Creator UncleSporkums notes (2025): "I've been a Superman fan for as long as I've been an actor. Since I was a little boy. From when I was on stage at a school assembly getting my first taste of an audience reaction, I was watching the mighty deeds of the Man of Steel on those old, faded public domain video tapes. As I grew to maturity, my affection for Superman in media stayed just as strong as I followed him in other media from comics, to television to feature films. His boundless determination to right wrongs stayed just as fresh as when I had first seen him in action. Needless to say, when I stumbled upon the K-Metal story about 15 years ago, I was shocked! 'WHAT?! Superman was going to have a Kryptonite-like weakness THIS early? And what's more, he was going to reveal his secret identity to Lois Lane?!' Not only was I surprised, I was enthralled. The fine folks at Superman Through the Ages! were restoring it! ... What a thrill! " ... [an] idea germinated in my mind.. What if people couldn't just see this story, but HEAR it as well? The actor portion of my brain went into overdrive. Of course! The brilliant theater of the mind of the classic Superman radio show performing the K-Metal story as though it were recorded back in the day! After a few years of tinkering with the concept, I finally got started in earnest. I homaged Bud Collyer's classic vocal distinction for both the Clark and Superman identities, utilized the ElevenLabs voice generation system to recreate Joan Alexander's Lois Lane, guiding the voice myself with Joan's usual "Continental" accent, and used my tried and true stereotypical "Gangster" voices for Rocks Gordon and his gang; as well as keeping it fast and furious for the machine gun cadenced Editor Perry White. "I also tried to stay true to the radio conventions of the time, i.e. characters' dialogue sometimes naturally overlapping, and the actors actually walking away from the microphone to imitate characters who were some distance away. I even included two fictional commercials for a sponsored breakfast cereal, albeit completely taking it seriously. No winking at the audience with a critical post-modern eye. This was to be a sincere tribute to a bygone era. "In short, I hope fellow Superfans will enjoy this labor of love with the same passion as I enjoyed making it." |