Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 71 Submarine
"Really, it's such a pity."

No matter what he thought in his heart, Colin still expressed regret on the surface.

After chatting about their views on each other, Roy began to talk about cooperation.

The purpose of his trip is very simple, mainly to discuss the cooperation between Mickey Mouse and "The Courier".

Out of financial considerations, Walt Disney Studios is considering opening up some of Mickey Mouse's image franchises serialized in comic strips, and Colin's "Messenger News" and "Messenger Comics" are currently the most popular comics in New York One of the publications, which is why Roy approached the newspaper.

He intends to borrow the popularity of "Superman" to reverse the decline in sales of Mickey Mouse peripherals.

Hearing the meaning of Roy's words, Collin suddenly became interested.

Of course, follow-up negotiations.

It didn't go as smoothly as expected. The arrival of Roy Disney only expressed preliminary opinions.

Finally, after a three-hour conversation.

The Courier Newspaper and Walt Disney Studios reached a preliminary consensus.

The studio agreed in principle to sell a portion of Mickey Mouse's newspaper franchise, allowing Colin to run a Mickey Mouse-related comic book issue in the Superman comics.However, the plot must be agreed by Walt Disney, and the Mickey Mouse that appears in the comics must conform to Disney's animation settings.

To put it simply, Walt Disney Studios attaches great importance to the image of Mickey Mouse, after all, this is the existence of two Walt brothers.

In case Colin designed Mickey Mouse as an evil villain in the comics, doing behaviors that did not conform to his image, such as destroying the city or something.

It would be a huge blow to the fledgling Walt Disney Studios.

Of course, Walt Disney in this era would never have imagined that one day in the future, the animated image of Mickey Mouse would never return on the route of novelty hunting.

But then again.

If you watch Disney's "Confused Symphony" series of animations during this period, there are also a lot of novelty-hunting content.In the first episode of the animation "The Skeleton Dance", there is an animation of a group of skeletons dancing in the tomb.

Of course, for Walt Disney in the early days of the Great Depression, the audience for animation was actually more for adults.

The transition to children's animation was more after the establishment of Disneyland.

Here, the franchise issue of Mickey Mouse's appearance in the "Superman" comics has been finalized.

On the other hand, Colin also took advantage of the situation and put forward his own request, hoping that the studio can produce an animation similar to "Superman".

Originally, he planned to wait for a while, and it would not be too late to launch the "Superman" series of animations after the animation technology matured.

But since Walt Disney himself approached the door, Colin would naturally not let go of this opportunity.

Roy hesitated a little about Colin's request.

"On this point, I need to discuss it with the people in the studio before I will give you an answer, Mr. Colin Luper."

……

The anti-world, the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, inside the Narwhal submarine.

Colin opened his eyes and walked out of the cramped room.

Under the effect of [Super Hearing], he can hear the conversations of members of the resistance army in the submarine, the roar of the huge diesel engine of the submarine, and of course the screams of the tense octopus deep in the sea, as if an airplane whizzed by. ; When the catfish school swims at night, it makes a sound like a snare drum; the snoring sound made by puffer fish and porcupine porpoise is like a snoring, snoring.

The sea is not silent, on the contrary it is very lively.

Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to talk to fish.

Shaking his head, he put away his [Super Hearing] ability.

Colin looked in the direction of the passageway of the submarine.

As a cruiser submarine that has been in use since World War II, the internal equipment of the Narwhal is already old and dilapidated. Even after being rebuilt and repaired by the rebels, it cannot conceal the fact that it has been operating for more than 60 years.

Restricted by the "Washington Armistice Agreement", the U.S. military has been required to control naval armaments since World War II.

The treaty stipulates that the signatories need to abandon their capital ship construction plans and maintain their existing capital ships.After this treaty comes into effect, the capital ships of the signatory countries that have not stipulated to retain them, regardless of whether they have been built or not, shall be abandoned according to the provisions of the treaty.

Since the signing of the Armistice Agreement, the U.S. Navy has entered a long era of 'naval holidays'.

With the decommissioning of various warships one after another, the strength of the U.S. Navy has gradually shrunk, and it has regressed from the original far-sea combat to near defense.

If it weren't for the three aircraft carriers that have been in service for more than 60 years, supporting the navy's face, occasionally showing their faces in the Atlantic Ocean, and then returning to Hong Kong for maintenance.

Or, the United States has long been removed from the list of naval powers.

Of course, even if it is not delisted, according to the assessment and judgment of the New York Times and other media, perhaps after four or five years, as those aircraft carriers with excess service life are forced to decommission, the combat power of the navy will also be greatly affected.

In fact, because of this incident, the Armed Services Committee of the Senate also issued a call to discuss the possibility of revising the "Washington Armistice Agreement", arguing that this provision, which has appeared since World War II, can no longer adapt to the development of modern society.As a victorious country, Germany should be loosened so that they can build a newer generation of naval warship equipment.

In the narrow corridor of the submarine, the dim lights flickered faintly, making the sound of electric current.

Obviously, affected by the water pressure, the power supply system inside the Narwhal is also affected.

Withdrawing his gaze from the dim light in the corridor, Colin turned his head to look at the plywood in the corridor.

As the most important cruiser submarine of the US military during World War II, the scale of the Narwhal is not small. The length of more than [-] meters allows the entire submarine to operate under the sea like a behemoth.

However, limited by the technology at the time, although the Narwhal was huge in scale, a large part of it was to carry its huge engine compartment, where four diesel engines and two electric engines were placed.

Excluding the position of the engine compartment, the cabins that can be used in the entire Narwhal appear to be much less.

At the same time, the large number of reinforcement plates in the submarine made the already not spacious submarine even more crowded.

In the Narwhal, the reinforcement plates that can be seen everywhere block everyone's sight.

But he couldn't stop Colin's eyes.

As he watched, the splint in front of him began to peel off, revealing the old wiring and internal mechanical structure inside.

[Ability - Super Perspective (Black Iron)]

[Ability description: Superman's eyes are different from those of people on Earth. They have magical abilities that can help him see through most objects. 】

　Thanks for the reward of 100 starting coins for Sphinx's puzzle.

　　
　
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