Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 196 Kandor City

Superman: "Corks?"

Rubbing his head, Superman looked at the cork on the bottle.

Although the body has been shrunk, Superman's strength has not been reduced, and he uses super power to push the plug.

Superman: "Don't let Brainiac find out I got out of the bottle."

Superman pushed the stopper off, then put the stopper back on to avoid Brainiac's suspicions.

Superman: "This should be the stance device that Brainiac uses to resist attacks."

Immediately afterwards, the shrunken Superman quickly discovered the position generating device in the flying object, which is a pushing device that looks like a handle.

Brainiac: "Wait a minute, there's a buzzing fly in there, hit it, koko!"

Koko: "Squeak!"

Superman was planning to study the position generating device, but Brainiac noticed him flying around, and asked the monkey-like alien creature Koko to hit him with a fly swatter.

Snapped!
Superman: "Fortunately, Brainiac wasn't looking closely, but his pet kept chasing me, and I needed to find a place to hide."

To avoid being hit, Superman flew into an open bottle.

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

Looking at the city in the bottle, Superman felt inexplicably familiar, but then his flying body landed on the ground. It turned out that this city actually belonged to his hometown Krypton, and the original Krypton was copied in the bottle. Some gravity caused 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. It was installed by Brainiac before the star exploded.

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

Superman: "I'd love to do all of this, but I've lost my abilities, and the gravity in Kandor prevents me from flying."

Scientists led Superman to browse everything in Kandor City. They built aircraft that can fly in bottles, raised rare moles that can eat metal in glass, made robots that do farm work, and created artificial suns. Everything made Superman sigh.

Brainiac: "Fine, koko, just wait."

On the other hand, Brainiac has collected all the great cities on the earth and plans to return to his home planet. He and his pet Koko lie in the dormant cabin, and the two will wake up after 100 years.

Scientist: "My telescope saw Brainiac enter the hibernation chamber, which is not a good thing..."

Knowing all this through the telescope, the scientist hurriedly told Superman everything. Once the Brainiac hibernation starts, the entire control system will restart after 100 years. Married and had children, and Louise was already dead.

Superman: "Something has to be done, this can't be allowed to happen!"

Thinking of this, Superman made a decisive decision. He borrowed the aircraft and the metal-eating mole from the scientist, and opened the aircraft to the mouth of the bottle, allowing the mole to eat a hole in the bottle. Superman came out of the hole away from the gravity of Krypton. Superman He regained his super power, so he hit the corresponding button with his body according to the blueprint, and the metropolis recovered and returned to the earth.

Superman: "Now there's only one left."

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

Superman: "Compared to me, everyone in Candor needs to be restored to size."

After thinking about it, Superman was about to restore Candor City. Unexpectedly, a tiny spaceship hit the button, and the ray made Superman bigger.

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

Scientist: "Bryniac will not let it go. 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 can't shrink!"

Superman discovers that the scientist is in the tiny spaceship, and he has seen the same situation in the bottle, and makes a decision to restore the greatest hero on earth and continue to protect the safety of the earth.

Superman left Brainiac's aircraft with Kandor City and came to the Secret Citadel (secret fortress).

Superman: "I promise, one day Kandor will be restored."

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

The appearance of Brainiac left a deep impression on the readers, especially the scene where he shrunk down the cities of the earth one by one and put them into bottles. The reader exclaimed, and even once wondered whether the New York he was currently in had been shrunk into the bottle by Brainiac, but it hadn't been discovered yet.

Immediately afterwards, the appearance of Candor City gave readers more associations with the subsequent comic plots.

The technological level of Candor City far exceeds that of Earth, and through the observation of Candor City, they were able to see the degree of development of Krypton in the past.For the planet that gave birth to Superman, readers have always expressed strong good feelings. However, whether it is in comics or in radio dramas, they only make a simple description of Krypton, and most of its plots revolve around carried out the destruction of this planet.

The emergence of Candor City allows readers to understand the development of Krypton from another novel angle, how different this alien city is from the earth.

In the plot of Candor City, it is revealed that Superman's ability seems to be related to gravity. In Candor City with Kryptonian ecology, Superman cannot exert his ability, and once he leaves his ability, he will recover.

Does this mean that other Kryptonians who came out of Candor City can also gain abilities like Superman?
Regarding the setting of Candor City, Colin tried not to change it as much as possible, and the explanation for why Superman was unable to use his abilities in Candor City was actually explained as early as the original comic design. In the background, he mentioned that the source of Superman's ability is due to his physiological structure as a Kryptonian being different from that of Earthlings, as well as the differences between the two planets.

Colin didn'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 unlocked Superman's ability, he is not a Kryptonian himself. Even if the so-called Kryptonian gravity really exists, whether it is effective for him is still a matter of debate.

In any case, Brainiac's plot design has been greatly sought after by the readers of "Superman".

The design of the alien villain Brainiac not only expands the objects that Superman needs to fight against, but also allows readers to have more room for imagination for the follow-up plot.Not only do they want to see Superman fighting Luthor and other villains on Earth, but they also look forward to seeing Superman fighting in outer space.

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"The latest report shows that a serialized newspaper of the Daily Courier, which printed the image of the superhero villain "Bryniac" for the first time, was sold at auction on the 23rd at a price of 260 million US dollars, setting a record for the highest auction price of the fifth comic series in history. The online auction, which began two weeks ago, attracted 52568 bidders, with buyers and sellers unnamed."

"Since the person who bought the Daily Courier in 1932, who was only 13 at the time, bought it from a newsagent for 2 cents, the boy later forgot about it," said Stephen Fishler, owner of the auction site Comic Connect. , until he rediscovered it from his mother's basement in 1966, and kept it with him, hoping that it would appreciate in value that day."

"Although the circulation of the "Daily Courier" was huge at the time, there were not many newspapers that could be handed down intact. This classic alien villain, designed by Colin Luper, the father of 'superheroes', has always been widely loved by readers. The auctioned "Daily Courier" is the first time in the history of "Blainiac" comics The publications are of great collection value."

"The "Daily Courier" is the first to appear at an auction, and it is of great significance to collectors of "Superman" comics and historical researchers."

"Superman comics were originally created by Colin Looper and published in the Courier-Journal."

"Because of the social turmoil, high crime rate, and economic depression in the United States in the 20s, the superhero image created by Superman won the love of the American people once it was released, and became popular all over the United States. Therefore, there was a special issue of "Superman" later. , even animation, movies, and until now, Superman is still one of the symbols of American culture."

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[Ability - Heat Vision (Bronze)]

[Ability - Super Speed ​​(Bronze)]

Churchville, Fisher-Price Toy Factory.

"Mr. Colin Luper, are you all right?"

Herman Fischer and the others looked at Colin who suddenly stopped talking and showed a thoughtful expression, and then looked at each other and asked a question.

"fine."

Shaking his head, Colin withdrew his gaze from the looming text in front of his eyes, and said nothing.

The release of the "Daily Courier" unlocked two [Bronze] levels for him without any accident.

Under the prompt of the text, Ke Lin felt a little bit of the ability in his body, even under the suppression of the positive world, he can still exert some of his strength.

At least in the real world in the future, the function of [heat vision] can not only be used to heat food, but also can be used to light fire.

As for the other [Super Speed] ability, looking up at Herman and others from Fisher Toys Workshop, Colin's thoughts flowed slightly, and the surrounding speeds seemed to start running at a slow speed of 0.5 times. While watching, Herman nodded slowly in response, and then slowly stretched out his finger, pointing at the crude prototype in front of him, and said slowly: "So... So... Lu... First... ... born ... you ... of ..."

Looking at Herman, who opened and closed his mouth in front of him, speaking like a movie in slow motion, Colin raised his eyebrows and finished using the [Super Speed] ability. He found that listening to people in this mode was too strenuous A little faster, especially when the speed on his side is normal.

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

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

"Yes."

Nodding his head, Ke Lin stretched out his hand and patted the crude casing of the injection molding machine prototype in front of him. Since the establishment of a machinery factory, it is naturally impossible for Ke Lin to only use it to produce four-color double-sided paper offset printing machines. After this period of time, he finally found out the design drawings of the injection molding machine after sorting out the drawings in his mind, and put them into action. He successfully produced a machine driven by an electrical structure in the machinery factory. Injection molding prototype.

In the selection of injection molding machine technology, Kelin adopted a relatively mature two-stage injection molding machine, which is composed of screw plasticizer and plunger injection device, which is suitable for injection molding of thin-walled products.This is the structure of the injection molding machine that was invented by Jackson and Church until 1948, but it was completely reproduced by Ke Lin on his own prototype at this moment.

At the same time, on the choice of materials.

Originally, Ke Lin thought it would take a little time, but Langer told him that two years ago in Germany, a factory had started to commercially produce polystyrene raw materials.This is undoubtedly good news for Ke Lin. Through Lange's relationship in Germany, he contacted the BASF (BASF) chemical plant that produces polystyrene, and signed a contract to purchase polystyrene from them. Raw materials are used as raw materials for injection molding machines.

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

Therefore, Ke Lin is currently planning ahead, how to find an alternative manufacturer of polystyrene in the United States, or simply set up a factory by himself to control it from the source.

Anyway, the polystyrene production technology has a detailed process flow in his mind, and many of them are advanced patented technologies that have not been researched and invented in this era. If it wasn't for Ke Lin's focus on superman's [faith] acquisition Above all, whether Edison's title of Invention King can be kept or not is another matter.

After all, compared to Edison, the patent in Colin's hands has no problem at least in terms of time.

(End of this chapter)