American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Superman: "Bottle cork?"

Touching his head, Superman looked at the cork at the mouth of the bottle.

Although his body was shrunk, Superman's strength did not decrease. He used his super strength to push the cork.

Superman: "We can't let Brainiac find out that I got out of the bottle."

Superman pushed the cork open, and covered it up after he got out to avoid Brainiac's suspicion.

Superman: "This should be the position device that Brainiac used to resist attacks."

Then, the shrunken Superman quickly found the position generating device in the flying object. It was a pushing device that looked like a handle.

Brainiac: "Wait a minute, there is a buzzing fly moving around there, hit it for me, Koko!"

Koko: "Squeak!"

Superman was about to study the position generating device carefully, but Brainiac discovered his flying around and asked Koko, an alien creature that looked like a monkey, to hit him with a fly swatter.

Snap!

Superman: "Fortunately, Brainiac didn't look closely, but his pet kept chasing me. I need to find a place to hide."

In order to avoid being hit, Superman quickly flew into an open bottle.

Superman: "This is it, why does it look so familiar?"

Looking at the city in the bottle, Superman inexplicably felt familiar, but then his flying body fell to the ground. It turned out that this city actually belonged to his hometown Krypton, and the bottle also copied the original gravity of Krypton, causing his superpowers to lose their effect.

Then Superman found a scientist in the bottle. After introducing each other, he found that the scientist and his father were college roommates. Superman told him about his experiences over the years, and the scientist also told him that this Kandor City was the capital of Krypton, which was installed by Brainiac before Krypton exploded.

Superman told the scientist about his current mission. The scientist said that he had already figured out Brainiac's device in this bottle for these years, and gave Superman a drawing that could help him turn the city in the bottle back to its original state. However, Superman also expressed to him his helplessness that he did not have superpowers now.

Superman: "I want to do all this, but I have lost my ability. The gravity in Kandor prevents me from flying."

The scientist led Superman to visit everything in Kandor. They built a flying machine that can fly in a bottle, used glass to raise rare moles that can eat metal, made robots to do farm work, and created an artificial sun. All of this made Superman sigh.

Brainiac: "Very good, Koko, all you have to do next is wait."

On the other side, Brainiac has collected all the great cities on Earth and plans to return to its home planet. It and its pet Koko lie in the hibernation capsule. Both will wake up in a hundred years.

Scientist: "My telescope saw Brainiac enter the hibernation capsule. This is not a good thing..."

After learning all this through the telescope, Superman hurriedly told Superman everything. Once Brainiac begins to hibernate, the entire control system will not restart until a hundred years later. Superman was surprised and worried that after a hundred years, everyone he knew in the bottle would have married and had children, and Louise would have died long ago.

Superman: "We must do something. We can't let this happen!"

Thinking of this, Superman made a prompt decision. He borrowed a flying machine and a metal-eating mole from a scientist, and drove the flying machine to the mouth of the bottle, letting the mole eat a hole in the bottle. Superman came out of the hole and was away from the gravity of Krypton. Superman regained his superpowers, so he hit the corresponding button with his body according to the blueprint, and Metropolis was restored and returned to Earth.

Superman: "Now there is only one left."

After restoring all the cities on Earth, the remaining energy can only be used once again, and you have to choose between yourself and Kandor City.

Superman: "Compared to me, the people in Kandor City need to restore their size more."

After thinking about it, Superman was about to restore Kandor City, but he didn't expect that a micro-spaceship hit the button, and the ray made Superman bigger.

Superman: "Doctor, why are you doing this?"

Scientist: "Brainiak will not give up. Once he wakes up and finds that all the cities he collected are gone, he will definitely attack the earth again. The earth needs protection, so Superman cannot shrink!"

Superman found that it was the scientist in the micro-spaceship. He also saw the situation in the bottle and made a decision to restore the greatest hero on earth and continue to protect the safety of the earth.

Superman took the city of Kandor away from Brainiak's aircraft and came to the Secret Citadel.

Superman: "I promise that one day I will restore Kandor."

...

As the first alien villain to appear in the "Superman" series.

The appearance of Brainiak left a very deep impression on readers, especially the scene where it shrunk the cities on earth one by one and put them into the bottle, which made readers who saw this scene in the "Daily Courier" at that time exclaimed, and even wondered if New York, where they were currently, had also been shrunk into the bottle by Brainiac, but it had not been discovered yet.

Immediately afterwards, the appearance of the city of Kandor gave readers more associations about the subsequent comic plot.

The technological level of Kandor City originally exceeded that of Earth, and their observation of Kandor City also allowed them to get a glimpse of the level of development of Krypton in the past. Readers have always expressed strong good feelings towards this planet that gave birth to Superman. However, whether in comics or radio dramas, Krypton is only briefly described, and most of its plots revolve around To carry out the destruction of this planet.

The emergence of Kandor City allows readers to understand the development of Krypton from another novel perspective, and how different this alien city is from Earth.

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In the plot of Kandor City, it was revealed that Superman's abilities seem to be related to gravity. In Kandor City, which has a Kryptonian ecology, Superman cannot exert his abilities, but his abilities are restored once he leaves.

Does this mean that other Kryptonians from Kandor can also gain abilities like Superman?

Colin tried his best not to change the setting of Kandor City. The explanation for why Superman was unable to use his powers in Kandor City had actually been explained as early as the original comic design. At that time, in the story In the background, he mentioned that the source of Superman's abilities was due to his physical structure as a Kryptonian being different from that of Earthlings, as well as the differences between the two planets.

Colin doesn't care too much about the weakness of Krypton's gravity.

After all, unlike Kryptonite, the entire planet of Krypton is gone. God knows what the so-called gravity is all about.

Besides, although he has unlocked Superman's abilities, he is not a Kryptonian. Even if the so-called Kryptonian gravity does exist, it is still unclear whether it will be effective on him.

In any case, Brainiac's plot design has been extremely popular among readers of "Superman".

The design of the alien villain Brainiac not only expands the objects that Superman needs to fight against, but also gives readers more room for imagination for the subsequent plot. Not only do they hope to see Superman fighting villains like Luthor on Earth, but they also look forward to seeing Superman fighting in outer space.

…

"The latest report is that a Courier Daily newspaper serial printed with the image of the Superman villain "Brainiac" for the first time was sold at auction on the 23rd for US$2.6 million, setting a record for the fifth highest auction price for a comic book series in history. The auction, which was held online and started two weeks ago, attracted a total of 52,568 bidders, and the names of the buyer and seller were not disclosed."

"Stephen Fishler, the owner of the auction website iect, revealed that because the person who bought the Courier Daily in 1932 was only 13 years old at the time, he bought it from a newsstand for 2 cents. The boy later forgot about it. He kept it until he rediscovered it in his mother’s basement in 1966, hoping it would appreciate in value that day.”

"Although the circulation of "The Daily Courier" was huge at that time, not many newspapers can be handed down intact. Most of them are included in museums, and "Brignac" is the first in the history of Superman. A classic alien villain designed by Colin Looper, the father of 'superheroes', has always been loved by readers. The auction of "The Courier Daily" is the first time in the history of "Brignac" comics publications, highly collectible.”

"The Courier Daily appears at auction for the first time, which is of precious significance to both Superman comic collectors and historical researchers."

"Superman comics were originally created by Colin Looper and published in The Courier."

"Due to the social unrest, high crime rate, and economic depression in the United States in the 1930s, the superhero image created by Superman gained the love of the American people as soon as it was released, and became popular throughout the United States. Therefore, the subsequent "Superman" special issue , even animations and movies, and to this day, Superman is still one of the symbols of American culture.”

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[Ability—Thermal Vision (Bronze)]

[Ability—Super Speed ​​(Bronze)]

Churchville, Fisher-Price toy manufacturing plant.

"Mr. Colin Looper, are you okay?"

Herman Fisher and others looked at Colin who suddenly stopped talking and looked thoughtful, and then looked at each other and asked.

"fine."

Shaking his head, Colin retracted his gaze from the looming words in front of him, saying nothing.

The publication of "The Courier Daily" unsurprisingly unlocked the [Bronze] level of two abilities for him.

Under the prompts of the text, Colin felt a little bit about the abilities in his body. Even under the suppression of the positive world, he was able to exert some of his power.

At least in the future, in the real world, [heat sight] can not only be used to heat food, but can also be used to light fires.

"The Romance of Fairy Wood"

As for the other ability of [Super Speed], Colin looked up at Herman and others in the Fisher-Price Toy Workshop, and his thoughts flowed slightly. The speed around him seemed to start running at 0.5 times the speed. Hearing the gaze, Herman slowly nodded in response, and then slowly stretched out his finger, pointing at the simple prototype in front of him, and slowly said: "So... Mr. Luper... you... "

Looking at Herman who opened and closed his mouth and spoke like a slow-motion movie, Colin raised his eyebrows and ended the use of the [Super Speed] ability. He found that it was too strenuous to listen to people talking in this mode, especially when his speed was normal.

"... Meaning, to produce Lego bricks through this machine?"

With the release of [Super Speed], the speed around Colin returned to normal again, and Herman's speaking speed also returned to normal.

"That's right."

Nodding, Colin reached out and patted the simple shell of the injection molding machine prototype in front of him. Since the mechanical factory was established, Colin naturally could not just use it to produce four-color double-sided paper offset printing machines. After sorting out the drawings in his mind during this period of time, he finally found the design drawings of the injection molding machine and put them into action. He successfully produced an injection molding prototype driven by an electrical structure in the mechanical factory.

In the selection of injection molding machine technology, Colin used a relatively mature two-stage injection molding machine, which consists of a screw plasticizer and a plunger injection device, suitable for injection molding of thin-walled products. This is the injection molding machine structure invented by Jackson and Church in 1948, but now Colin has completely reproduced it on his prototype.

At the same time, in terms of material selection.

Originally, Colin thought it would take some time, but Lange told him that there were factories in Germany that had begun commercial production of polystyrene raw materials two years ago. This is undoubtedly good news for Colin. Through Lange's relationship in Germany, he contacted the BASF chemical plant that produces polystyrene and signed a contract to purchase polystyrene raw materials from them as raw materials for injection molding machines.

Of course, this method is too cumbersome after all. Importing polystyrene materials from Germany is not cheap in terms of cost, not to mention that Colin, who is familiar with history, knows very well that with the outbreak of subsequent wars, the whole of Germany and even Europe will be caught in a war. At that time, even if he wants to buy polystyrene, it will not be as easy as it is now.

Therefore, Colin is currently planning how to find alternative manufacturers for the production of polystyrene in the United States, or simply open a factory by himself and control it from the source.

Anyway, he has a detailed process flow in his mind for the production technology of polystyrene, and there are even many advanced patented technologies that have not been researched and invented in this era. If Colin had not focused on obtaining superman's [faith], it would be hard to say whether Edison, the inventor king, could keep his title.

After all, compared to Edison, Colin's patents at least have no time problems.

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