American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Peng!

He huddled his body behind the shield and landed on the ground with a slight landing sound.

The shield from Captain America perfectly offsets the impact of landing.

Anthony twisted his neck and put the shield in his hand back behind his back, then turned to look at Hawkeye Clint opposite.

"Taskmaster?!"

Looking at Anthony who appeared in front of him, Hawkeye frowned and said solemnly.

"It seems that you are the only one this time..."

The Taskmaster looked at Clinton, who appeared alone in front of him, and said without any fluctuation in his tone under the silver-white skull mask: "I originally thought that there would be more people coming."

"What?!"

Hearing the words behind Taskmaster's mask, Hawkeye's expression changed slightly.

Obviously, he already understood that this was a trap targeting the Dark Avengers.

However, before Hawkeye could counterattack, a gray phantom appeared behind him in the faint sound of electricity.

Immediately afterwards, Clinton lost consciousness and fell into darkness.

…

"The bug has been caught!"

Manhattan, 890 Fifth Avenue.

Tony's voice suddenly sounded in the Dark Avengers base.

…

"CBS?"

Positive World, inside the Courier newspaper office.

Facing the broadcast company's invitation, Colin showed a somewhat surprised expression on his face, but he was quickly restrained.

As mentioned before, the Great Depression was also the ‘golden age of radio’.

During this period, radio developed vigorously.

CBS was one of the radio stations that developed during this period.

In the early days, CBS also operated businesses such as publishing, musical instrument manufacturing, toys, and records, and mainly focused on paid broadcasting. When affiliated stations broadcast radio programs, they had to pay. Later, after a series of reforms and reorganizations, CBS changed this strategy and decided that affiliated stations could broadcast for free, and in return, they would draw a certain commission from the affiliated stations' advertising fees.

Through this decision, CBS swept away its decline, accumulated a large number of loyal listeners, and became another national broadcast network station after NBC.

After recalling the history of CBS in his mind, Colin looked up at the person in charge of CBS in front of him, and then asked: "So, the purpose of CBS is "Superman"?"

Apart from Superman, Colin really couldn't think of anything else worthy of the newspaper's attention.

"That's right."

He nodded. Compared to the previous contemptuous look of the negotiator of "World Journal", the person in charge of CBS was obviously much more sincere in his attitude.

Of course, this is also because the Courier newspaper today is no longer what it used to be, and it is no longer the tabloid position that people still have control over in the past.

With the serialization of "Superman", "The Courier" has become the second most popular newspaper in New York City after "The Journal".

The previous incident of "World Daily" copycatting Superman caused some trouble for the newspaper.

But in a certain respect, it can be regarded as helping Colin's "The Courier" increase its popularity.

In particular, "World Journal" is currently the largest newspaper in New York City, and it cannot be compared with the previous "Messenger" in terms of subscription numbers and audience.

But that time the copycat Superman invisibly helped "The Courier" increase its popularity.

In particular, the comics about the 'Yellow Child' that Colin created later in the series tied the Courier and the World Journal together in a disguised way.

This does not do any good for "World Journal", but for "The Courier", it is obviously a good thing.

Since that incident, at least, The Courier's sales have been steadily increasing.

It is said that "World Journal" has internal discussions on how to get rid of the ties of "The Courier".

"After unanimous discussions within CBS, it is believed that "Superman" owned by The Courier Newspaper is a character with great potential. Although "Superman" currently only appears as a comic series, CBS is confident that "Superman" will be adapted into a radio drama..."

The earliest radio content related to Superman was in the "Mercury Theater on the Sky" radio program hosted by Orson Welles on CBS.

Host Orson Welles asked "Who is Batman?" during the show.

At the time, CBS treated the topic as an impromptu performance by Orson Welles on the air.

However, judging from the response to the radio program afterwards, the audience responded enthusiastically to Orson Welles' question.

This also made CBS gradually pay attention to Batman, or the comic "Superman" behind it.

At the same time, it is related to the social unrest caused by the English tax in the previous serialization of "Superman" and the large-scale protest marches.

CBS immediately realized the potential behind the "Superman" comics.

At present, although CBS has relied on the popularity of radio, it has become a radio station all over the country.

However, in terms of influence, it has always been inferior to NBC.

This is an unacceptable fact for any broadcasting company that wants to develop, especially since BC has a history of competition with each other. In order to defeat NBC, CBS has made many efforts, and now persuading the Courier Newspaper to produce the "Superman" radio drama is one of CBS's attempts.

"Superman" radio drama?"

Radio drama was indeed not within Colin's previous thinking.

He had thought about making Superman comics, animated films and even musicals, but radio drama was indeed the part he did not expect.

If you think about it seriously, radio drama is indeed a good attempt.

Especially in the era of the Great Depression, television and movies were far from being as popular as in later generations, and radio became the most popular form of listening during this period.

And, seriously speaking, there is a deep connection between "Superman" and radio drama.

Among them, the most talked about is the birth of "Kryptonite", Superman's well-known weakness, which is actually closely related to radio drama.

The original purpose of the birth of "Kryptonite" was not to target Superman's abilities, but purely to give a vacation to Bud Collier, the voice actor of Superman.

In the "Superman" series of radio broadcasts at that time, because the voice actor Bud Collier was on vacation, the radio crew found another voice actor to make incomprehensible groans on the radio until Collier came back from vacation.

"The Great Luo of All Worlds"

In the play, in order to explain the occurrence of this situation.

The radio crew thought of the reason of "kryptonite", claiming that Superman lost his ability because of kryptonite, so this situation occurred.

Although the whole process was full of humor and perfunctory.

But unexpectedly, the audience who listened to the radio drama at that time accepted this setting, and it also laid the foundation for the later appearance of "kryptonite".

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