- A man aboard a ship to Metropolis is smuggling something valuable into the country, but when one of his partner's henchmen shows up to help him get the item through customs, the passenger kills the other man. The passenger then dresses up as a woman, and, in an attempt to give his partner the slip, he gives Jimmy, who is at the dock to interview an actress, an empty box and tells him to give it to the men who are waiting or him. When Jimmy is kidnapped by the men, Superman must save him--but in order to do that, he first must figure out why he was kidnapped, solve the murder, track down the passenger, find out what is being smuggled, and find the passenger's partner.—Bill Koenig
- Synopsis - Double Trouble Cruise ship docks, unloads passengers while a man encounters another forcibly trying to enter his suite, he lets him in, words are exchanged, the man occupying the suite knocks out the man entering, he disguises himself as a woman. Checking through customs, he calls an innocent Jim Olsen over to accept a small parcel, to be delivered to the nearby ambulance, claiming it is serum for the doctor on board. The disguised person feigns an injured ankle claiming to be in a hurry to catch her train. Jim goes to the ambulance asking for the doctor, the henchman tells Jim he is inside and sticks a pistol in his back ordering him in while Lois witnesses the ordeal from the customs platform. This is the last we see of Lois. Jim is forced to a Dr. Albrecht's office, who opens the parcel with protective gloves, finding it empty. The phone rings informing Albrecht the man found in the state room is dead. The henchman from the back of the ambulance forces Jim into a secret room in Albrecht's office. Clark visits Henderson, and things don't look good for Jim, the man dead in the state room was a confidence man named Fisher. The ambulance was rented, fake name on it, and has disappeared. No telling where Olsen might be. The woman in disguise boarded the boat in Germany, did not speak to anyone while on board, cleared customs, and vanished. Clark figures she was to meet up with her associates at docking, but double crossed them, sending Jim instead. Henderson receives a call the passport the man/woman used was a forgery. Clark says the woman is the only clue that can lead them to Jim. The set of fingerprints on shipboard were male prints and the ambulance driver and henchman were looking for a male passenger, not a female, explaining why they didn't pick up the woman at customs. The fingerprints of the man/woman passenger were distorted from the wire service from Germany, and there is no service until tomorrow, per Henderson to Clark. The fingerprints from the ship Clark is looking at are as clear as can be, but fingerprint man Jake says there is no identification to the owner of the prints. Clark changes to Superman, crosses the ocean to Germany, meets his friend Col. Jack Redding. The Colonel pulls the file on the man's fingerprints, identifies Fisher, through the fingerprints on file in the Army office. Dr. Schumann appears to answer questions about von Klaben, saying he was dismissed two weeks ago. Clark says von Klaben was to be escorted from the ship in the U.S. by Fisher and to meet with associates there. Schumann can't answer any more questions and exits. Clark says Schumann is a dead-ringer for Fisher, an identical twin brother. Meeting with Major Lee, Clark asks about anything missing of great value and easily transportable in the last two weeks. Major Lee says radium is the only thing of great value, locked in the safe, where they go as Schumann closes the safe door locking them inside. Clark knows it was Schumann and gets them out of the locked safe. The Colonel says Schumann can't get far on the base. Superman heads back to the States, to Metropolis, Henderson's office, where he admits to an assist from Superman getting Schumann to confess to the stealing of the radium in a pair of earrings carried by the woman von Klaben became. There picking up Albrecht tonight per Henderson and Clark intends to be there. Superman takes off from the alley, goes to the train von Klaben is on, knocks him out, finds the earrings in lead, takes von Klaben for a trip East, he tells the porter. Superman bursts into Albrecht's office where the doctor and henchman are trying to escape, Albrecht shoots at Superman, tosses the henchman aside, and rescues Olsen from the secret closet just as Henderson arrests the perpetrators. Jim is glad to be rescued by Superman, once again.
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