Atom Man vs. Superman 

1950 - 15 Chapters


Plot

Lex Luthor, the Atom Man, invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kryptonite can rob Superman of his powers, Luthor decides to create a synthetic Kryptonite and putters about obtaining the necessary ingredients: plutonium, radium and the undefined 'etc.' Luthor places the Kryptonite at the launching of a ship, with Superman in attendance. He is exposed to the Kryptonite and passes out. Superman is taken off in an ambulance driven by Luthor's henchmen, and he is now under the control of Luthor. Superman is placed in a device, a lever is pulled, and the Man of Steel vanishes into "The Empty Doom" (which bears a similarity to the Phantom Zone of the comic books). Most of chapter 7 is a repeat of the origin story from chapter 1 of Columbia's first "Superman" serial, and this serial also finds a way to work in stock footage from Ken Maynard's 1936 Avenging Waters (also directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet). 


Cast

Kirk Alyn as Superman/Clark Kent
Noel Neill as Lois Lane
Lyle Talbot as Lex Luthor/The Atom Man
Tommy Bond as Jimmy Olsen
Pierre Watkin as Perry White
Jack Ingram as Foster (dapper henchman)
Don C. Harvey as Albor (lab henchman)
Rusty Wescoatt as Carl (beefy henchman)
Terry Frost as Baer (medium henchman)
Wally West as Henchman Dorr
Paul Stader as 'Killer' Lawson
George Robotham as Earl, TV truck cameraman-driver


Chapter titles

Superman Flies Again
Atom Man Appears
Ablaze In The Sky
Superman Meets Atom Man
Atom Man Tricks Superman
Atom Man's Challenge
At The Mercy Of Atom Man
Into The Empty Doom
Superman Crashes Through
Atom Man's Heat Ray
Luthor's Strategy
Atom Man Strikes
Atom Man's Flying Saucers
Rocket Of Vengeance
Superman Saves The Universe