American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

"Sir, this is the serialized content of 'Flame Man'."

In the positive world, in the Messenger newspaper.

Jacob handed the draft in his hand to Colin, and said with some trepidation.

After getting his approval and agreeing to serialize a plot about 'Flame Man' in "Superman", Jacob has been in a state of contradiction. On the one hand, he is looking forward to the appearance of the character he created in the comics, and on the other hand, he is worried that if the plot he designed is not exciting enough, it will be rejected by Mr. Colin, or readers will not like it.

With such contradictory emotions, Jacob has not slept well for several days.

In addition to coloring the comics, he has been thinking about the plot of 'Flame Man'.

Colin took the draft in Jacob's hand and looked down at him in his trepidation.

"Interesting?"

When he saw Jacob's setting of 'Flame Man', no, it should be said that 'Human Torch' in the comics, he couldn't help but curl his mouth, and a hint of interest flashed in his eyes.

The story background of "Human Torch" continues some of its settings in the "World Journal", which is also a product of experiments.

However, Jacob's cleverness is to link the scientist who made the Human Torch with the villain Luthor in "Superman".

This is a clever choice, bringing out a new story through a character accepted by readers.

In the story created by Jacob, because his previous evil plans were frequently blocked by Superman, Luthor came up with the idea of ​​creating a being that could fight Superman. Through evil secret experiments, Luthor created a being that would emit blazing flames when in contact with oxygen, and named it the Human Torch.

When the Human Torch was first created in Luthor's giant test tube, it was completely controlled by Luthor.

Luthor caused the Human Torch to appear in Metropolis and wreak havoc, destroying any target that dared to block his ruling plan, including Superman's existence.

And the development of the plot is just like the serialization of comics in the past.

Superman and the Human Torch started a battle. Although the flames on the Human Torch could not hurt Superman's body, they caused damage to the surroundings of Metropolis. In a hurry again, Superman thought of a way. He caught the Human Torch and flew over the sea, and threw the burning guy directly into the sea.

The boundless sea swallowed up the body of the Human Torch, and Luthor's evil plan was once again blocked by Superman.

However, in the last frame of the draft, Jacob left a little thought.

The Human Torch that fell into the sea was washed back to the shore, but it had lost its memory.

"Good plot design."

After reading the comics created by Jacob, Colin nodded.

He did not reject Jacob's approach of connecting the origin of the "Human Torch" with Luthor. On the contrary, such an origin design gave him a novel feeling. Seeing the comic characters designed by others interact with his own Superman, there was a sense of surprise in the creation of the same people.

"After the draft is revised and colored, it will be handed over to Old John."

"Sir, what do you mean?!"

After hearing Colin's arrangement, Jacob's uneasy expression was instantly replaced by surprise, and he couldn't help but say.

"Faced with such an excellent work, what reason do I have to refuse?"

In response, Colin did not deny it.

"But before that..."

Then, he seemed to have thought of something and spoke up.

"Maybe we can make some more changes to the draft of the battle between Superman and the Human Torch, and add a Superman ability here."

BiDiGe

Freezing breath, this is a classic ability of Superman.

It happens to be the opposite of the ability of the Human Torch in the comics, which can add more confrontation to the battle plot.

At the same time, it is also a small attempt by Colin.

That is, whether it can provide superpowers for himself through the creation of other cartoonists.

"No problem, sir, I will modify the plot right away."

Faced with Colin's suggestion, Jacob nodded quickly.

It is also necessary to be able to serialize the story he created in the "Courier". Modifying the plot is not a problem for us at all.

What's more, Mr. Colin's idea was completely proposed from the perspective of the good of the role of Thunderbolt, and he had no reason to refuse.

Retracting from Jacob's excited figure, Colin silently put his eyes back on the newspaper in his hand.

It took him several days to return to New York by steam locomotive in Los Angeles.

During the time he was away from New York, the whole situation seemed to have changed significantly.

"… New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced his candidacy for president, but the Democratic Party was not optimistic about it. Former New York Governor and Democratic presidential nominee candidate Al Smith said in an interview that a weak guy like Roosevelt could not become a nominee at all, and his participation in the campaign was just a farce."

Roosevelt announced his candidacy for president.

Looking at the news content published in the political section of the newspaper, Colin said silently in his heart.

Historically, Roosevelt became the longest-serving president in American history, and was re-elected for a total of four terms.

During this period, no one was optimistic about Roosevelt's candidacy.

The party's nomination candidates didn't care about him, and even the media looked down on him.

"The New Republic" said in the weekly magazine that Roosevelt had "neither superior intelligence nor extraordinary stamina."

The Nation magazine mocked him: "Hoover changed his name, but he is still Hoover."

No one thought Roosevelt would become president.

Even during the party's internal campaign, the "Baltimore Sun" mocked: "The Democrats elected their most cowardly candidate."

All these prove that the public is not optimistic about Roosevelt.

How can such a guy who is sitting in a wheelchair and unable to move freely become the president of a country?

However, under the circumstances that everyone was not optimistic about, Roosevelt successfully defeated Hoover.

Although, from Colin's point of view, in fact, at this period, it was not too difficult for anyone to defeat Hoover.

The reason why Roosevelt was able to succeed was actually more that the people had lost hope in everything. The Great Depression had completely shattered the public's confidence. They had lost hope for the future of the United States, so they had no extravagant hope that it would be the same in the future. There was an earlier situation.

The Hoover on stage was bankrupt, but off the stage, the 'new Hoover' in a wheelchair seemed to have some hope.

In this way, in the public's disgust for Hoover and the mentality of breaking the pot and throwing it away.

Roosevelt was elected.

This is not how great Roosevelt was, it’s just that the United States in the Great Depression needed a choice, and Roosevelt was the only choice they had to make.

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