Our father wrote for the original Superman radio program, directed it, and acted in it back in the early 1940s. He invented Superman’s parents in the first authorized book, The Adventures of Superman, and he invented Kryptonite. He was a who’s who in radio and early television back in the 1940s and 50s. He wrote for the Roger’s show, Tom Mix, Terry and the pirate, and the Edge of Night on television.