American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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Reclaiming Coastal United Oil Company was a troublesome but important task, as he needed sufficient funds to proceed with further expansion, including the acquisition of Paramount.

After renewing [Silver Seal]'s contract, Xu Fu clearly realized that...

Comic books or radio dramas alone are no longer enough to sustain a million-follower [Faith] collection, at least not rapidly.

Therefore, the impending expansion of industries related to Superman is Xu Fu's next direction in the positive world.

Compared to print media, the film industry has a far greater global influence. A newspaper may only be seen by a few people at most, while a film can reach an entire theater audience.

However, Xu Fu currently does not have enough funds to complete the acquisition of Paramount.

As one of the eight major Hollywood film studios, Paramount's internal structure is extremely complex, and it simply does not have enough capital to justify acquiring the entire film company.

Today, Xu Fu does not have many suitable candidates to reorganize Paramount.

The connections he made with Holliday never fully materialized, and the current downturn in the film industry is not a good time to get involved.

"We'll have to wait a little longer."

Mentally giving himself a silent warning, Xu Fu stared at the square machine in the office.

This was the first generation of televisions produced by the Messenger Television Factory. Although the television patent with American Radio Corporation was still under review, it did not affect the factory's television production.

Ultimately, during the trial, the television patent right remained with Ferro Farnsworth, and the Messenger Television Factory was authorized to produce television products.

As one of the earliest industrial televisions, this device still has many obvious shortcomings in performance, such as picture clarity and signal reception.

During this period, very few radio stations produced television programs.

The television in Xu Fu's office was actually just a decoration, except for a few hours of live television broadcast on weekday evenings.

Even so, television sets are still quite rare items today.

Even the knowledgeable editors of The Messenger World were intrigued by this machine that could display images on a screen.

The editor-in-chief of The Messenger World visited Xu Fu's office several times to discuss the newspaper's staffing arrangements.

The duration of each discussion coincided with the time shown on television.

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It was with the passage of the Emergency Banking Act that the New Deal, symbolized by Roosevelt, began.

However, the truth is that no one, including FDR, has any idea about the future of the new policy.

Influenced by this wave of chaos, Xu Fu specifically brought it into comics through a series in the Messenger World.

The story tells of Superman's wandering in the universe, how he left the "bank world" and continued to wander in the vast universe. One day he came to a planet that was also floating in the universe and saw many different aliens.

Thanks to his superhuman abilities, Superman easily learned the aliens' language, and during a gunfight with one of the aliens who looked like a lobster, he learned about the history of this wandering planet.

A nomadic race—that's how the lobster defines the aliens living on this planet.

It turns out that these aliens left their planet for various reasons: they were expelled for violating the planet's laws, some lost all trace of their home planet overnight, and many others could not adapt to life on their planet and decided to expel themselves.

It's worth noting that when Superman hears a lobster alien mention his missing home, a familiar name instinctively pops into his head: Bregnac.

This description is very consistent with Bregnac's modus operandi.

These aliens, who wandered the universe, eventually gathered on a planet, which is the Rogue Planet where Superman is today.

Some nomads have settled here, but many others consider this planet a temporary home.

Chapter 875 Self-Exile

From these aliens living on wandering planets, Superman sensed confusion, bewilderment, and disbelief about the future.

The wanderers on the rogue planet seem to have no future.

Superman decided to settle on the wandering planet because he was exiling himself.

During his time living on the wandering planet, Superman gradually forgot about Earth and his Superman identity, and he seemed to become one of the millions of wanderers on the planet.

He grew a beard and began to become disheveled. The "wandering star" drifted through the universe during this period.

Drifting aimlessly in the infinite universe, Superman often stands atop the highest peak of a rogue planet, watching it drift through space. And sometimes, he wonders about his friend, the alien lobster, also a rogue planet.

Wouldn't they be interested in knowing where the wandering star would end up?

In response, the lobster alien told Superman that the aliens on the wandering planet didn't care because they were all wanderers, and the universe was just a bigger place of wandering for them.

And while Superman wanders endlessly, he too will drift through the distant and infinite universe with the wandering stars.

The Space Tyrant discovered the wanderer's planet.

Mongke: "What is it?"

Alien Slave: "A Wandering Planet".

Mongke: "From now on, it will no longer wander, because it has a new owner."

This powerful alien pilots a planet-sized mobile fortress called Warworld through the universe, forcing thousands of slaves to conquer alien planets and hold gladiator tournaments for him. He has his eye on the planet of Superman and the Gone Wanderers, wanting to conquer it and make it one of his many slaves.

Mungo's appearance forced Superman to join the fight to protect the planet of the wanderers and this cosmic tyrant.

And it was during this process that Superman realized...

Even after leaving Earth, he never gave up his superhero mission: to protect humanity and fight evil forces.

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From the very beginning of the Pocket Universe storyline, readers can clearly see that Xu Fu has brought the content of the Superman story into the universe.

Although some readers still expressed their love for the Earth storyline and hoped he would bring the story back to Metropolis.

However, more and more readers are drawn to the various alien stories depicted in Xu Fu's comics.

These stories that take place in the Wandering Universe were later referred to by readers as the "Superman Wandering" series.

In the "Vagabond" series, it can be seen that Xu Fu incorporates more real-world issues into the comic stories. From the previous "The World of Banks" to the current "Vagabond" series, this way of reflecting real-world themes is actually quite common in comics.

Many comics are actually based on real-life stories.

For example, the "Apple Mary" comic book series tells the story of an apple seller during the Great Depression.

This comic book tells the story of a once-successful man who was forced to become a street apple vendor during the Great Depression, thus helping his family through those difficult times.

Unlike the Superman story, although it is also based on reality, it cleverly incorporates plot elements.

Comic book readers may perceive a depiction of reality within the context of a comic, but more often they are guided by the content of the story.

In particular, when the wandering Superman reappears in the comics and reveals his superhero identity to the alien tyrant Mungo.

Readers can also feel the inspiration within.

“During the Great Depression, Xu Fu and the Superman he created became a beacon for the people, illuminating a confused era.”

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Besides the series of reports in "The Messenger World," Xu Fu has not given up on other ways to gain [faith].

As for Superman's licensing, there are now over a hundred Superman-related merchandise series. This is not a fraction of Disney's, but it ranks among the top in the same series of licenses.

Surprisingly, the most popular licensed merchandise isn't backpacks or masks.

Instead, they partnered with a soap factory to produce "Superman" soap using Superman as a mold, which unexpectedly became a hit.

There was even a market among housewives, many of whom wrote to soap factories asking them to produce more Superman-shaped soaps.

Xu Fu was initially puzzled as to why Superman soap was so popular among housewives, since it wasn't as eye-catching as most of the peripheral products.

However, an investigation by the Messenger World found that for the vast majority of families, Superman-related merchandise, especially dolls and Lego figures made in his image, remained too expensive and was a significant expense for housewives during this period.

In contrast, soaps featuring Superman are not only cheaper but also a practical alternative to children's toys, making them the preferred choice for many parents who cannot afford Superman dolls. To some extent, this decision is a helpless one in real life.

Realizing this, but certainly amused, Xu Fu then expanded his collaboration with the soap factory, licensing more Superman images to produce soaps. Not just soaps with flying Superman, but also soaps with heat vision, those that exhale freezing breath, and other soaps of various shapes and sizes, providing housewives with choices. Over time, many people had more than one Superman soap in their homes.

For Xu Fu, the purpose of watching was not only to generate income, but also to gain more [faith].

Since Superman's soap has such a purpose, he naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity.

"Alright, have you found your way back?"

Counterterrorism World, 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Inside the rebel base.

Banner rubbed his still stiff hands and asked the crowd in front of him.

As the power of the Dark Dimension dissipated, the power remaining in Dormammu also diminished. Finally, through Dr. Strange's magic, the Dark Dimension successfully restored him from his crystalline form.

"Stephen attempted to use magic to rebuild the original Dormammu's summoning spell."

Shaking his head, Captain Steve replied with a heavy expression.

Although Dormammu successfully left this world with the help of the mobsters and the Avengers, he clearly had no intention of taking the Avengers with him.

Chapter 876 Try

Or rather, Dormammu did try to take one of them with him in the end, but failed.

Thinking of this, Steve's gaze couldn't help but fall on Doctor Strange at the other end of the room.

This world is so different from the world he knows, and even the members of the Avengers are not like each other.