American manga: I drew Superman in the Great Depression

"No need, Mr. Doug."

It’s over!

Upon hearing Colin's reply, the factory owner felt a flash of despair in his heart.

Just when Doug thought everything was over, Colin changed the subject and said, "I want this machine."

"Wha...what?"

After hearing Colin's words, Doug didn't react for a while.

After a while, he came back to his senses and said with a bit of surprise in his tone: "Sorry, I didn't hear clearly, Mr. Colin, what do you mean?"

"I mean, if the price you give me, Mr. Doug, is reasonable, I am willing to buy this color wheel machine."

In fact, from the beginning, Colin did not have high expectations for color printing technology.

After all, the times are here.

In this period, it has only been less than ten years since the technology of color printing appeared and was applied to newspapers. With the onset of the Great Depression, the development of printing technology seems to have fallen into a stage of stagnation.

In an era when there is not enough to eat, it is difficult to expect any major progress in technology.

Although Doug's color rotary printing press was purchased before the Great Depression, it still used mainstream four-color printing technology, a relatively mature color printing method.

The characters are colored by the continuous superposition of four colors: yellow, red, cyan, and black.

After finalizing the purchase of the color rotary printing press, the rest was left to Jack and Doug to discuss.

Perhaps because of the relationship, the factory owner did not bother much about the price of the runner, and the two parties soon settled on a 'reasonable' price that both parties were satisfied with.

I bought this printing machine through installment payments.

…

"So, sir, will The Courier really only publish color newspapers from now on?"

In the Courier newspaper office, surrounding the newly purchased four-color rotary printing press, Little John couldn't help but ask Colin.

"To be precise, the comic strips of "Superman" were replaced with color printing, and the rest of "The Courier" will still maintain the original black and white content."

Color printing of comic pages was the earliest publication method adopted by World Journal, and Colin just 'borrowed' it.

It's like "World Journal" borrowed his idea from "Superman".

Buying the machine is just the preliminary preparation work.

The real counterattack begins now.

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"Extra number, extra number!"

"The latest color version of "Superman" is out!"

On the streets of New York, Jimmy ran through the streets and squares waving newspapers.

"Give me a newspaper..."

Hearing the shout from the newsboy, a pedestrian passing by quickly stopped him and took out a two-cent coin from his arms, with a little doubt on his face: "Are you sure, this is the real color version of "

Superman serial?"

"certainly!"

Faced with the passers-by's doubts, Jimmy immediately opened the Courier in his hand and flashed the color version of "Superman" in the comic section of the newspaper.

"Mr. Colin of the Courier-Journal believes that only color Superman can better make readers feel the charm of Superman, so he would rather spend a lot of money to purchase machines to color comics during this economic downturn, and at the same time

We have made the decision to maintain the original price and publish newspapers so that more people can see the color version of Superman comics..."

"I want a newspaper!"

I don’t know whether he was affected by the touching story of Mr. Colin, the owner of the Courier, as told by Jimmy, or whether he was simply attracted by the colorful cartoons in the Courier in the hands of the newsboy.

In short, after listening to Jimmy's explanation, the pedestrian immediately bought a newspaper without any hesitation.

"It is indeed a colorful Superman."

Looking through the pages of the Courier, looking at Superman in a blue tights, a red cape, and a big "s" mark on the shield-shaped logo on the comic page, an inexplicable feeling of excitement suddenly surged in the pedestrian's heart.

heart.

Suppress your inner excitement and continue reading.

As the first serial issue of "The Courier" that switched from black and white printing to color printing, the content of this issue of "Superman" seems to be significantly different from the past.

In the new color issue of Superman Comics.

A super villain, a copycat Superman appears.

This copycat Superman has a similar appearance to Superman and uses this to do evil in Metropolis.

Metropolis, Courier Journal.

Reporter A: "What, Superman is destroying public facilities?!"

Clark: "Public destruction, Superman?"

In the Courier Daily newspaper office, Clark was a little confused when he heard the information about Superman from his colleagues, because he, the real Superman, stayed in the office.

Lois: "No, I don't believe Superman would do that."

Clark: "I don't believe it either."

Two supermen?

The appearance of the fake Superman attracted the attention of passers-by almost instantly.

He looked at the figure in the comic grid, whose silhouette was 89% similar to Superman, and couldn't help but start to feel uneasy.

Is there really another Superman? There is not one Superman, but there are many?

With such doubts and uneasiness, pedestrians continued to look down.

In the following comic content, the "Courier Daily" where Superman works seems to have also encountered a crisis. A newspaper called "Metropolitan World" appeared, attracting the attention of the people of Metropolis through a large amount of yellow news, and with the yellow news

The proliferation has had a huge impact on the entire metropolitan news industry.

Metropolis Monde? Yellow journalism?

Looking at the two familiar but paradoxical names appearing in the comics, pedestrians gradually got a taste of them.

"Interesting, this "Metropolitan World" should refer to the real "World Journal", and yellow news is what "World Journal" developed and flourished."

This connection between reality and comics gives pedestrians a deeper sense of immersion.

In the following comics, faced with the dual crisis of work and Superman's identity, our protagonist Clark did not give up. He sneaked into "Metropolitan World" and discovered the relationship between the copycat Superman that appeared in Metropolis and this newspaper.

Contact. In the end, this guy who was doing evil in Metropolis was discovered by Superman and his appearance was exposed. It turned out that the fake Superman was disguised by a man with thin hair, no front teeth, and wearing a baggy yellow pajamas.

"Yellow kid, haha!"

In the comics, I saw a guy who was revealed by Superman and changed back to his original form.

Pedestrians couldn't help but laugh.

Although, in the story, the guy disguised as a copycat Superman is enlarged, the iconic yellow pajamas and sparse hair features still make readers of the comic immediately think of "World Daily", the most popular series in the history.

The representative comic character - Huang Kid.

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