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The Ghost Car
The Adventures of Superman Radio Serial - February, 1942The Superman cast is never far from a dude ranch, it seems, such as in this short arc, which is also the penultimate episode of the radio show’s initial incarnation. Recovering from the poisoning he received at the machinations of the Leopard Lady in the previous arc, Jimmy discovers a haunting “Ghost Car” terrorizing the remote dude ranch (which also happens to sit on mineral rich land)
The personal automobile, in 1942, had gone from an oddity to a luxury to a necessity in what was essentially the course of a generation. So it seems unlikely that something as quotidian as a car could have supernatural powers ascribed to it – surely any reasonable observer would rationalize that a “ghost car” would just be a car with a trick involved. Still, one of the undeniable traits of humanity is the ability to anthropomorphize and mysticize any inanimate object – particularly mechanical items which seem to pulse with their own life force, which is why fiction in general seems filled with haunted telephones, typewriters, and the like…
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