Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 94 Roaring Age
Because he published the "Yellow Child" comics on a large scale.

The "World Journal" sponsored by Pulitzer was once called the "Yellow Kid Newspaper", but later this title was simplified and became the "Yellow Newspaper".

At the same time, the proper noun "Yellow Kid News" was finally abbreviated as "Yellow News".

It is also known to the public in later generations as the source of yellow news.

Although, in the later period of the yellow journalism competition, as Pulitzer himself was tired and civil groups resisted, the "World Journal" took advantage of the situation to transform into a more serious newspaper, and the "New York News" went into decline because of this, and it never recovered.

As the representative of "yellow journalism", the yellow child has gradually faded out of people's vision as the era of yellow journalism came to an end.

The Yellow Kid is said to have last appeared in a cartoon about hair conditioner on January 1898, 1.

On May 1898, 5, the Yellow Child was featured in the comic "The Museum of Children's Coins at Casey's Corner," a satirical cartoon depicting him as a ridiculously bearded, balding The old man, in a green pajamas with the words: "Oops! I'm old enough to collect!"

The era of 'yellow journalism' has been on the decline for so long that many people have forgotten what it used to represent and its connection to World Journal.

However, Colin has brought readers back to all this with the latest Superman comic strip in the Courier-Journal.

In particular, under the function of the newly purchased color rotary printing machine by the newspaper, the color of the era represented by the yellow child is clearly presented in the comic story, which forms a sharp contrast with the red cloak behind Superman .

At the same time, Ke Lin even used the yellow on the child Huang to allude to the copycat Superman in the latest comic "Super Soldier" published by "World Daily".

At the end of the comic, Superman, who represents the "Messenger Daily", will defeat the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the "Metropolitan World" that caused chaos in the metropolis with one punch. Looking at the 'yellow kid' covering his cheek on the ground, Superman said: "Your The time is over, sir, and fakes will never win against the real Superman!"

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The latest issue of the Courier-Journal's "Superman" comic has become the talk of the town in New York.

People not only discuss the colorization of newspapers, but also talk about the confrontation between Superman and the "yellow kid" in the comics.

Although the era of 'yellow journalism' ended, the new wave of 'yellow tabloid era' lasted for a full decade.

Since the 20s, that absurd, grotesque, crazy and noisy era has left a deep impression on people.If it weren't for the Great Depression, hunger crimes and unemployment would have become the top priorities of the people, making people instinctively resent and resist the report style of the small yellow newspapers.

Or, the new wave of 'tabloid era' may last much longer.

It is precisely because of the existence of the history of "yellow journalism" and "yellow tabloid era".

Therefore, readers who have experienced the original "yellow news" or the current "yellow tabloid era" will have a sense of empathy when they see the plot of yellow news on the "Courier".Based on the plot of "Superman" in the comics, people began to discuss all kinds of absurd news content in the "pornographic tabloid era".

That crazy and absurd era made people yearn for it in the Great Depression era.

Because that was also the golden 20 years of the United States, the glorious "roaring age".

From a pre-war debtor country to a creditor country, a strong construction boom was set off, and a large amount of capital was invested in infrastructure construction.While those at the bottom are still poor, more people are getting better, living a moderate life, or becoming richer than ever before.

In that era, flowers flourished everywhere from the Alps to the West Coast of the United States.The huge wave of technology is washing over Europe, and half of the world's wealth is gathered in the United States.Highways and railways across the east and west of the United States were built, and daily necessities such as automobiles and refrigerators entered thousands of households.

In 1920, commercial radio was born in Pittsburgh, USA, and more than 1200 million households had radios.Massive information is transmitted on the move, and many business models are born.America's urban population outnumbered its rural population, and white-collar workers appeared in skyscrapers.Men carry briefcases, while women pursue knee-length straight skirts, and installment payments are popular across the country.

At night, jazz flows out of the transistor, repeatedly pouring out the elegance and glitz of the prosperous age.The neon lights of the city are like an endless jungle. On the huge poster, the girl encourages every family to buy two cars.Living in such a dreamy age, people always have inexplicable self-confidence, everyone is imagining the future of infinite technological development, and consumption upgrades are hotly discussed everywhere.

At that time, the power generation capacity in the United States increased by 7 times, and telephone lines traversed the North American continent.

Before the "Roaring Age" began, cars were still a luxury, but by 1927, Ford had sold 1500 million cars. In 1927, Americans flew across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time by plane.The following year, the Chrysler Building, the tallest building in the world at that time, started construction in New York.Although the domestic debt is complicated, from 1925 to 1928, the average annual investment of the United States abroad was 11 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to [-] billion US dollars today.

In 1928, when President Hoover, who was not hated at that time, came to power, he said: We are on the eve of a decisive victory in the war on poverty, and the slums will disappear from the United States.

At that time, Hoover proudly declared: "With God's help, we will soon see that the day is at hand to drive poverty out of this country." One chicken, two cars in the garage” spread across the country.He also said in his inaugural address: "The fruits of our achievements are firmly established and surpassed by no country."

In the summer of 1929, the United States was full of singing and dancing.

The bull market in the stock market for several consecutive years reflects the beautiful vision of Americans for the future.The stock of General Motors of the United States rose from 268 to 391, and the stock of US Steel also rose from 165 to 258.People only talk about stocks when they meet and never talk about anything else.

1929年9月3日是美国股市辉煌的顶峰：道·琼斯工业指数达到了386.10点，全天成交量为444万股，比1921年8月24日的最低点相比上升了504%。美国财长对公众说：繁华高潮将永不停歇。

Economists say US stock prices are on eternal high ground.

until……

On October 1929, 10, Black Tuesday came.

Then came the Great Depression.

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