Today in History - 1946

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Bud Collyer, later of TV's Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the radio series. His identity had been well guarded for years. Most people didn't have a clue as to the identity of Superman until a TIME magazine article about Collyer appeared in 1946.