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Faster than a speeding bullet.

More powerful than a locomotive.

Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound.

Look, up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane.

It's Superman.

Yes, it's Superman. Strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with

powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers.

Bend steel in his bare hands.

And who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great

metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice,

and the American way.

And now, another exciting episode in The Adventures of Superman.

The Millers don't answer either?

Well, try the market. Surely someone will be there.

I'm ringing the market, Miss Lane, and I'm still ringing Mrs. Tasey, but no one

seems to answer in Clifton at all.

Well, I can't understand it.

The lines must be down.

The lines test clear. I get a ringing signal on every one of them, but no one

answers. It's very strange.

It certainly is.

Operator, please keep trying.

Do you want to hang up and let me call you back?

No, I'll hold on.

This is the strangest thing.

What's that?

Well, you've heard me mention Mrs. Tasey. Your nurse? Oh, yes.

Every year for my birthday, she sends me a little gingerbread man.

Well, that's cute.

I tried calling her to thank her for it, but she doesn't answer the phone.

Well, what's strange about that? She might be out.

Well, apparently everyone in Clifton is out. I tried calling the drugstore, the

market, the bank, the post office, and even some friends of Mrs. Tasey's, and

no one answers the phone.

Oh? No one answers.

It's very strange.

I can't understand it. Something must be wrong.

Don't get upset, Lois. Probably the lines are down. Well, that's what I

thought. But the operator at Havenhurst said they're not.

Hmm.

Look, Lois, it's only about an hour's drive up to Clifton. Why don't you take

a run up there?

Would you come with me? Sure. Hang up and let's go.

Never mind, operator.

What did you stop for? Look at that sign.

Someone trying to be funny.

Could be.

Where is everybody?

I don't know. Mrs. Tasey's house is just a little further. Keep going.

Lois.

Houses are empty.

Deserted. The stores, too. I just don't understand it.

Look. There's a house that isn't deserted.

There's something... Come on, Lois.

Doesn't seem to have been hurt.

It's not an old dog.

Who lives here?

This is Dr. Jessup's house. I used to come here when I was a little girl.

Oh.

What was that?

Someone moaned inside.

Clark.

It's Dr. Jessup.

His heart's still beating. See if you can find some water.

I'm already happy.

Top drawer.

That better, Doctor?

Yes, thank you.

I merely suffered a slight fainting spell.

A fainting spell, Doctor?

Yes.

A fainting spell.

Oh, thank you.

You're the Lane girl.

You're a newspaper reporter, I believe.

That's right.

And this is Clark Kent.

He's a reporter, too. We came down here to see you. Who sent for you?

Well, nobody.

That is, I tried to phone Mrs. Tasey, and when I... Take my advice.

Leave Clifton at once.

There's nothing here to interest the newspapers.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Take my word for it, and take my advice.

Leave Clifton at once.

Is that a warning, Dr. Jessup, or a threat?

It's good advice.

And now I have to see one of my patients, so... What patient?

The town's deserted.

Nobody answers the telephone. What's wrong here, Dr. Jessup? Well... Just

because someone chooses not to answer the telephone, it doesn't follow that

there's anything wrong.

But nobody... Please step aside. I must go to Miss Tasey's. Well, is she sick?

She might very well be dead.

I'm so glad to see you. I've been so worried about you. I couldn't get you by

phone, and Dr. Jessup said... Why, Lois, what are you doing here in Clifton?

Well, I was worried about you.

They're newspaper reporters, Matilda.

You didn't answer your phone. Nobody in Clifton answered the phone, so I got

Clark and... Oh, this is Clark Kent. I've told you about him. How do you do?

How do you do, Mrs. Tasey? I'm glad to see you're looking well.

Me? Always fine. Nothing's ever wrong with me.

Dr. Jessup led us to believe otherwise.

Well, at your time of life, Matilda, especially with that cough you had...

Cough?

Oh, yes, the cough.

Well, it's almost gone now, except when the fog's bad.

It's going to be bad tonight, Lois, so you'd better be gone before it comes in.

You know you always had a weak chest.

I? I'll fix you a nice cup of tea, you and Mr. Kent, and I'll give you some of

my blueberry muffins, and you can be on your way before dark.

That's an excellent idea, Matilda. Just a minute, Mrs. Tasey. Why are you trying

to get rid of us?

Why? I'm not trying to get rid of you. Yes, you are, and so is Dr.

Jessup. He practically ordered us to leave Clifton.

What's going on around here? Where are all the people?

I didn't see a soul on the streets.

The houses and the stores are all deserted.

It ain't so.

There's Peter Godfrey, the druggist, and his son Alvin, and they're still here.

Me and Dr.

Jessup and the... Hadn't you better see about the tea, Matilda?

Oh. Yes. Just a moment, Miss Taylor.

Who else were you about to say? Who else besides you four remained here in

Clifton? Why, uh, Doc Jessop's dog.

Is it a red setter?

Yes.

It's dead.

Ranger?

Dead?

He's under a hedge outside your door.

But what I want to know is where are all the other people? What's happened?

Closer to the ground.

What are you talking about?

You've got to tell me. Something terrible is going on in Clifton. I know

it. Now, Lois, you always were one to let your imagination run away with you.

Come on in and have your cup of tea.

You too, Mr. Kent.

Well, thank you, Mrs. Tasey. I'll be back later if I may. You go on in now,

Lois. Have a cup of tea and have a nice chat with Mrs. Tasey.

Where are you going?

We're going to have a look at Dr. Jessup's dog.

That is, if there are no objections, Doctor.

Curiosity once killed a cat, young man.

Was the cat too close to the ground, too?

Oh, Miss Daisy, you forgot your roses.

Clark, we're waiting for you.

Try to find out all you can, Lois. Well, naturally.

And don't drink any tea.

Why not?

Promise me.

But tell me, why not? Just promise me, please, Lois. Well, all right, Clark,

but honestly, I... All right, good.

I'll be right back.

Dead dogs just don't get up and walk away, Dr. Jessup.

I'm quite aware of that.

Therefore, someone must have taken it away.

Why? I can't imagine.

Maybe I can.

That dog was removed to keep anyone from finding out it had been gassed.

Gassed? That's right.

Poison gases are heavier than air, Doctor.

They lay close to the ground.

I don't know what you're talking about. I think you do.

I saw a gas mask in your desk.

Mrs. Tasey has one, too. So you were snooping, eh? Going through my desk.

Now, wait a minute. I ought to have you arrested. I will, too, unless you leave

Clifton at once.

Why don't you just cut out this act, Doctor?

Act? What act?

We both know what killed your dog and almost killed you, too.

The gas came in through that broken window.

It overpowered you before you could get your mask on.

Mr. Kent, I gave you some good advice before.

I know.

Get out of Clifton. Exactly.

And take Miss Lane with you.

Otherwise, I won't answer for the consequences.

Lose something?

I... Yeah.

A dead dog. Is that so? What kind of a dog might it be?

A red setter?

Yours? No, it belonged to Dr. Jessup.

Ranger dead?

That's too bad.

Doc thought a lot of that dog.

You a friend of Doc's?

I just met him today.

Oh, I'm Clark Kent, reporter at the Daily Planet.

Reporter, eh?

Glad to meet you, Mr. Kent.

Glad to meet you, sir.

My name's Peter Godfrey.

Own the drugstore across the street.

Here on business?

Didn't come on business.

Ain't much business in Clifton anymore.

Everybody's moved away except Doc Jessup, Miss Tasey, Alvin and me.

Alvin's my son.

I see.

That just leaves four of you. That's all. And after next week, Alvin and me

won't be here anymore.

Can't make a drugstore pay in a ghost town.

No, I suppose not. Well, it seems like a mighty pleasant place to me.

Just what made everybody move away?

The oyster beds died off. Oh.

And then the fogs. We have terrible fogs. Make a man feel awful sick.

Might even kill a dog, huh?

How's that?

I was wondering what killed Dr. Jessup's dog.

It wasn't old and there wasn't a mark on it.

Well, I wouldn't know.

Strange the way its body disappeared, too.

It was right over there just a moment ago.

It was, huh?

Say, I wonder if Alvin saw it and buried him.

Alvin's a very neat fellow. He takes after his mother, may she rest in peace.

I'll ask him.

Oh, Alvin!

This is my son Alvin, Mr. Kent.

Mr. Kent's a reporter on the Daily Planet.

Oh, how do you do, Mr. Kent? How do you do, Alvin?

Dr. Jess Obsetter died, Alvin.

Oh, that's too bad.

And the body disappeared just a little while ago from right there. Did you see

it, Alvin?

No. I've been in the back of the store working for the past hour or so.

Oh, by the way, Father, that prescription you were filling is all

dissolved. It'll spoil if you let it stand.

Oh, yes. So it will.

I'm glad to have met you, Mr. Kent. Glad to have met you, sir. Come in and see us

before you leave Clifton. Thank you. I will.

What were you shooting at, Miss Daisy?

A rabbit.

Now, Miss Daisy, who was it? A rabbit, I said.

And anyway, it ain't none of your business, Mr. Kent. We don't need your

help around here, and we don't need any newspaper stories. Now you listen to me.

The entire village has been deserted.

The people were driven away by poison gas, weren't they?

By some grotesque man who leaves huge footprints.

A murderer. I want to know who that murderer is, Miss Daisy.

Tell me.

Don't know.

You better tell... What is it? Lois.

Where's Lois?

Wasn't she here?

No. You mean you ain't seen her?

Not since I left her here. Where is she?

I thought she went to get you.

I was at Dr. Jessup's.

I came back by the road and I didn't see her.

Oh, my.

If she went the other way, where he is.

She was always such a headstrong girl.

Which other way?

Where he comes from. The sea.

Clark, you scared me.

Well, that makes us even.

What do you mean by going off on your own? Well, I like that. What am I

supposed to do, sit around and twiddle my thumbs while you go out and wrap up a

page-one story?

Oh.

What have you got here? Well, I don't know.

I saw where the sand was disturbed, and I started digging and found these.

Looks like a piece of drill core.

Drill core? What's that?

It's what a prospector brings up in his drill from underground.

Shows him what's down there.

You mean a prospector's been drilling here?

Somebody was.

Well, whoever it was, they didn't find what they were looking for.

Those things look worthless to me.

I'm not so sure.

The weight and the color.

Lois, I think I know what these are. And if I'm right, come on.

Clark, you're making mountains out of molehills, as usual. Now, you listen to

me, Lois. Now, Clark, don't be silly.

So you want me to go back to Metropolis, huh?

All right, so you go to Havenhurst and wait for me. That's just a few miles

away. So you can get the story and phone it into the office?

Once and for all, OSU, please try and understand I'm not interested in bylines

in the story.

Oh, no.

No, you can have the bylines. I'll split it with you, anything you want.

Thanks so much.

But you can't stay here by yourself. It's too dangerous.

You, afraid of a fly, my protector.

Huh, that's rich.

Will you please listen to me?

There's a murderer loose around here. Maybe more than one. Using poison gas.

And you're running away from it. Well, I'm not... I'm not running away from

anything. I'm trying to take the... I'm going to have it analyzed.

Well, why can't I go with you? Because I can go much faster by myself.

Oh.

I get it. Okay, Clark.

Run along.

Now, you will go to Havenhurst and wait.

I'll wait. In Havenhurst, you promise?

I promise.

Good girl.

Nothing.

Thank you.

Hold your hands. You're all through murdering folks now.

I'll take her. You get outside.

Is she all right?

I think I got her out in time.

I'll go back to the others.

Alvin Godfrey.

So that's who it is.

Get that mask off your face, Doc. You won't need it no more now.

But I don't understand. Why did he do this?

There's a deposit of hydrozyte in that cave. I just learned this in Washington.

What is this hydro... Hydrozyte. It's a rare mineral used in making the hydrogen

bomb. Oh.

This may be the largest deposit in the world. Worth millions.

Good heavens.

Why did you keep everything from me? Why didn't you let me help you?

We didn't want none of this to get in the papers, Lois. We thought we could

handle it all ourselves.

Reckon we were wrong, huh, Doc?

We'd all be dead by now if it hadn't been for Superman.

What's that?

The police. I stopped off and told them about this.

What am I doing? I've got to phone the story into the Daily Planet and find

poor Clark.

Will he ever be furious?

Bye, Mrs. Tasey. Bye, Lois. Goodbye, Doc.

Goodbye, Superman.

Goodbye, Miss Lane.

Mark, what in the world are you doing?

Just fixing this sign.

There.

Doesn't that look better?

Well, how did you know?

That Alvin Godfrey was the monster? That he and his father conspired to steal the

hydrazine deposits?

And that you just phoned the story into the planet?

Well, how did you know? You weren't there.

A little bird told me.

And if you're a good girl, someday I'll tell you who that little bird is. Now

move over.

I'll drive.