American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Regarding the fact that the publishing house was acquired.

Harry's attitude also changed from resistance at the beginning, to acceptance, and then to now being thankful.

As Jack said before, they are just an inconspicuous publisher among many unlucky publishers.

Even if Colin hadn't found them at that time, there would be other publishers to replace them.

In the Great Depression, the last thing lacked was bankrupt publishers.

As long as they spent a little money, these guys were happy to work for each other.

"So, what is the number of copies of the new issue of "The Courier Comics"?"

Putting away the thoughts in his mind, Harry looked at Colin in front of him and asked tentatively.

"Three hundred thousand copies."

Faced with Harry's question, Colin answered directly.

"Only printing 300,000 copies, isn't that a little too little?"

Hearing the number given by Colin, Harry's expression was a little surprised, and he couldn't help but say: "Last month, we sold nearly 300,000 copies of the first issue of "The Courier Comics". If the number of pirated copies is counted, it may have exceeded 400,000 copies. Such a huge number of circulation has fully proved the potential of "The Courier Comics". Even if the new issue of "The Courier Comics" is not printed 500,000 copies, 400,000 or 350,000 copies are also a matter of course."

At first, Harry thought that Colin's approach of printing 200,000 copies directly was too radical, but now he thinks he is a little too conservative.

The market has fully proved the huge potential behind "The Courier Comics", and now is the time to seize the opportunity.

Quietly, listen to Harry's analysis.

There is no doubt that the other party's view is not too wrong.

In fact, even if he doesn't say it, Colin knows that 300,000 copies are far from the limit of "The Courier Comics".

And under the premise of knowing all this, he still chooses to print only 300,000 copies of comic books, and naturally he has his own reasons.

"In addition to reprinting the three episodes previously serialized in the Courier, I am also going to add a reader interaction link on the last page of the comic. I will create a new villain on that page. Readers who buy the Courier can participate in this activity with the content on the last page of the comic."

"Readers who buy the new issue of the Courier can cut out that page of comics and leave the villain's name and story background on it. Once selected, the villain created by the reader will appear in the latest issue of the Superman comic in the Courier."

In this era when newspaper serialized comics are transitioning to comic books, Colin said that the concept of 'reader interaction' proposed is undoubtedly a very progressive idea.

Even Harry Donafield, a well-informed publisher, could not help but exclaim.

"So, your purpose is to crack down on those pirates?"

At the same time, he also realized the meaning behind this move.

As mentioned before, the quality of the "Courier Comics" printed by pirates is generally not comparable to that of the genuine ones.

Colin's move not only increased the topicality of the comics, but also indirectly hit the problem of piracy.

Once these readers find that the pirated "Courier Comics" they bought cannot participate in the activities, they will naturally reduce or simply give up buying "Courier Comics" from pirates.

"This is just one of the purposes."

Without denying Harry's guess, Colin frankly admitted this.

Although he had comforted himself about the piracy problem before.

But if there is an opportunity to crack down on pirates, Colin will naturally not be soft-hearted.

With the harvest of [Faith], he will not lose both money and people in the matter of piracy.

As an adult, he always wants people and money.

...

The number of copies of "Courier Comics" was finalized.

The factory immediately started printing in full swing. In order to ensure the quality of the finished product of the new issue of comics, Harry stayed in the printing factory almost 24 hours a day.

On the other hand, Jack took the first issue of "Courier Comics" to various states near New York City to expand sales.

The two publishers devoted themselves to "Courier Comics" and wanted to make it a new genre publication with an independent readership.

On this side, Colin's comic series in the "Courier" did not stop.

On Wednesday morning.

The latest issue of "Superman" comics was freshly released.

It soon fell into the hands of eager readers in the streets and alleys of New York City through the hands of newspaper boys.

In the new issue of the comic plot, a brand new villain appeared.

Toyman, a guy who invented all kinds of strange toys to fight against Superman.

At the beginning of the comic, the newly appeared toy man has not yet revealed his identity. He is low-key and introverted, and he is humble. Even when he is cursed by passers-by, he behaves very kindly. For a time, readers who saw this scene mistakenly thought that he was a cowardly good man. It is speculated that the next story direction may be the story of the toy man being rescued by Superman after falling into danger.

However, the subsequent development of the comics was far beyond the readers' expectations.

After returning home, the toy man, who had been gentle and even cowardly, suddenly tore off his kind disguise and revealed his evil and crazy nature.

He controlled the toys he invented and launched a crazy revenge on the passers-by who cursed him. The funny-looking toy monkey launched a fatal attack on him. Just when the passers-by were in crisis, Superman appeared, saved the passers-by who were attacking him, and smashed the toy monkey with one punch.

Superman's move, although saving the passers-by, also completely angered the toy man.

He resented Superman for meddling in his affairs. Why didn't he show up when he was cursed before, but when he started to retaliate, he showed up again and destroyed his invented toys.

In the subsequent plot, the toy man controlled his toy army and used the evil toy ray to turn everything in Metropolis into toys. When hit by the toy ray, both buildings and people will turn into toys. Facing the crisis encountered by Metropolis, Superman appeared again and successfully saved the people who were about to be swept by the ray.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the toy man hid himself among the many toy armies, trying to confuse Superman's sight and escape. At this critical moment, Superman showed his ability of perspective, saw through the disguise of the toy man, and caught the toy man among the many toy troops.

Finally, Superman destroyed the toy ray of the toy man, and all the people and things affected by the ray returned to their original state, and the toy man also died in the explosion of his toy army.