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file case, Jim.

All he usually keeps in there is his line.

Honestly, you'd think he'd file a copy before he went chasing off someplace.

Hello?

No, this is Lois.

I don't know where Clark is.

Okay, just a minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you. Bye.

Miss Lynn, do you feel all right? Oh, fine.

This is the craziest thing yet.

Then let's forget about it. We get into enough trouble under normal

circumstances. Well, this couldn't get us into any trouble.

That's what I said a lot of times. And then ten minutes later, Superman has to

snatch me from in front of a truck.

But this might lead to a story.

You know that flagpole sitter up on top of the Acme building?

Sure. He's been there 103 days.

Well, it's evidently affecting his mind. He keeps screaming that he's hanging

upside down.

This I have to see.

I hope we get there before he falls.

He can't really be upside down, can he?

Take it easy. Get a hold of yourself, man. You're all right.

Not to you. Yes, to you. Everything is all right to you. You're Superman.

You can hang in any direction. You won't mind.

Would you mind telling me what you're talking about?

Look, down there.

Everything is upside down.

I'm upside down. I'm falling.

Wait, wait. Look, I'll prove to you you're all right. Let go.

Let go?

That's right. Let go.

I'm here to catch you if anything should go wrong.

Oh, well, we all have to go sometime.

One, two.

Two and a half. Three.

There we go.

Oh, everything's all right.

Everything's right side up.

If I were you, I'd climb down and abandon this whole project.

Oh, no, no. I couldn't do that. I'm going to break the record. I'm going to

stay here.

Well, I can't force you. Good luck.

Clark, you missed it.

I did? What? The flagpole sitter on top of the acting building thought he was

upside down. And Superman... I know, I know, Jimmy. As a matter of fact, here's

the completed story for you right there.

But you weren't even in the office when I got the call. That's right, Lois, I

wasn't. I wasn't even in the building. That's why I happened to be in the

vicinity when Superman landed atop that flagpole.

I don't know how he does it.

One of these days, Mr. Kent.

Come in.

Well, Professor Pepperwinkle, how nice to see you, sir.

Well, I'm certainly glad you remember me.

Why, you're everybody's favorite professor.

Would you help me put this... Oh, sure.

Cheapers, you're not in the traveling salesman business, are you? No, Jimmy,

it looks to me like our professor has been inventing again. I'm afraid so, Mr.

Kent. And I need the advice of a friend.

Oh, you do?

Well, let's see. Last time it was a swimming pool without water for people

who couldn't swim.

Now, what is it this time?

I call it the anti-magneto gravitational register.

I've experimented on myself with great success.

But, um, what does it do?

Actually, it produces waves which have a strange effect on the human inner ear.

Oh, you mean the balancing mechanism like the semicircular canals.

Exactly.

It took me three years to invent this.

And I don't have the slightest idea what it's good for.

Well, maybe if you gave us a demonstration, we might come up with a

suggestion. Oh, yes, that would be nice.

I'll show you how it works.

Now, you see that marble?

Cheap as a science fiction pinball machine.

Oh, not quite, Jimmy.

That marble has secret chemical properties.

Now, I'll show you how it works.

Watch what happens when I send the marble on its way.

Help!

I'm upside down!

Everything's upside down!

I'm falling, but I'm not landing anywhere!

Well, of course, there's merely a psychological effect induced through the

nervous system. Professor, I think you'd better turn us around again.

Well, that's one of the problems. I haven't quite perfected the reverse

mechanism. What?

It works eventually, all right.

Now, let's see.

Professor Pepperwinkle was just demonstrating his latest invention.

Professor Pepperwinkle.

But I was standing on my head.

I mean my feet.

Only my head was where my feet should have been.

Yes, it did seem like that, didn't it?

Now, what did you want to see me about?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Just let me get out of this crazy place.

Did you get any ideas?

What do you think I should do with it? There's a fire axe down the hall. I'll

go and get it. Now, wait a minute, Jimmy. You can't just smash up three

years' work like that.

Professor, whatever possessed you to spend all that time inventing a machine

to turn people upside down?

Oh, I wanted to be the first.

Professor, were you experimenting anywhere in the vicinity of the Acme

building today?

Well, yes, I was. I directed the machine straight up where no one would be

affected.

Clark, the flagpole sitter.

I don't understand.

Never mind, Professor.

I suggest you take your gadget home and don't use it again until you let us

think about it a little bit.

All right.

Well,

I hope I haven't troubled you nice people.

Professor, we enjoyed every nerve-wracking moment of it.

Hey, Carney, what's the matter? You look like you've been through a spook house,

and the spooks was real.

I feel worse than I look.

It was upside down.

All of us.

Hanging there by our toes.

What are you talking about? Are you crazy or something?

Yeah, I'm crazy.

I've been to a nut house.

The Daily Planet.

What, the newspaper?

Yeah. You know the articles they've been writing about crooked cannibals?

Well, I went there to warn them to lay off.

What do they expect us to do, run legitimate?

We got to leave that to the honest carnival operators.

Anyway, the minute I walked in the door, there I was walking on the ceiling.

Maybe you've been out in the sun too long, huh, Connie?

All right, wise guy. It should happen to you once.

But, boss, it ain't possible.

It ain't, huh?

This guy's got a machine, see?

It works with a marble.

Marbles, huh? Are you sure you got all of yours?

I tell you, it's the truth.

Just think, if there really was a gimmick like that, well, we could do

with it.

Like what?

Like what?

Like, for instance, we've been trying to plan a bank job for a long time, right?

Hmm. So we walk into a bank.

Police, people, everything.

And bingo, we flip the joint upside down.

In a panic, we steal everything and beat it.

You, you, you got it.

I'm surprised my own brain didn't think of that.

Yeah, I think your brain is suffering from acute attunations because there

just ain't no such machine.

There ain't, huh?

What was it now?

Professor... Pepperwinkle, that's it. You wait here. I gotta make a phone

call.

Professor Pepperwinkle?

This is Cornelius J. Oliver.

Never mind that.

I know about that machine of yours.

Oh, sure, but I know a way to use it.

Oh, not on the telephone.

I tell you what.

You bring all your junk to the carnival at 6th and L.

Ask for me, and I'll lay it all out for you then.

Swell. But, Professor, kind of keep it quiet till we make a deal, okay?

Oh, Clark, I just talked to the professor on the phone. He's got some

wonderful news.

Not another invention, I hope.

Same invention, but somebody wants to buy it from him. What in the world for?

Well, he doesn't know yet, but he will by tomorrow morning. I said Jimmy and

I'd stop by to see what it's all about.

Why can't the professor invent something practical, like the better mousetrap or

something? Not him. He'd try to invent the better mouse first.

What could it possibly be used for?

these little gizmos for, Pop?

Well, you said to bring everything.

Those are remote control units.

Remote control?

You mean you can put these little ones somewhere far away and make them work

from this big one? Yes. A stroke of genius.

If I do say so myself. Remote control, yeah.

I think you're both nuts.

My partner here is one of them skeptical characters.

You got the proof to him it works.

Listen, if this thing can turn me upside down, I'll eat my hat.

Naturally.

Are you ready? Go ahead.

You were right, Yo-Yo.

It don't work. What do you mean it don't work? I'm avoided.

Hey, how about this?

Okay, Pop.

Let us down now.

There you are.

You see?

Don't bother you at all once you get used to it.

Yeah, but if you're not used to it... That's the whole idea.

Pardon me, but what exactly is the whole idea?

Well, the idea, Pop, is to make people happy.

That's why me and Yo-Yo run this carnival. Not to make money.

Just to make people happy. Sure, money is the last thing we ever think about,

just before we go to sleep.

Always making with the jokes.

You see, Pop, we got six or seven carnivals running right around this

town. Of course, I see.

You think people would actually enjoy being turned upside down, like those

loop-de-loops.

You got it, Pop.

We could put one of these gizmos here in each Connie, and you could run the whole

setup from right in here.

Nothing I like better than making people happy.

Well, Pop, you made Connie and me very happy already.

You better run along, Pop. But be sure and be back at nine tomorrow morning.

We ought to have everything set up then for a test run.

It's been a great pleasure meeting both of you, and I'm sure our association

will be rewarding. No doubt about it, Pop.

No doubt about it.

Well, see you in the morning, huh? Yeah, breakin' early, breakin' early. Good

night. Good night, Pop.

I've seen a lot of squares, but this one takes the cake.

Hey, Connie, what was all that chatter about them remote control boxes?

My brain is making up for lost time.

Now, the whole thing depends on timing.

There's the bank, see?

Inside, there's no trouble.

But making the getaway, that's another problem.

Yeah, well, getting away is always a problem.

This time it's a sitch.

We figure the escape route, time it to the second, then plant these little

boxes along the way.

Ah, I get it. And anybody following you gets flipped upside down, right?

Not using the old head, huh?

Hey, boss, you're a dyed-in-the-wool genius.

Well, I gotta admit it.

I'm a genius.

Five blocks from the bank.

And this ought to be a good spot to plant the first one. You know, Connie,

this is going to be like stealing candy from the First National Bank.

Yeah, right there.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, we got six more to plant.

Then we gotta time the route.

Well, figure he entered the bank at exactly 10.30.

Yeah, 10.30.

Just make sure the box goes off exactly two minutes later, 10.32.

It'll go off, don't worry.

Okay, let's go.

Oh, I can hardly wait to start the machine.

Oh, I do hope the people enjoy it.

Don't worry, Pop. They won't know what hit them. But what I don't understand is

why the first one has to go at exactly 10.32.

Look, Pop, I've been in the carny business all my life. I know what I'm

doing, okay?

Oh, of course, Mr. Yo-Yo. Anything you say.

Oh, I just hope it's a success.

Don't worry. It's going to be a success.

Don't worry about it.

And?

Yes, Chief, what is it?

Where's Lois and that boy wonder of journalism? I want them immediately.

Oh, they stopped by to see the professor, Chief.

I'll call them up and try and get them to hustle.

Do that.

And ask them if they'd mind squeezing in a little work between visiting hours.

I don't get it, Chief. I called the professor.

No one's there.

No one answered the phone.

We'll call him right back and ask him why he's not at home.

Yeah.

Get on your mark, Pop.

Three minutes to go.

Whenever you give the signal, Mr. Yo-Yo.

Professor! Professor Braywicko!

Whatever you're selling, we don't want any.

Oh, we're not selling anything, sir. We're looking for the professor. Just in

time. Okay, you might as well sit down and watch. I guess there's no harm.

You, get back to the gizmo. Yes, yes, of course, of course.

We got your note. You were coming here, professor.

Okay, Pop, 90 seconds to go. Get ready.

What's all this about, sir?

Oh, a delightful idea.

Mr. Yo-Yo and his friends have planted my remote control boxes in six different

carnivals in town.

They have upside-down rooms and that sort of thing.

Okay, Pop, now cut the gab, will you? You got 60 seconds.

Wait a minute, Professor.

Mr. Kenda's writing some carnival articles, and this is the only one in

town.

But Mr. Yo-Yo said that they own... Don't interfere, lady, will you?

We'll interfere if we feel like it.

Of course, we don't feel like it. You don't waste much time, do you? Got no

time to waste.

All right, you two, sit down where I can keep an eye on you.

This is outrageous.

I refuse to cooperate until you tell me the meaning of this.

You cooperate, Professor, unless you want your little friends here to get

hurt.

Jeepers. Why do we have to live in the age of invention?

I'm afraid there's an evil purpose for even the best of inventions.

Okay, Pop.

10-32.

Hit it.

Okay, Pop, get set to hit number two.

At least you could tell us what's happening.

Lady, if nothing went wrong, we just stole a million bucks.

Okay, Pop.

10-40. Hit number two.

That was the last one. You can shut the machine off now, Pop.

Connie ought to be here in a couple of minutes.

We're sorry, but we couldn't wait. Let's face it, kid.

You're the only ones who can identify us. Means you can't afford to let us go,

right?

That's it, lady.

It's my fault. I got you into this.

We're not blaming you, Professor.

Jeepers, if someone only knew we were here.

I'm afraid even Superman couldn't find us.

Not a chance, lady. Not a chance.

It's okay. Go back and sit down now.

Go on.

If it hadn't actually happened to me, I'd say you were all crazy.

All right. Thank you very much.

I've got your statements. Go on home.

Can't my head still spin him?

Have you ever driven a car down the street and suddenly found yourself

upside down?

No, Bill, I can't say as I have, but I had much the same experience in my own

office.

Obviously, it's the professor's machine that's at the bottom of all this.

It doesn't seem possible that goofy little man could be crooked.

I don't believe he is either. I think somebody's just using him.

And that somebody's making an absolute fool of the entire police department.

I know, but the important thing is that these people are dangerous. Now, we know

they have the professor.

The odds are two to one they've got Jimmy and Lois, too.

And there's nothing we can do about it. Oh, there must be some connection.

Wait a minute. Do you remember I told you about that fellow that burst in the

office? So all we have to do is locate a man who could be anybody, anyplace.

Isn't there something you can remember about him?

No, things were a little confused at that point. We were upside down,

remember? Well, wait a minute. There was one thing.

The first thing he yelled was, Hey, Rube.

Hey, Kent, that could be the answer.

Whenever there's trouble around a carnival or circus, that's the signal

for help.

That's right, and there's a carnival playing in the town.

Well, come on. It's worth a try. You go ahead, Bill. I'd like to go to the paper

if I may. All right.

I'll see you later. Right.

South America, here we come.

Yeah, after we get rid of them.

What'd you say?

Oh, let them talk.

They ain't got much time left.

Good. Well, it's nice to have things back to normal.

If there ever was a nick of time, Superman, that was it.

That gives me an idea.

A machine to make time stand absolutely still. Now, just a moment, Professor.

No more machines, please.

You know, this calls for a celebration.

I want to invite all of you and Mr. Kent to my house for dinner.

Mom's cooking something special for dessert.

Sounds good, Jim. What is it?

Pineapple upside-down cake.

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Superman is based on the original character appearing in Superman

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