Billy Nelson

Bat returns to Dodge City on the stage with the lovely Nellie Wright hoping to earn a star. He quickly ends up in a gun fight and learns Nellie is part of an outlaw gang but she wants out. Bat soon finds himself a prisoner of the gang.

Police Inspector Henderson's son, Ray, has an unusual hobby: collecting all sorts of noises and sounds on his tape recording machine. Ray's hobby sets off an exciting sequence of events in, "The Talking Clue." By accident young Ray's recorder picks up the sounds of Inspector Henderson's office safe being opened and two crooks, Muscles McGurk and Claude James, are able to use this sound recording to their advantage. The vault subsequently yields data which enable McGurk and James to disconnect burglar alarms and commit robberies undetected. When Ray becomes their unwitting dupe and accessory, it appears he has double crossed his father and sold out to the underworld. However, through clever use of the sound machine and some quick thinking by Clark Kent, Superman is able to locate the hideout and foil McGurk's scheme.

"Mr. Kelso," an intricate mechanical brain, is used by crooks to plot crimes so perfect, so complete, that the police--and even Superman--are baffled in the drama, "The Machine That Could Plot Crimes." Then the mechanical marvel threatens to reveal that Clark Kent and Superman are identical persons. There's a thrilling climax as Superman in his turn uses the machine to plot the destruction of the evil doers.

A gangster's dog becomes resolutely attached to Superman and the dog's adoration threatens to reveal the truth that Clark Kent, the newspaper reporter, and Superman, the "Man of Steel," are one and the same, setting the stage for the exciting drama, "The Dog Who Knew Superman."

Bat Masterson is about to be gunned down during a poker game when he is saved by Ben Thompson. Thompson, wounded in the affray, is unable to carry out his intention to help his brother Billy break jail.