Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 114 Unexpected Panic

"Hey, kid, hand over all your valuables!"

In the comics, Superman received a 'warm' welcome upon his arrival in Gotham City.

An armed robber stopped him and took his camera and everything of value on him.

"It's a chaotic city, just like real New York."

Looking at what happened to Superman in the comics, Little John couldn't help sighing.

The crime rate in New York has always been high, especially after the Great Depression, the economic recession has led more people to take the risk of crime.Even some desperate homeless, the reason for committing crimes is just to be put in prison.

Because there, there are walls that can block the wind, food to fill the stomach, and even specially prepared new clothes.

Of course, in real life, most people can only swallow their anger when facing robbers.

However, Superman clearly doesn't need to be in the comics.

Soon, Clark, who was robbed, changed into a costume and turned into an omnipotent superman to catch the robbery criminal.

Robber: "Who are you?"

Superman: "Superman!"

Standing still, allowing the robber to finish shooting the bullets in his hand, Superman appeared in front of the opponent with a dodge.

Superman: "Do you know the mysterious man who appeared in Gotham City?"

Robber: "I don't know what you're talking about?"

Faced with Superman's questioning, the robber was very reluctant to cooperate. Seeing this, Superman grabbed his arm.

Superman: "You have a tight mouth! I want to see if you can say it!"

The man in purple: "Let go of my hand!"

Seeing Superman grabbing his arm, the robber struggled and shouted.

Superman: "No problem, grab your feet."

Seeing this, Superman let go of his arm very "understanding", grabbed the robber's feet, jumped up and landed on the wire.

Seeing Superman grabbing himself and walking on the wire, the robber yelled in horror.

Robber: "Stop! Stop! We're going to be electrocuted!"

Superman: "No, we won't!"

Superman: "The little bird didn't get electrocuted sitting on the wire."

Grabbing the robber, walking on a telephone pole in Gotham City, Superman looks relaxed while the robber is already scared out of his wits.

Superman: "What's that, Wayne Enterprises? Let's go up there and see."

Holding the robber in one hand, Superman came to a tall building, and with a light jump, he flew to the roof of the Wayne Building.

Superman: "What a view!"

Robber: "Help! Help!"

Standing on the Wayne Building, the tallest building in Gotham City, Superman looked down at the night view of the city and sighed.Then he pointed to a tall building opposite, and asked the robber in his hand.

Superman: "I was wondering if we could jump all the way up to that building?"

Robber: "No! Don't!"

Facing Superman's proposal, the robber protested frantically, but Superman jumped over regardless, and the figures of the two were instantly engulfed by the night.

Superman: "Mistake, damn it!"

Immediately afterwards, on the last frame of the comic, there is only Superman's seemingly annoyed cry.

"what's next?!"

Watching this scene, Little John held his breath and turned over the manuscript paper in his hand.What appeared in front of him was the story about the prank king that he had seen before.

Seeing this, Little John couldn't help blurting out.

"What happened to Superman and the robber, who is the mysterious man in Gotham City?"

Many questions lingered in Little John's mind, but the cartoon in front of him didn't give him the answer he wanted.

"You're going to ask Mr. Colin next."

Stretching out his hand to snatch the manuscript paper of the manga from Little John, Jacob said while smoothing the wrinkles on the manuscript paper.

Colin handed him these sketches before he left, and if Little John wants to know the follow-up plot, he can only wait for the other party to come back.

"but……"

Facing Jacob's explanation, although he knew that what the other party said was reasonable, but looking at the comics in his hand, Little John still felt a little indescribable in his heart. Obviously, the story of Superman in the comics had reached a critical turning point. It stopped there, it was like scratching my heart with claws, it was unbearable.

That night, Little John was tossed and turned all night because of the plot of the cartoon.

The next day, that is, the weekend morning, readers who have been waiting for a long time.

Also on the "Messenger", I saw the latest "Superman" serial plot.

It's different from Little John who got a glimpse of the follow-up plot in the previous step.

What readers see in the newspaper is only the content of the previous issue of the story, which is the story of the appearance of the prank king.

Therefore, they are still a week away from the tossing and turning state of Little John.

Even so, when they saw the story in the series that the prankster tricked the right to use English to levy taxes on all English-speaking people, readers still sighed. They were shocked by the prankster's unconstrained crimes.

Immediately afterwards, he began to worry about whether such a method really existed in reality, which could allow people to cheat to obtain the right to use English.

At first, this was just a worry for readers of the manga.

However, soon after the "Courier" was released, people who saw this issue had the same idea, and as the story spread, it became more and more exaggerated, and finally even became a " Because of financial difficulties, Hoover signed the latest bill, a tax on all English-speaking people'.

Because of the rumors, New York City and the surrounding cities fell into panic, and the report on the radio program that night turned the matter into a national event, and media from all over the country also reported the news.For a while, people's anger at Hoover and worries about the imminent taxation occupied the pages of all the newspapers the next day.

Tens of thousands of complaint letters filled the mailboxes of New York City, and panicked people began to gather, wanting to march in front of the city hall to protest the decision of the English tax.

……

"... At that time, many people believed the cartoons in the newspapers, thinking that the government planned to levy English taxes on citizens. In front of the New York City government, a team of more than 1000 people marched until the mayor denied this fact. , the incident was able to calm down, this is a situation that none of us expected, it was from that time that we really realized that "Superman" has become a well-known cultural symbol to the public, "Superman" Comics have also become more popular after this incident, and everyone wants to see what the guy who caused the panic in the United States looks like..." - Excerpted from "1931 Superman and Me"

Author: John Walker
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