American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Flying, as the earliest dream of mankind, is also an important distinction between ordinary people and superheroes in the comic book "Superman".

Throughout the ages, in various myths and legends, people's desire for flying can be seen to a greater or lesser extent.

It is conceivable how excited readers were when they saw Superman flying in the newspaper.

For a time, the Courier newspaper office was filled with letters from readers in New York City.

"I strongly recommend that Superman be serialized with more content. After reading Superman, I have no interest in other comics serialized in newspapers..."

"Regarding whether the character 'Luthor' will appear again, I think it is impossible to kill him so easily with a spaceship explosion alone. I guess such an evil guy will bring great difficulties to Superman in the future plot. Perhaps the screenwriter should try to give 'Luthor' some abilities to fight against Superman's power..."

"Great, really great, I can't imagine how excited Superman was when he flew up..."

"...He is not Superman, he is a god, the reincarnation of Hercules and Icarus. The cape behind Superman is the wings of Icarus... ”

“I like the comic book “Superman” so much that I even collected all the comic plots serialized in the “Courier” and read them over and over again.”

“Why don’t you print more? There is no “Courier” in my area. In order to read “Superman”, I have to buy the newspaper at double the price, but I can’t say that I think the comic book is worth the price.”

“Too slow, too slow. Why can’t the “Courier” be serialized every day like other newspapers?”

“In the real world, does the ability to be invisible also exist, just like a chameleon?”

From the content of the readers’ letters, the influence of “Superman” is slowly spreading, and many people who were not originally in the area where “Courier” was distributed have also begun to know the story about Superman.

“Little John, I need you to pick out some of these readers’ letters and publish them in the next issue of the newspaper as a review of the serialized “Superman”...”

Putting down the letter in his hand, Colin instructed Little John.

As the popularity of comics grew, the news coverage in the Courier became less and less, and most of the pages of the newspaper were used for the serialization of Superman. Nowadays, when you open a copy of the Courier, 70 to 80 percent of the pages are serialized Superman comic plots.

For this reason, Old John even went to Colin to remind him that such an approach might cause dissatisfaction and protests from newspaper professionals.

Therefore, in order to shut these people up, Colin specially arranged for Little John to select some readers' letters and give them to Old John to layout them in the newspaper.

In this way, it not only ensured that the serialized Superman comics in the Courier were not affected, but also shut up those so-called professionals.

After all, they only protested that there were too few words in the newspaper, and there was no requirement that the content published must be news reports.

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[Ability - Flight (Black Iron)]

[Ability description: At first, Superman could only easily jump over a skyscraper. As the plot of the comics developed, he had the ability to fly and could fly at will. 】

【Ability - Invisibility】

【Ability Description: Superman has the ability to hide his body and not be discovered. 】

The influence of the "Superman" comic is not only reflected in the popularity of the newspaper.

It also affects Colin himself.

With the publication of the latest issue of the comic, the flying ability and invisibility of Superman in the "Black Iron Mark" are also unlocked.

In other words, Colin also simultaneously obtains the flying and invisibility abilities of Superman in the comic.

"Sure enough, in this world, all the superpowers I have obtained will be weakened."

In the positive world, Colin tried the ability he had just unlocked, and a clear expression appeared on his face.

Similar to the "Super Strength", the newly unlocked "Flight" and "Invisibility" also suffered the same degree of reduction. It feels as if someone has added a thick layer of armor to Colin to suppress all his abilities. This sense of suppression is not obvious in his daily life, but once it involves the use of abilities, it becomes particularly strong.

If, in the anti-world, Colin can easily lift a car with his [super strength] without any sense of effort. In the world of the Great Depression, his [super strength] was weakened to the point where he could only simply lift a refrigerator, and as for his [flying] ability, it was suppressed to a height of only seven or eight meters.

Under such suppression, although Colin still gained some superhuman power, he was far less free than in the anti-world.

"So, what is the reason for this suppression?"

"What kind of connection exists between the positive world and the anti-world?"

Controlling his body to float to two or three meters in the air, looking at his looming arms, Colin thought about the connection between the two worlds in his mind.

Unfortunately, the lack of clues prevented him from inferring more from it.

He could only vaguely judge from the gap in [belief] and the suppression of ability that the existence of the positive world was quite important.

...

"Woo~"

The wind whistled past his body. Feeling the whistling sound of the wind and the rapidly receding scenery around him, Colin couldn't help but cheer to vent his excitement at the moment.

The simple floating in the positive world could not satisfy his desire to fly after all.

Therefore, as soon as he returned to the anti-world, Colin took advantage of the night to find a deserted place and used [Invisibility] to eliminate his traces, and then began to try the ability of [Flying].

At first, he was very careful, but as the [Flying] altitude increased, under the protection of [Invisibility], Colin gradually became bolder.

The description of the flying principle in the "Superman" comics is because the gravity of Krypton, where Superman was born, is different from the gravity of the earth, so he is born with a different biological position from the earthlings, which leads to him being freed from the constraints of Krypton's gravity after coming to the earth. Living in the relatively smaller gravity environment of the earth than Krypton, he became more "light" and thus gained the ability to fly.

Before, this kind of background setting in comics only appeared in the world view of comics.

When Colin unlocked the [Flying] ability in [Black Iron Seal], the setting that originally existed only in the comic world seemed to also work on him.

Under the unlocking of the [Flying] ability, Colin seemed to have gained some biological stance of Superman and could easily fly.

…

"Warning, UFO found! Warning, UFO found!"

"Radar system activated, meter-wave radar did not find the target, passive radar scanned a suspected target, zoomed in..."

"Warning, the target is rising rapidly and is approaching the barrier warning line..."

Just as Colin was experiencing the charm of flying.

On the other side, in the biological and technological research base underground in the Hydra Building in New York, a rapid alarm suddenly sounded.