Shipping magnate Buxon Bullin! Adviser to the president Starch Whiteshirt! One Man Band Jacob Kurtzbern! These are the three masks worn by the masked defender known as Athletic! From the Golden Age of Radio comes this little heard gem!
Unearthed after generations of surprisingly careful storage, these programs can now be heard for the first time since their original broadcasts. Never known beyond the short reach of Cairo Illinois' upstart WSMS, these programs were found on original shellac discs in the rare books collection of Northern Illinois University. Their creator / producer / star, immigrant former street performer Gene Sadek, bequeathed them to the school where he had begun teaching shortly before his miserable death in anonymity. The first episode, heavy on exposition, short on action, incredibly amateurish in production and lacking any of the songs that made the show so popular in the downstate region, debuted Aug 1938, just weeks after the first published appearance of Superman and a full year before the start of World War Two. Listen for the signing FDR! CLICK ON IMAGE BELOW TO GO TO OUR "RADIO" PAGE. THEN CHOOSE THE CENTER DIAL TO HARKEN BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO AND HEAR THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF ATHLETIC, 1938!!!