- Title: Adventures of Superman – Mystery of the Broken Statues
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Superman Sunday takes us back to the 1950s and a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. More of a Lois (Phyllis Coates) story than a Clark (George Reeves) or Superman story, “Mystery of the Broken Statues” features a classic story of something hidden within a sculpture desperately sought after by criminals. Both Lois and Clark get on to the story separately, but it’s Lois who immediately latches on to it learning pairs of men are visiting various stores and buying up the same cheap ceramic statutes only to smash them.
The story attempts to overly convolute things with some of the statues hiding a variety of everyday objects which spell out a code. One of the statues, purchased by Lois, holds a key. While Clark gets two of the men temporarily held at police headquarters there’s nothing to charge them with (after all, they paid for the statues they destroyed). However, once Lois is kidnapped things pick up and the police begin to take things more seriously. Superman makes his first, and only, appearance in the last five minutes preventing a plane with Lois from taking off. Later the police capture the leader of the gang having pulled the prize (another statue containing a priceless ruby inside) from a post office box.
