American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

"You are such a good man, sir."

No, I am not, kid.

Colin silently replied in his heart as he picked up the last piece of bread on the table with a newspaper and handed it to the ragged child in front of him.

From the beginning, his purpose of doing this was not pure.

Due to the limitations of printing technology, there will always be some defective products in the printing process of newspapers.

This point has become particularly obvious on the old rotary machine of the newspaper as the sales of the "Courier" increase.

In general, when such a situation occurs, Old John will manually adjust the rotary machine to prevent the continued printing of wrong newspapers.

But over time, the Courier newspaper still accumulated a large number of "waste newspapers". These newspapers with printing errors naturally cannot be sold as normal newspapers or sold to newsboys for distribution. Keeping them, in addition to taking up space, has no other purpose.

Normally, the final destination of these "waste newspapers" in the past is either to become a "blanket" on the body of the homeless or as garbage for boiling water in the newspaper.

However, Colin seems to have thought of a new way to recycle these newspaper wastes.

If an old newspaper with printing errors is thrown into the trash can, it is undoubtedly garbage.

But if it is used to pack food, the value of these newspapers seems to have changed accordingly, especially for the party that receives the food. Most of them are at the bottom of the Great Depression, and they are also the group that newspapers and media cannot reach.

You can't expect a person who has a problem with eating to spend money to buy a newspaper.

For them, what happens in the world is meaningless, because it can't change the fact that they are not full, nor can it bring much change to them. The news reported in the newspaper may be important, but for them, it seems so insignificant.

Most of the bottom are doing everything to maintain their lives, and you can't ask them to do more.

This is the Great Depression, the most real life of the bottom of this era.

Colin can't change much about this.

He is just a newspaper owner, even if he has some special abilities.

But in this era, it is still a little insignificant.

This may be the reason why "Superman" is popular in this era. People are eager for the appearance of Superman, hoping that there is an omnipotent existence to save them from the bottomless quagmire.

Or maybe these people also know deep down that even Superman can't save everyone.

Of course, Colin didn't intend to save everything in this era.

That's what the President of the United States should do, not him.

All he did was buy some cheap pork liver bread.

Give them away together with those old newspapers with misprints to gain [faith].

Find a new place for these useless newspapers.

...

Giving away the last piece of bread in his hand, Colin signaled to Little John beside him with his eyes.

The latter nodded, stepped forward and advised the team in front of the newspaper office who still refused to leave: "There's no more, there's no more bread, you go to line up somewhere else..."

Under the drive of Little John, the people in the team reluctantly dispersed.

"Sir, will you distribute bread here tomorrow?"

A child who looked only four or five years old got through Little John's arm and stared at Colin with lifeless eyes.

"No."

Colin squatted down, looked at the ragged child in front of him, and shook his head.

After hearing what Colin said, the child showed an obvious disappointment in his eyes: "Will there be no bread in the future?"

Looking at the thin child in front of him and the crowd in front of the newspaper office who were reluctant to disperse, Colin was silent for a while before saying: "There will be, but we have to wait until next Monday."

It will take at least a week to save a certain number of newspapers.

"Okay, sir."

Nodding, the child said to Colin in an expectant tone.

All for [Faith].

Hearing this, Colin said to himself silently in his heart.

...

Move the table outside back to the newspaper office.

The whole relief has come to an end.

"Boss..."

Walking into the newspaper office with a cardboard with the words "relief bread" written on it, John's face was still a little hesitant.

"Do we really have to provide relief every Monday in the future?"

Although, with the increase in sales of the Courier, the newspaper has gotten rid of its previous difficulties and is gradually moving in a better direction.

However, the days when the newspaper was struggling before are still engraved in his memory. He is a little worried that such an approach will affect the newspaper and indirectly affect his income.

"It's just simple relief. Even if we don't do it, someone will do it."

"When the situation gets better, no one will come."

As a time traveler, Colin knows that the Great Depression cannot last forever. With the inauguration of Roosevelt and the implementation of the New Deal, the haze caused by the Great Depression will gradually dissipate.

"Is the situation getting better?"

However, for John Jr., who was in the Great Depression, he obviously didn't believe that the situation would get better as Colin said.

On the contrary, he felt that the Great Depression would continue and the days to come would become more and more difficult.

The number of residents in the Hoover Village is increasing day by day. It is said that the size of the entire Hoover Village has grown from hundreds of households to tens of thousands, and this number is still growing. Even in the community where John Jr. lives, there are already many residents who cannot afford to eat and are forced to move into the Hoover Village.

Colin did not say much after noticing the disbelief in John Jr.'s eyes.

He knew very well that in such an economically depressed era, people's thoughts could not be easily reversed.

Even in the future, even if the Great Depression ends and the economy recovers.

However, the era mark formed by the Great Depression has long been deeply engraved in the memory of people in this period, and even changed their lives from then on.

Many people have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder during the Great Depression, and they are still deeply affected even after several years and decades after the end of the Great Depression.

Fred *** is one of the victims of the sequelae of the Great Depression. He never allows his sons to show his gentle side. He hopes his sons will be "fierce", not like sheep, but rather become "killers". Material things are obtained through plunder, and one must always be on guard against being taken away. This inherent instability is vividly demonstrated.

"Man is the most brutal of animals. Life is a series of battles, and the result is not winning or losing." - The 45th President of the United States.

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