Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 155 Radio Drama Invitation

Bang!
Shrinking his body behind the shield, he landed on the ground with a slight landing sound.

The shield from Captain America perfectly offset the impact of landing.

Anthony twisted his neck and pinned the shield in his hand back, and turned to look at Hawkeye Clint opposite him.

"Master of imitation?!"

Looking at Anthony who appeared in front of him, Hawkeye frowned and said solemnly.

"It looks like you're the only one this time..."

The imitation master looked at Clinton who appeared alone in front of him, and said in a tone that could not hear any ups and downs under the silver-white skull mask: "I originally thought that there would be more people coming."

"what?!"

Hearing the words under the mask of the imitation master, Hawkeye's expression changed slightly.

Obviously, he has understood that this is a trap for the Dark Avengers.

However, before Hawkeye could make a counterattack, a gray phantom appeared behind him amid the faint sound of electric current.

Immediately afterwards, Clinton lost consciousness and plunged into darkness.

……

"The bug has been caught!"

Manhattan, 890 Fifth Avenue.

Inside the Dark Avengers base, Tony's voice suddenly sounded.

……

"CBS?"

Right in the world, inside the Messenger newspaper office.

Facing the invitation from the broadcasting company, Ke Lin showed a somewhat surprised expression on his face, but he was restrained quickly.

As stated earlier, the Great Depression was also the 'Golden Age of Radio'.

During this period, broadcasting flourished.

CBS was one of the radio stations that developed during this period.

In the early days, CBS also operated publishing, musical instrument manufacturing, toys and records, etc., and mainly paid for broadcasting, that is, when affiliated stations played radio programs, they had to pay.Later, after a series of reforms and reorganizations, CBS changed this strategy and decided that the affiliated stations could rebroadcast for free, and in return, they would take a certain commission from the affiliated stations' advertising fees.

Through this decision, CBS swept away the decline, accumulated a large number of loyal listeners, and became another national radio network station after NBC.

Recalling the relevant history of CBS in his mind, Colin looked up at the person in charge of CBS in front of him, and then asked: "So, the purpose of CBS is "Superman"?"

Apart from Superman, Colin really couldn't think of anything else in the newspaper that deserved the other party's attention.

"Yes."

Nodding his head, compared to the contemptuous look of the negotiator of the "World Journal" before, the person in charge of CBS is obviously much more sincere in his attitude.

Of course, this is also because the Messenger newspaper today is no longer what it used to be, and it is no longer the tabloid position that was still controlled by people in the past.

With the "Superman" serial, the "Courier" has become the second most popular newspaper in New York City after the "Journal of the World".

Although the "World Journal" fake Superman incident caused some troubles to the newspaper.

But in a way, it can be regarded as helping Ke Lin's "Courier" to increase its popularity.

In particular, "World Journal", as the well-deserved number one newspaper in New York City, is not comparable to the previous "Courier" in terms of number of subscriptions or audience.

But that copycat Superman invisibly helped the "Courier" to boost its popularity.

In particular, the comics about the 'Yellow Kid' created by Ke Lin in the serialization later bundled the "Courier" and "World Journal" together in disguise.

This is not of any benefit to the "World Journal", but it is obviously a great thing for the "Courier".

Sales of the Courier-Journal, at least, have grown steadily since that incident.

It is said that "World Journal" has internally discussed how to get rid of the bundle of "Courier".

"After unanimous discussions within CBS, it is believed that "Superman" under the Courier newspaper is a character with great potential. Although "Superman" is only serialized as a comic at present, CBS is confident that "Superman" will be adapted into a radio play..."

Radio content related to Superman was first broadcast on the "Mercury Theater in the Sky" radio show hosted by CBS Orson Welles.

The host Orson Wells asked "Who is Batman?" on the show.

At the time, CBS was just using the topic as an Orson Welles riff on the air.

However, in hindsight, judging by the response to the radio show, the audience responded enthusiastically to Orson Welles' question.

This also made CBS gradually notice Batman, or the comic "Superman" behind it.

At the same time, contact the social unrest caused by the English tax in the previous series of "Superman", as well as the large-scale protest marches.

CBS immediately realized the potential behind the "Superman" comics.

At present, although CBS relies on the popularity of broadcasting, it has become a radio station all over the country.

However, in terms of influence, it can only succumb to NBC.

This is an unacceptable fact for any broadcasting company that wants to develop, especially CBS itself and NBC have a history of competing with each other.In order to be able to defeat NBC, CBS has made many efforts, and now it is one of the attempts that CBS intends to persuade the Messenger newspaper to produce the "Superman" radio drama.

"The Superman radio show?"

Radio dramas were indeed not within the scope of Ke Lin's previous thinking.

He has thought about making Superman comics, animated movies and even musicals, but the radio drama is indeed a part he did not expect.

If you really want to come, radio drama is indeed a good attempt.

Especially in the era of the Great Depression, TV and movies were far from being as popular as later generations, and radio became the most popular form of listening during this period.

And, seriously, the connection between "Superman" and radio plays runs deep.

Among them, the most talked about is the birth of "Kryptonite", a well-known weakness of Superman, which is actually closely related to the radio drama.

And the purpose of the original "Kryptonite" was not aimed at Superman's ability, it was purely to give Bud Collier, the original voice actor of Superman, a vacation.

In the "Superman" series of radio broadcasts at that time, because the voice actor Bud Collier was on vacation, the radio crew found another voice actor and asked him to make incomprehensible groans on the radio , until Collier came back from vacation.

In the play, in order to explain the occurrence of this situation.

The radio crew thought of the reason of 'kryptonite', claiming that Superman was incapacitated by kryptonite, so this situation occurred.

Although, the whole process is full of funny and perfunctory.

But unexpectedly, the audience who listened to the radio drama at that time accepted this setting, which also laid the foundation for the emergence of "Kryptonite".

(End of this chapter)