American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

The information about the kidnapping case flashed in his mind.

Colin collected his thoughts and focused his attention back on the content of the broadcast.

In the TV program, the radio reporter in charge of the broadcast talked endlessly about the details of the kidnapping case and updated the latest developments of the case in real time.

Starting from the Charles kidnapping case, the radio began to intervene in the news broadcasting report.

Through a more convenient information transmission channel than newspapers, the radio easily gained a large number of listeners.

At the same time, after continuous exploration, the radio station has gradually matured in the way of news reporting, turning the textual news information into language information that is easier for readers to accept.

It is precisely because of this that some listeners who were accustomed to reading newspapers have also begun to change their listening style and turn to the radio to receive the latest reports.

There is no doubt that this practice of the radio station has undoubtedly touched the interests of the newspaper industry.

For this reason, the New York Times once published an article related to radio.

In the report, it is said that radio has a "huge unknown power" and believes that the existence of radio is astonishing and almost anesthetic to the mind.

Although in this article, the New York Times also somewhat agreed that radio has the ability to bring families together, which is particularly important during the Great Depression, the overall tone of the article is clearly warning listeners to absorb information carefully so as not to be influenced by irrational "forces".

Not only the New York Times report, in fact, from the news Colin received.

Major newspapers in New York have begun to plan a counterattack against radio, protesting against the TV station's practice of quoting newspaper news, intending to use this method to cut off the news channel of radio programs and force the radio station to compromise.

However, as a latecomer, Colin knows that this war between newspapers and radio will eventually end with the victory of radio.

The newspaper industry's method of cutting off radio news channels has led to the development of TV stations in a more independent direction.

With the establishment of radio news agencies, newspapers lost their means of control and eventually had to accept the advent of the radio era.

Compared with the resistance shown by his colleagues in the newspaper industry, Colin's attitude towards radio is very open-minded.

This is not only because the broadcast of radio dramas has brought him fame, wealth and [faith] gains.

Moreover, Colin, who clearly understood the direction of history, knew that the rise of the radio era was irresistible.

Just like the advent of the television and Internet era.

Therefore, instead of thinking about how to stop the development of radio with the group of people in the newspaper industry, it is better to cooperate with the radio station to obtain more benefits and advantages.

Anyway, the Messenger Newspaper did not have a good relationship with the newspaper industry.

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At six o'clock in the morning, after adjusting the angle of his collar in front of the mirror and looking at the increasingly dense beard at the corners of his mouth, Colin picked up the razor at hand and shaved his chin.

In a burst of harsh metal friction, the beard on Colin's mouth and chin in the mirror did not decrease at all, but the blade of the razor in his hand became bumpy.

Seeing this, Colin's face showed a helpless expression.

With the improvement of [Super Strong Defense (Bronze)], his ability in defense was further strengthened, but this was not all good. At least the problem of shaving became more and more troublesome.

Colin casually threw the razor into the trash can and touched the seemingly weak but surprisingly strong beard at the corner of his mouth.

From now on, with the strength of his beard, he basically said goodbye to the razor.

Shaking his head helplessly, Colin turned to the kitchen, took out a 12-ounce bottle of Coke from the refrigerator and drank it all. Feeling the faint refreshing feeling brought by the carbonated drink, he carefully controlled the strength in his hands and crushed the glass bottle in his hand into pieces. Colin then picked out a piece of the right size.

Holding the broken glass bottle fragments in front of the mirror, Colin touched the beard on his chin. With his eyes slightly hot, two small red beams instantly shot out from his eyes, and fell on the beard around Colin's mouth under the reflection of the surface of the glass fragments.

Controlling the power of the thermal vision, clean the beard on the mouth and under the chin, looking at the neat face in the mirror, Colin breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the hat on the table and put it on his head.

In fact, the issue of Superman's hair has always been a headache in comics.

In 1959, in the original comic story about the old Superman, there was already a plot about Superman with a long beard struggling with how to deal with his beard. In subsequent comics, there were more or less related plots, including the comic published in 1960, in which Supergirl and Super Dog Krypton helped Superman shave his beard with lasers.

In fact, in order to facilitate creation, the original version simply added a setting of no hair to Superman to avoid the trouble of beard.

And in the comics derived from this setting, there was a plot about Clark wearing a wig.

Because if Superman grows hair, the screenwriter must think about how Superman usually cuts his hair, so he simply makes Superman a person who only grows body hair but not hair, so as to stop the curiosity of readers.

Among the many settings, it was not until the 1986 "Man of Steel" that the plot of how Superman shaves has a final conclusion. Just now, Colin used the method of thermal vision reflection, and this setting has become Superman's widely circulated shaving method in subsequent stories.

"Perhaps, I should consider adding this setting to the comics."

Colin touched his smooth chin under the effect of thermal vision, and thought about it.

Compared with the setting of no hair, he personally prefers the method of thermal vision shaving.

Especially in Colin's cognition, the characters without hair in film and television works often tend to have a certain group of unique image identities.

He has no intention of moving closer to that role, so the setting of thermal vision shaving is better. Although it is a bit troublesome, it is also a very classic setting as a comic. I believe readers will like it.

...

"Mr. Lange Vorster?"

Early in the morning, Colin saw Lange Vorster at the door of the Courier.

"What's wrong? Did something happen in the factory?"

Looking at the figure standing at the door of the newspaper, Colin asked curiously.

At this time, Lange Vorster should be dealing with problems in the machinery factory in Brooklyn.

"Good morning, Mr. Luper."

Hearing Colin's inquiry, Lange turned around and greeted him, then smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that I don't want to stay in the factory, but a group of people blocked the factory from early in the morning and didn't allow our workers to enter, so I had to come to you."

If anyone wants Colin's mechanical factory to be online, it is undoubtedly Lange Vorster.

After all, only when the factory is open can the sales commission he and Colin negotiated be effective.

However, the current situation does not seem to be as smooth as imagined.

"Blocking in front of the factory?"

Hearing Lange Vorster's answer, Colin frowned subconsciously.

"Can you tell me more about the factory, Lange Vorster?"

"Of course, Mr. Luper."

From Lange's description, Colin roughly figured out the problems in his factory. It seemed that someone didn't want him to continue running the machinery factory in Brooklyn.

But who was it?

Colin pondered in his heart. With the development of the Daily Courier, the newspaper more or less touched on the reasons of certain people.

Among them were colleagues in the newspaper industry, or perhaps certain objects in news reports.

"Sir, I see that those people surrounding the factory don't look like workers. They dress more like gang members, and their behavior style is quite rough. Some workers wanted to argue with them and were almost beaten by this group of people, so..."

Looking at Colin who was obviously thinking in front of him, Lange Vorster hesitated and reminded him.

"Gang members?"

Hearing Lange's reminder, Colin had a general idea in his mind.

"Don't worry too much, Mr. Lange Vorster, I will take care of everything."

"But before that, I need to deal with some newspaper matters first."

After comforting Lange Vorster in front of him, Colin turned and came to the Messenger newspaper in front of him.

After handing the prepared serial to Jacob and explaining a few words to Old John in the newspaper, Colin walked out of the Messenger newspaper and nodded gently to Lange standing at the door.

"The boss is here!"

"It's the factory manager..."

It didn't take too long to get from the Messenger newspaper to the machinery factory in Brooklyn. When the two arrived at the factory, the confrontation continued.

Looking at Colin who arrived with Lange Vorster, many workers who were originally nervous couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

They were worried that the job they had worked so hard to get would be ruined.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

In front of the Messenger Machinery Factory, Colin explained to the workers with nervous expressions, and then cast his eyes on the people around the factory.

The suits and caps on these people also confirmed Colin's conjecture from the side.

Colin quickly locked onto a familiar figure in the lead after sweeping his eyes across the crowd in front of the factory.

On the other side, noticing the arrival of Lange Vorster and Colin, the crowd stirred a little, and soon the leader came out and said to Colin.

"Hello again, Mr. Colin Luper."

His eyes stayed on the leading man in front of him for a while, and he said calmly.

"So, this time you came for."

In response to Colin's inquiry, the leading man whispered an "invitation".

"The boss wants to meet you."

Hearing the invitation from the leading man, Colin glanced at the crowd in front of the factory, frowned and expressed his dissatisfaction: "If it's just a meeting, why in the factory."

"Sorry."

In response to Colin's questioning, the leading man apologized without sincerity.

"The boss has been waiting in the factory for a while."

As the leading man finished speaking, several figures wearing peaked caps appeared behind Colin, vaguely showing a tendency to surround him.

"Please come in early, Mr. Colin Luper."

In the distance, noticing the situation on Colin's side, some workers started to stir again.

"You don't need to remind me of this."

Ignoring the malicious figures around him, Colin casually patted the leading man on the shoulder, then turned around and walked around the man in front of him towards the factory.

"Boss?"

Looking at Colin leaving, the surrounding men turned their heads and looked at the leading man standing there, with some confusion on their faces.

They didn't expect that the man would do nothing and let Colin go by himself. He was not such a good person to talk to.

"Watch these workers and don't let them make trouble."

He said a few words to several people and waited for them to leave.

The man gritted his teeth and touched his shoulder, feeling the severe pain from his arm, and his entire back was soaked with sweat.

"How did he do it?"

While gritting his teeth and enduring the severe pain from his arm, the leading man was full of doubts.

He never thought that Colin's simple gesture of patting his shoulder without any special appearance would cause such serious damage to his arm.

In front of the factory, Colin swept the chain of the gate.

Looking at the clearly visible cutting marks on the chain, he immediately understood how these people broke into the factory.

Under the provocative gaze of several men wearing peaked caps at the door, Colin came to the factory expressionlessly.

As soon as he entered, he saw the figure of Charlie Luciano with his back to him.

"Mr. Colin Lupo..."

Hearing the footsteps coming from behind, Charlie Luciano flicked the cigar in his hand and said to him in a tone without any ups and downs: "Sorry, I disturbed you in this way."

He said sorry, but from Luciano's attitude, Colin did not feel the other party's apology at all.

While putting the cigar in his hand into his mouth and taking a puff, Luciano looked at the situation in the factory and said casually: "I didn't expect that Mr. Lupo also had ideas about factory manufacturing. There are not many people like you who dare to invest in manufacturing across industries at this time."

A machinery factory founded by a newspaper owner, even Charlie Luciano himself was surprised.

To be honest, he was not optimistic about the prospects of Colin's factory. Manufacturing was not a good business direction during the Great Depression. Charlie Luciano had many closed factories, most of which were manufacturing plants that went bankrupt due to the Great Depression. He transformed them all into underground casinos and bootleg liquor factories.

It was through the monopoly of bootleg liquor that Charlie Luciano gradually became the leader of the New York Mafia.

After all, the expansion of the gang requires money, and what business is more profitable than bootleg liquor during this period.

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