American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

"A copy of the Courier..."

Wednesday morning, New York, in front of the tram station.

A customer took out a two-cent coin and bought a copy of the latest Courier of the day from the newsboy hawking along the street.

"Okay, sir."

Carefully putting away the coin, Little Jimmy took out a copy from the thick newspaper in his arms and handed it to the customer in front of him.

At the same time, the pedestrians waiting to transfer to the station saw this and seemed to come forward to buy a few newspapers from him.

Handing the newspaper tied tightly with a rope in his arms to the pedestrian in front of him, Little Jimmy noticed the hesitant expression in the eyes of the pedestrians around him.

He hurriedly shouted: "Extra, Extra, The Courier exclusively exposes the mayor's bribery scandal!"

Hearing Little Jimmy's shout, some pedestrians who were originally hesitant also joined the team to buy newspapers.

The mayor took bribes? !

"The Courier actually reports such things. I thought it was just a comic newspaper?"

Looking through the newspaper in his hand, a customer muttered.

"Why report a scandal? Why not serialize more Superman comics?"

Of course, readers of the Courier have different opinions on this practice. Some are surprised, but more readers don't care. They buy newspapers to read the serialized content. As for the mayor's bribery, that is a report that newspapers like the World Journal will track.

Looking through the newspaper, the serialized content of Superman still occupies the most space on the page.

Obviously, even if the scandal of the mayor's bribery was announced, the Courier still did not forget its "main job".

The plot last weekend happened to serialize the first appearance of the mysterious man Batman.

The speculation and discussion about Batman has been going on for a long time among readers.

Even the Orson Welles radio host of the Mercury Theater in the Sky questioned who this mysterious man who wears a bat uniform and hides his body in the dark is, and everyone is concerned about who he is and what kind of abilities he has.

In the new issue, this question has been partially answered.

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Looking at the mysterious man in the shadow, Superman showed a surprised expression on his face.

Superman: "Batman?!"

Superman: "Are you the mysterious man in Gotham City?"

Batman: "It's me."

As he spoke, Batman walked out of the shadow, revealing his bat-like mask and huge black cape, and of course the huge bat mark on his chest.

In the design of Batman's appearance, Colin referred to his most classic image, both black and gray, and made notes on Batman's voice in the comics.

"That is a very special sound, as low and unique as the collision of metal. Superman can hear that this is a sound changed by a special device."

Batman, who emerged from the shadow, asked Superman about the purpose of appearing in Gotham City.

Batman: "Tell me, Superman, why did you come to Gotham."

Superman: "I heard about the mysterious man, so I wanted to come and see the situation."

Batman: "Now that you have seen it, you can leave the city."

When the two met for the first time, Batman did not seem to welcome Superman's arrival. However, the situation soon changed. Gotham City's police chief James Gordon asked for help and projected a bat light over Gotham City.

"Xianmu Qiyuan"

Superman: "What is that?"

Batman: "Bat light!"

Superman: "Bat light? What's it for?"

Batman: "Deliver a message."

Superman: "Deliver a message, to whom?"

Batman: "Me!"

Superman: "Don't you have a simpler way?"

Batman: "..."

Because of the appearance of the bat light, Superman and Batman rushed to the location of Commissioner James Gordon, and Batman also showed his unique Batmobile as a means of transportation during the period.

Arriving at James Gordon's location, Batman and Superman learned from each other about a murder case in Gotham City. A mysterious rich man died at home, and the police could not find out who the murderer was.

In the subsequent investigation, Batman found many suspicious points, including that the mysterious rich man seemed to have contact with the Gotham City government before his death, and just before the rich man died, a newspaper happened to publish rumors of corruption in Gotham City.

Superman: "Is this the news I published in the Daily Courier before?"

As Batman investigated, Superman also noticed the problem and found that the death of the mysterious rich man was actually related to his report in the Daily Courier.

Because of the death of the mysterious rich man, Superman and Batman started to cooperate. They investigated the cause of death of the other party and finally found the murderer, who happened to be a city government official who was exposed for corruption. Because the other party was afraid that his corruption secret would be exposed, he bribed the murderer to shut up the rich man who was one of the parties involved.

In order to find out the murderer who shot the rich man, Batman and Superman split up into two groups. Batman was responsible for shooting the murderer of the rich man. He killed the murderer without any hesitation, while Superman caught the government official who was planning to escape on a small private plane. Superman stopped the small plane in mid-air and handed the government official who was behind the scenes to Director James Gordon.

For Batman of this period, Colin obviously did not give him the rules of not shooting or killing.

Because during the Great Depression, no one would expect such a thing. In this era of frequent crime, people expect evil to be punished and all criminals to be brought to justice.

Therefore, Batman in the comics never shows mercy to criminals.

After fighting criminals together, Superman has a new understanding of Batman, the mysterious man in Gotham City, and believes that his existence can bring better results to Gotham City. After the cooperation ended, Superman turned into Clark again and took the train to leave Gotham City and returned to Metropolis.

Editor: "Kent, did I get any results from your investigation?"

Superman: "In fact, I have already written the report."

Editor: "You did a good job, Kent. Wherever you appear, there is always news about superheroes. It's amazing!"

The next day, a news article titled "Batman, the superhero of Gotham City" became the front page of the Metropolis "Messenger Daily".

At the same time, on the other side of Gotham City.

In the huge Wayne family castle, Bruce Wayne saw the report published by Superman, and next to him, Batman's cowl was placed on the table.

It turned out that Bruce Wayne, the rich man in Gotham City, is Batman!

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