American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

"Plagiarism, this is simply shameless plagiarism!"

"The copyright of Superman has always been in the hands of The Courier. Can't we file a lawsuit against World Journal?"

"No, I asked my lawyer friend, and World Journal had obviously already taken precautions. He had modified many plots of the "Super Soldier" comic to a certain extent, making the entire comic look similar but it was difficult to determine whether Really plagiarized..."

"With such an obvious image, and the use of the 'u' on the chest, it completely imitates Superman's appearance. How come it can't be judged as plagiarism?!"

"Obviously, the law does not define it this way. Just like in Detective Comics, the detective has the same look. "World Journal" can also infer that this is the image of a superhero. Don't forget, "World Journal" once appeared in "Yellow Children" He has experience in comics and knows more about comic copyright issues than we do.”

‘Yellow Kid’ comics.

Refers to the comic character who appeared in the comic column of "World Daily" at that time. It is the most representative comic character in the era of "yellow journalism". The protagonist is a child with a few hairs and no teeth, wearing a long and big yellow dress. This was a common image of children in the slums of New York at that time.

In the cartoon, Huang Kid wandered around and expressed his opinions, which attracted a lot of attention to the "World Journal" at that time.

Only later, the author of "The Yellow Kid" was poached from Outcott by William Randolph Hearst, the owner of the New York News, which made Pulitzer very angry and re-hired the painter George Lacks to continue working on "The Yellow Kid". Le Monde continued painting "The Yellow Kid" and took Hearst to court.

At the height of competition between the two major newspapers, "Huang Kid's" cartoons were serialized in each other's newspapers for a full year.

"World Journal" and "New York News" are even more reluctant to give in.

With the author's copyright so clear, the comic character "Yellow Kid" could be divided into two and serialized in two competing newspapers.

Not to mention, "Super Soldier" is now serialized in the newspaper by "World Daily".

Even once Colin complained, it directly raised the status of "Super Soldier" to the same level as "Superman", giving "World Daily" the opportunity to hype it up.

"Is this the end of it?!"

In the Courier newspaper office, we are faced with such blatant plagiarism as World Journal.

Little John and others seemed a little indignant.

Except for Francis, a few employees who had just joined the newspaper not long ago were careful not to express too many opinions.

Little John, Harry and others have already had heated discussions.

The focus of their attack is naturally the copycat Superman "Super Soldier" serialized in the latest issue of "World Journal".

In the newspaper office, looking at the comic strip of "Super Soldier" on the table, Little John felt that it was irritating to everyone, and he wanted to tear it out of the newspaper.

"Of course it's impossible to forget it like this."

Colin was not too surprised by the appearance of the fake Superman.

In later generations, with the rise of the superhero genre, copycats or imitations like this will only become more frequent.

In fact, as far as Colin knew, there was more than one superhero character based on the image of Superman.

Even later, during the boom period of superheroes, such "plagiarism" practices were repeatedly prohibited, let alone the Great Depression when Superman was just born.

However, no matter how much these comics imitate, they can never surpass the real Superman.

Of course, it's one thing to know that situations like 'plagiarism' are inevitable.

It's another thing to deal with it.

Just like what Colin said to the newsboy Jimmy before, he obviously will not be indifferent to the "plagiarism" practice of "World Journal".

"Jack, do you know where I can buy a rotary machine for color printing?"

Thinking of this, Colin directly asked Jack Leibowitz.

After hearing Colin's question, Little John and others who were having a heated discussion in the newspaper office seemed to shut their mouths.

Jack frowned, thought carefully, and then replied with some uncertainty: "I remember that there seemed to be a printing factory with idle color printing rotary machines."

As he spoke, Jack raised his head and glanced at Colin in front of him, and said tentatively: "That's your plan."

He nodded, not denying Jack's guess.

“I saw this as an opportunity to move The Courier from a black and white to a color newspaper.”

The world's earliest color-printed newspaper was produced by the "World Journal" in front of them. Although the concept of color printing is not new, Joseph Pulitzer's "World Journal" was the first to use this concept in a newspaper. It was the first to publish Illustrations were printed in color, and it was also the first newspaper to set up a special page for comic strips printed in color.

The famous "Yellow Child" is precisely because of color printing.

If "The Courier" wants to compete with "World Journal", it will obviously be difficult to rely solely on black and white "Superman comics".

"But in this case, what will be the newspaper's cost?"

Hearing that Colin wanted to convert the Courier into a color newspaper, John Sr. raised his concerns.

Compared with black and white newspapers, the cost of color newspapers is naturally different. Especially in this era, color printing technology was far from as mature as it would later be. If you want to color a color illustration, you often need to use the color printing machine several times in succession, covering one color one color.

This is also why, in those earlier comics, the characters that appeared were often only one color.

"Cost is not a problem."

The hot sales of the Courier comics and the production of Superman dolls are the confidence of Colin to turn the Courier into a color newspaper.

At the same time, if Colin wants to defeat the World Journal head-on in the newspaper, the colorization of the Courier is also the key.

Otherwise, the fake Superman and Super Soldier that appeared in the World Journal are already in color, while the genuine Superman is still serialized in black and white in the newspaper.

Even loyal readers of the Superman comics will be troubled if this continues.

Even some readers who have not read Superman will subconsciously regard the Super Soldier in the World Journal as the real Superman.

Neither of these two situations is acceptable to Colin.

In particular, the plagiarism of the World Journal not only affects the image of Superman, but also has a certain degree of impact on his acquisition of faith.

After all, the fake Superman will not gain faith for him.

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