American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Of course, not all the news about the Courier Comics is good news.

As the Courier Comics becomes more popular, Jack has found pirated copies of the comics in some neighborhoods.

And Harry found more pirated copies in some ‘Hoover Villages’.

These pirated copies of the Courier Comics are more crude in printing than the originals. Some pirates even directly change the original color Courier Comics back to black and white printing to save costs.

Such pirated printing has reduced the cost of comics to an extremely low level.

This has given some readers who could not afford or were reluctant to buy the color version of the Courier Comics a new choice.

“Can’t we catch them?”

In the Courier newspaper office, John asked, looking at the rough black and white pirated Courier Comics in front of him.

“It’s difficult.” Shaking his head, as a publisher, Harry obviously knew the door behind this: “The partners chosen by these publishers are basically some small factories. As long as they are paid, they can print anything. The factories don’t care what they print and what kind of impact it will cause...”

Harry seemed deeply touched by this.

After all, not long ago, the vulgar magazines printed by his publishing house were of this type.

"What about calling the police?"

"The police won't care about these things."

When Harry heard Little John mention the police, he showed a look of disapproval on his face: "Unless you give them money to help them deal with it, otherwise, these greedy blood-sucking insects will not pay attention to your help. Even if you are robbed in front of them, these guys will only sit in the police car and watch the incident happen indifferently, and even get a share of the robbery at that time."

"The lawyer is very happy that we will sue the pirates, but unfortunately, even if they win in the end, they can't pay the compensation, but have to pay a sum of money as lawyer fees."

In the era of underdeveloped technology such as the Great Depression, it is obviously not a simple matter to catch these pirates.

Not only is it time-consuming and laborious, but the results may not be satisfactory.

"So, is this the only way?"

After hearing Harry's answer, Little John was obviously disappointed.

"From another perspective, the emergence of piracy just proves the popularity of The Courier Comics."

Take your eyes away from the [Faith] in the text, and Colin's reaction is not as discouraged as Little John and others.

At least, judging from the figures in the [Faith] column, the sales of The Courier Comics have not been affected by the piracy incident. Colin even guessed that perhaps a small part of the [Faith] he obtained came from the pirated comics of The Courier Comics.

Although, in terms of money, these pirated black and white "The Courier Comics" caused a certain degree of loss to the newspaper.

But at least in terms of [Faith], he still gained something.

It's not to the point of losing both money and people.

Looking at the growing value of [Faith], Colin silently comforted himself in his heart.

...

"Maybe, you should take a look at this..."

Anti-world, Manhattan, 890 Fifth Avenue.

In the secret base of the Dark Avengers, accompanied by Tony's slightly frivolous voice.

On the console in front of Howard, a clip of surveillance video began to play.

"… The 32nd test… Start… The target's body characteristics are stable, start injecting 'burning...'"

In the screen, a figure wearing a white sterile suit can be seen standing in front of the operating table and reporting to the surveillance video. The other party picked up the syringe and injected the man's arm on the operating table. Then, the man on the operating table was seen roaring in pain, and his whole body began to burn.

"The 62nd test, the target..."

There are three surveillance videos like this.

Tony played them in sequence and waited until the last surveillance video was played.

Tony continued in the frozen screen of the test: "This is the data found in the Hydra Biological Research Laboratory in Fort Detrick during the previous operation. Most of the data was destroyed. I only restored a small part of the data, showing that Hydra had conducted some secret human experiments in Fort Detrick."

"Can you confirm the purpose of this experiment?"

Howard asked Tony, looking away from the burning experimental subject on the screen video.

"At present, it is still unknown..."

"However, I found an interesting name in the repaired data - Phineas Horton."

"Phineas Horton?"

Hearing this name, Howard's mechanical eyes turned slightly, and he was obviously familiar with this name.

"Dr. Phineas Horton has outstanding performance in the field of cyborg research. During World War II, he created the world's first cyborg - Human Torch (Thunderbolt). As long as it comes into contact with oxygen, its whole body will burn and form a fierce flame."

In front of the console, Howard's eyes flickered slightly when he heard Tony read the word "cyborg".

"At that time, the cyborg experiment led by Dr. Phineas Horton caused fear among the people. They believed that his behavior was blaspheming God's authority, especially after the Thunderbolt showed the ability to burn, which further aggravated the panic of the people."

"Under social pressure, Dr. Phineas Horton had to deal with the Human Torch. On the surface, he claimed that he buried the Human Torch with cement. But in fact, he secretly handed it over to the military for protection. Later, as World War II broke out, the Human Torch was selected by the military at the time and was active in the battlefield of World War II with Captain America as a member of the Raiders Team..."

As Tony described, an old photo appeared on the screen of the console.

In the photo, you can vaguely see the figure of the deceased Captain America, Steve Rogers, holding a shield and taking a photo side by side with a group of members of the Raiders Team.

On the left hand side of Captain America, there stood a serious figure wearing a red tights.

Obviously, this is the cyborg created by Dr. Phineas Horton, the Human Torch.

Standing in front of the console.

Howard's eyes swept over the familiar yet unfamiliar faces in the photo, and stopped on a blurred face behind Captain America, with a somewhat absent-minded expression on the cold face that had been mechanically transformed.

After a while, he restrained his inner emotions and continued to ask Tony in a hoarse voice.

"What's next? I need to know the information about Dr. Phineas Horton after he created the cyborg Human Torch."

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