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Beany Martin is the Daily Planet copyboy on radio's The Adventures of Superman. An adolescent with a strangled, adenoidal voice, Beany is the only staffer lower than Jimmy Olsen. In fact, Beany Martin often functioned as a fill-in for Jimmy (on Thursday, when Olsen's radio actor Jackie Kelk had a conflict), though the characters also appeared concurrently on other days.

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rdfs:label	Beany Martin
rdfs:comment	Beany Martin is the Daily Planet copyboy on radio's The Adventures of Superman. An adolescent with a strangled, adenoidal voice, Beany is the only staffer lower than Jimmy Olsen. In fact, Beany Martin often functioned as a fill-in for Jimmy (on Thursday, when Olsen's radio actor Jackie Kelk had a conflict), though the characters also appeared concurrently on other days.
dcterms:subject	Allies Radio Characters
Relatives	Joe Martin
Affiliation	Daily Planet
Performer	Jackson Beck
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Classification	human
abstract	Beany Martin is the Daily Planet copyboy on radio's The Adventures of Superman. An adolescent with a strangled, adenoidal voice, Beany is the only staffer lower than Jimmy Olsen. In fact, Beany Martin often functioned as a fill-in for Jimmy (on Thursday, when Olsen's radio actor Jackie Kelk had a conflict), though the characters also appeared concurrently on other days. Beany was primarily a minor comic relief character, used frequently to pass on messages or establish where other Planet staffers had gone. His role was usually only peripheral, but over the show's long run, however, a few exceptions occurred. These usually had Beany teaming up with Jimmy, or coming to Clark Kent for help with a problem. In the 1946 "Counterfeit Money" serial, Beany and Jimmy help young Mary infiltrate a counterfeit gang (although he bows out when he realizes one of the gang is a former neighbor who might spot Beany and blow their cover). In "The Secret of Meteor Island" storyline (1948), while still mostly on the sidelines, Beany is present with Jimmy when dying criminal "The Count" lurches forward, and it's Beany who takes the man to the hospital and passes on the story to Clark. Beany's most significant role occurred in the 1947 "Ruler of Darkness" storyline. Beany's older brother, Joe Martin, is running for mayor of Metropolis, and the Daily Planet is backing him to the hilt. The opposition use a smear campaign, and a tearful Beany comes to Perry White when the Martin brothers' father is falsely accused of being a bookie. The resulting fallout leads to Perry himself being drafted as the Metropolis' reform party candidate, and winning the subsequent election.

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