21 episodes form a roughly continuous story which I'd recommend highly. this was the only era that they gave individual episode titles so I'll skip listing them all, just stop when you get to The Emerald of the Incas which is five episodes of pure YIKES. (to be fair the last episode is essentially "hey you moron, ask the Native Americans if perhaps they wrote down the statue's inscriptions instead of STEALING IT???" Debatable if it's worth slogging through the five episodes before that. )

Pick right back up again with Donelli's Protection Racket and Airplane Disaster, which were Jimmy Olsen’s first stories in any medium, and go a long way to explain why Jimmy loves Clark. The found family really kicks off here imo.

It's been a year or so since I listened to these but I recall Buffalo Hills, Happyland Amusement Park, Pillar of Fire at Grave's End, and The Yellow Mask and the Five Million Dollar Jewel Robbery were all pretty good, with the last featuring a familiar villain.

The Howling Coyote is a tossup, featuring maybe the one (1) multidimensional, memorable Native character in the whole run, but also more racism than usual. Give it a try if you like Westerns. It has one of my favorite side characters from the entire series, Tumbleweed Jones, a cowboy who took one look at Jimmy and turned to Clark and said i know you're his adopted dad but i want to also adopt him. can i. elder queer mentor vibes. gay little cowboy adopts gay little bowtied city kid and coparents with gay tired superhero. Howling Coyote goes right into...

The Black Pearl of Osiris, which is one of my favorites. Tumbleweed Jones comes to the big city. A decent mystery. Ridiculous side characters. Clark gets gaslit instead of gaslighting everyone else for once. Some racism as usual, though. Note that this one is slightly out of order on the podcast.

Last of the Clipper Ships is slow paced but good if you are in love with Jimmy (I was at this point) and also features an ABSURDLY good Moment in part 18 where they're in a dark room and Clark ventriloquizes a conversation between himself and Superman. It was one of those moments I felt like a kid listening because it blew my mind.

Dr. Roebling and the Voice Machine pays tribute to one of the original inspirations behind Superman with its machine that listens into crime - a fun look at what sci-fi looked like in 1941.

The Silver Arrow, a direct continuation on from the preceding The Crooked Oil Association (a thoroughly meh episode), is a delightful Western treasure hunt with Tumbleweed's return.

The Mechanical Man has an evil Nazi robot Superman gets to punch, what's not to love.

The first three parts of Lita, the Leopard Woman are really good Daily Planet family dynamics, the rest is skippable.

A Mystery for Superman is the last episode in this run, and you are either going to think the solution to the mystery is INCREDIBLY FUNNY or SO STUPID. I think the first. love this episode.

There are almost no complete serials from the war years, a consequence of the master recordings being stored on cheaper materials in order to preserve metal for the war effort. You’ve mentioned The Headless Indian, one of the best serials in the entire show, IMO. Amazing characters, great villain, and somehow less racist than the title would imply.

The first Batman/Superman team up and the first encounter with Kryptonite are from this era and they are both lost and I’m going to die mad about it.

Postwar era favorites:

Dr. Blythe’s Confidence Gang is the first surviving Batman serial; I would recommend it just on those grounds but it’s also a fun story where Batman and Clark Kent work together to clear Lois’s name of a false murder.

The Atom Man saga is the longest connected group of stories. It goes Meteor of Kryptonite, The Scarlet Widow, The Atom Man, and The Atom Man in Metropolis, and technically leads right into Looking for Kryptonite. Big recommendation; although Superman’s faced off against criminal genius type supervillains like the Laugher and the Yellow Mask, this is the first (and one of only two times) he comes up against an enemy with superpowers, and he shows his mettle and courage as he’s almost killed multiple times in this storyline.

Is There Another Superman, another Batman team up, is a little ridiculous but it does delight me because half their problems could be solved if Clark took a nap while Bruce watched him. This makes sense I promise.

The Radar Rocket is so bad it’s good. Terrible, terrible science. Superman fights moon pterodactyls and moon ants and also Poco is there. Also notable for being the only serial I can remember where Clark spends the majority of his time being Superman instead of Clark Kent.

Story of the Century is an adaptation of A Mystery for Superman, only this time Bruce gets to get in on the fun, and then Clark gets to turn the tables.

The Hate Mongers Organization is the opening salvo of the show’s antiracist campaign. From here on out, this will be the show’s major concern. This is followed by Al Vincent’s Corrupt Political Machine, a similar story which I also recommend, and then comes...

The Clan of the Fiery Cross. Justly famous, a fierce, pointed criticism of a real, present opinion in American society, and it deserves the praise it gets. Although folks coming to this serial from Superman Smashes the Klan may be disappointed to know that there’s never an explicit Superman as Immigrant storyline in this serial, it’s still devoted with a singleminded, refreshing intensity to making sure that the bigot is proven wrong at every turn, and showing the violence and hatred of the Klan is founded on hypocrisy. (ALSO READ SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN.)

The Super Sleuth is another delightful teamup with Batman, where a detective is convinced Clark Kent is Superman and annoys the hell out of him.

The Secret Menace Strikes Again returns to the justice and tolerance themes, this time with the corporate censorship of the Daily Planet, fearmongering, war profiteering, and the kidnapping of Perry White.

George Latimer, Crooked Political Boss, deals with violent antisemitism, Nativism, and the political machine. High recommendation, especially since Latimer will return.

The Dead Voice: Someone is blackmailing Robin. Furious, protective World’s Finest Coparents, Alfred gets to do something, and Dick gets a grandfather!

The Disappearance of Clark Kent - Superman takes a break from corruption on Earth to try to save a planetoid from destruction. A quintessential Superman Moment in here as he decides he has to do what he can to help despite the personal risk. The rest of the serial is bizarre sci-fi. It leads right into The Secret Letter, also recommended, in which Clark returns to Earth to try to reclaim the last will and testament he left for his friends before they open it and discover his identity. Another Batman appearance.

Drought in Freeville returns to corrupt politicans, addressing the tension between newly-returned veterans and people suspicious of and hostile to them. I liked it mostly as a historical document - if you like the political stories listen, if they’re not your cup of tea it’s skippable.

The Monkey Burglar - if you liked The Dead Voice, here is more Robin being threatened!

The Knights of the White Carnation - White supremacists try to destroy a high school basketball team because there are Catholics/immigrant children on it.

The Man Without a Face - international spy espionage featuring a surprise return from Herbert Caulkins, the investigator in The Super Sleuth, and an attempt to sabotage the World Peace Organization/UN.

The Mystery of the Lost Planet - This is Poco’s origin, meaning it’s a rewrite of one of the lost War serials. Possibly the funniest thing radio Clark Kent has ever done in his life in part 10.

Superman vs. Kryptonite - Another of my favorites. Spoiler alert, Superman does not win the fight vs Kryptonite. George Latimer returns, determined to get revenge on both Clark Kent and Superman, and runs steps ahead of Batman as Bruce frantically tries to figure out where Superman is and rescue him. Features a completely bonkers plot twist halfway through which I kind of love, and one of the most memorable ending sequences - I can see it as clearly as a movie.

The Secret Rocket - The only time Clark returns to the Kent farm, in a poignant moment (it’s been sold: the Kents are dead in this continuity). The remainder of the story is a little eh, but a fun core idea of how destructive Kryptonian technology could be in 1947.

The Ruler of Darkness - yet another political machine story, except in this one, Perry White has HAD ENOUGH and runs for Mayor himself. Cue many, many, many attempts to sabotage his campaign.

Batman’s Great Mystery - the mystery is that Batman has turned into a hatemongering bigot, and obviously Dick and Clark must team up to go “this isn’t you.” It isn’t him.

Mystery of the Stolen Costume - Someone’s robbed Clark Kent’s apartment and has found his secret closet with his spare costume. Bruce and Clark work together to try to save his identity.

The Skin Game - More bigots try to de-integrate a track and field team, explicitly because one of the athletes is Black. For reference, this serial was broadcast in 1948, Brown v Board of Education was decided in 1954.

The Mystery of Sleeping Beauty - completely ridiculous in terms of history and sci-fi, but it rolls right around into kind of charming, and plus Superman gets to fight and probably kill a whole bunch of Nazis. In an off-camera 1948 way.

The Mystery of Meteor Island - okay have you ever read/listened to/watched a Superman story where he gets owned by Kryptonite and thought idly to yourself, what if someone ELSE got owned by radiation poisoning? Well have I the radio serial for you. Batman and Robin story.

The Voice of Doom - the only other superpowered enemy in the series. A killer convict acquires some hypersonic voice power in a lab accident. A Batman team up, and also the return of the Scarlet Widow (even though she totally died earlier. Comics style retcon!)

The Mystery of the Letter - the most memorable Lois centric episode, she receives a letter from her sister Diana which brings her and Clark to Paris.

And finally, of the half hour standalone stories - after so long listening to the serials, I’d gotten used to their slower paced storylines, so this wasn’t my favorite format, but the pacing is probably more amenable to most listeners. I liked The Double Trouble, One Minute to Death, Death Rides the Roller Coaster, Mystery of the Mechanical Monster, and The Diamond of Death. The Mystery of the Walking Dead was also okay, but Clark was a bit of an ass in the first part of that one. These were oriented towards adults and were much darker in tone, hence the edgy titles.

Whew. Or as Jimmy would say, gleeps! Fellow otr taos enjoyers feel free to yell at me anytime about any of these serials, or sound off about your favorites.

#thanks for the ask :^)#listen the show went 10 years. im allowed to write a ridiculous amount about it #otr taos #bud collyer #clark kent #superman #episode guide #long post

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