Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 43 Cooperation
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Colin's weakened version of [Super Hearing] played a role, and heard a series of hurried footsteps approaching the direction of the newspaper office.

"boss……"

He subconsciously looked up at the door, and saw Little John's sweaty figure appearing.

"I have followed your instructions to investigate the nearby publishing houses." Looking into Colin's eyes, Little John's originally excited voice subconsciously lowered a bit. He took a breath and calmed down. Then he continued: "Generally, the business of these publishers is not very good. I asked specifically, and many of them expressed worry, fearing that they would be implicated..."

At present, the specific bill has not yet come out.

However, some magazines have already received a lawsuit from the US Postal Department because the magazine is suspected of being obscene and its content is not "public information".

Many publishing houses, especially small and medium-sized publishers, began to worry whether they would become the next target.

"In order to avoid possible jail time, many publishers are forced to adjust the content of magazines, but this also leads to a problem, that is, the loss of original subscribers. The most serious publishing house I have encountered is that the number of subscriptions to magazines is insufficient. It's less than two-thirds."

A reading group attracted by vulgar content will obviously not like a 'serious' magazine.

"So, have you done what I asked you to do?"

In the Messenger newspaper, Colin was serious about Little John's investigation, and then asked.

"We have already done."

Little John nodded: "They even couldn't wait to say that as long as the "Messenger" is willing to publish the comics in the magazine, they can do anything."

Colin's rejection of the publisher's proposal was not because he was unwilling to serialize "Superman" in a magazine.

On the contrary, with the serialization of comics, the sales volume of "The Courier" has gradually stabilized.

Therefore, he needs a new channel to increase the popularity of "Superman" comics, so as to gain more [faith].

Publishing a magazine is obviously a good way.

Before, whether it was "Famous Comics" or the Humor Publishing House, although they all showed great sincerity.

However, they were all rejected by Colin for various reasons, not only because of doubts about the conditions they proposed, but also because there was no guarantee that if "Superman" was put in the hands of others for serialization, whether the response obtained could also be transformed into [Faith] 】.

Now it seems that his decision was obviously correct.

The current situation may be a crisis for the large and small publishing houses in New York City, but it is a rare opportunity for Colin.

An opportunity to create a comic magazine belonging to the Courier newspaper.

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New York, inside a small publishing house.

Publisher Harry Donnelfield paced back and forth in his office with some uneasiness.

"Calm down, Harry."

Looking at the restless Harry Donnelfield in front of him, his colleague and partner Jack Leibovitz couldn't help but persuade him.

"How can I calm down..."

Hearing what his friend said, Harry stopped in his tracks, and said with a little anxiety in his tone: "Ever since the news about the damned Senate was published in the newspaper, the sales of magazines have plummeted. How many copies of the magazine have you sold? Three thousand copies, less than one-tenth of the previous one, if this continues, we will go bankrupt immediately!"

"I know, but this is not just our problem, everyone is the same." Hearing Harry's complaint, Jack said with the same helpless expression on his face.

In the past, publishers took advantage of the wave of the "yellow tabloid era" to make money by publishing vulgar magazines on a large scale.

But now, with the end of the "era of yellow tabloids" and the influence of policies, in order to avoid being imprisoned, I have to reluctantly abandon the original vulgar line of the publishing house and instead publish all kinds of fashionable and serious content, but encountered a large number of The original readers spurned it, and the sales volume of the magazine took a sharp turn for the worse, losing money again and again.

If things go on like this, the two will not be able to support the deficit of the publishing house at all.

"Simply, let's continue to publish the original content."

Thinking of the loss situation of the publishing house he saw in the morning, Harry couldn't help but twitched inside. He turned his head and glanced at the new issue of magazines piled up like a hill in the corner of the office, and couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

"If you want to live in prison, I have no objection to your suggestion."

"Even going to prison is better than going bankrupt, at least you can still eat food inside."

Although he said such words in his mouth, Harry didn't have the courage to really carry out what he said. He still had a big family to support.Once in prison, there was simply no way his family could survive the Great Depression.

Just when the two were distressed by the difficult situation of the publishing house today.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door from outside.

"Please come in."

A sudden knock on the door interrupted their conversation.

In the office, Harry and Jack looked at each other in dismay. Jack cautiously reached under the table and grabbed the handle of the gun, raised his head and nodded to Harry in front of him, and the latter calmed down and replied to the door.

Don't think that the reaction of the two is exaggerated. In fact, this is the most normal reaction in the Great Depression era.

Harry has witnessed more than once, on the streets of New York City, the robbers borrow guns from the police and share the spoils together after the robbery.

This is a chaotic and crazy era. Everyone is trying their best to survive. People can ignore everything for money. For those guys, uniforms are just a means of driving convenience. After all, The government has been arrears with their wages for a long time.

Then, the two saw that the door of the office was pushed open, and a man in a black windbreaker walked in.

He took off the hat on his head, revealing a young face with confidence and affluence rarely seen in this era.

"Good morning, Mr. Jack Leibovitz, Mr. Harry Donnefield."

Looking at the two people in the office, Colin ignored Jack's obviously abnormal sitting posture, put the hat in his hand on his chest, and greeted them calmly.

"I'm Colin Luper, the boss of The Courier. The main purpose of my visit this time is to discuss cooperation with the publisher about the magazine."

"The Courier! Colin Luper?"

"Cooperation?"

After listening to Colin's self-introduction, Harry and Jack looked at each other in dismay.

Putting the handle of the gun in his hand into the drawer, Jack at the desk chanted the name "The Courier", and asked with some uncertainty: "If I remember correctly, the Courier should be Is it the newspaper that serialized the comic book Superman?"

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