Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 93 True and False Superman
"No, Mr. Doug."

Finished!

Hearing Ke Lin's reply, the factory owner flashed a hint of despair.

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

"What... what?"

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

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

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

In fact, from the very beginning, Ke Lin did not have too high expectations for the technology of color printing.

After all, the times are there.

In this period, it took less than 30 or [-] years for color printing technology to be applied to newspapers.With the occurrence of the Great Depression, the development of printing technology seems to have fallen into a certain stage of stagnation. In the era when everyone was hungry, it was difficult for you to expect much progress in technology.

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

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

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

Perhaps it was due to the relationship between hands off that the factory owner didn't bother with the price of the rotary machine, and soon the two parties settled on a 'reasonable' price that both parties were satisfied with.

I bought this printing machine by paying in installments.

……

"So, sir, is it true that the Courier will only publish papers in color from now on?"

The Courier newspaper, surrounded by the newly purchased four-color rotary printing machine, Little John couldn't help asking Colin.

"To be precise, the serial comics of "Superman" were replaced with color printing, and the rest of the "Courier" still maintained the original black and white content."

Color printing comic book page, which was the first publishing method adopted by "World Journal", Ke Lin just 'borrowed' it.

It's as if World Journal 'borrowed' his idea for Superman.

Buying the machine is just the preparatory work.

The real counterattack starts now.

……

"Outside the number, outside the number!"

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

On the streets of New York, Jimmy waved a newspaper and ran on the streets and squares.

"Give me a newspaper..."

Hearing the newsboy's shout, a passerby hurriedly stopped him, and took out a two-cent coin from his pocket, with a little doubt on his face: "Are you sure, this is the real color version of "" Superman series?"

"Of course!"

Facing the doubts of pedestrians, Jimmy immediately opened the Courier newspaper in his hand, and flashed the colorful version of the image of "Superman" on the comic section of the newspaper.

"Mr. Colin of the "Messenger" believes that only colored Superman can better make readers feel the charm of Superman, so he would rather spend a lot of money to buy machines to color comics during this economic downturn. At the same time, a decision was made to maintain the original price, and to publish newspapers so that more people can see the colorful version of Superman comics..."

"I want a newspaper!"

I don't know whether it was influenced by the touching story of Mr. Colin, the owner of the Courier, which Jimmy said, or 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 really is a colorful Superman."

Flipping through the "Courier", looking at the blue tights, wearing a red cape, and a big "S" mark on the chest shield on the comic page, a sense of inexplicable excitement suddenly surged in the hearts of passers-by. mind.

Suppress the inner excitement and continue to look down.

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

In a new issue of the Superman comic in color.

A super villain, the cottage Superman debut.

This copycat Superman, has a Superman-like appearance and uses this to do evil in Metropolis.

Metropolis, Daily Courier.

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

Clark: "Destroy public facilities, Superman?"

In the Daily Messenger newspaper, Clark was a little puzzled 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 debut of the copycat Superman attracted the attention of passers-by almost instantly.

He looked at the figure in the serial comics grid, the silhouette was about [-]% similar to Superman, and he couldn't help but began to feel uneasy.

Could there really be another Superman, not one, but many?

With such doubts and anxiety in mind, the pedestrian continued to look down.

In the following comic content, the "Messenger Daily" where Superman works seems to have encountered a crisis. A newspaper called "Metropolitan World" appeared, attracting the attention of the people of the metropolis through a large number of pornographic news. The proliferation of yellow journalism has had a huge impact on the entire metropolitan news industry.

The Metropolitan World?Yellow journalism?

Seeing the two familiar but plausible names appearing in the comics, Pedestrians gradually appreciate it.

"Interesting, this "Metropolitan World News" should refer to the "World Journal" in reality, and the yellow journalism is exactly what the "World Journal" has developed and prospered."

This connection between reality and comics makes the sense of substitution in pedestrians' hearts a little deeper.

In the following comics, facing the double crisis of work and Superman identity, our protagonist Clark did not give up.He infiltrates into the "Metropolis World" and discovers the connection between the copycat Superman appearing in the Metropolis and the newspaper.In the end, this guy who was doing evil in the metropolis was discovered by Superman and exposed his appearance. It turned out that the fake Superman was a man with thinning hair, no front teeth, and a fat yellow pajamas.

"Little Yellow, haha!"

In the comics, the guy who was revealed by Superman and turned back into his original form.

Pedestrians couldn't help but let out a haha.

Although, in the story, the guy disguised as a copycat Superman was enlarged, but the iconic yellow pajamas and sparse hair features reminded readers of the comics that the most serialized "World Journal" once A representative cartoon character - Huang Zizi.

(End of this chapter)