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This is the original storyline of Bizarro's appearance in the Superman comics, and Xu Fu did nothing to him.
Bizarro, as a comic book character, has never been just a villain. Xu Fu took him seriously and came up with an ending for his debut comic book that could move readers.
Xu Fu has already arranged to revive him again in a later comic strip, once readers accept Bizzaro's character.
Even the plot was planned this way: Luther would appear and impersonate Professor Dalton to trick Superman into playing another Bizarro.
As for why, Superman didn't notice Luther's disguise.
Stop asking. It's just part of the plot; that's how things were arranged in the original comic.
"Mr. Xu Fu".
Checkerville, a Fisher-Price toy factory.
Xu Fu saw a large number of Lego bricks being made using injection molding machines in the factory.
"We have made a batch of LEGO bricks according to your requirements."
Upon seeing Xu Fu appear at the factory, Hermann-Fischer greeted him first, as Xu had become Fischer's main partner in producing Superman dolls to date.
While welcoming him, Hermann Fisher also expressed his concerns.
"Fischer-Price just doesn't have a complete internal plan yet, and doesn't know how to sell these Lego toys."
Since the advent of wooden LEGO, sales of this toy line have been declining. Although Fisher-Price's content is somewhat controversial, given the ideas of the project's creator, Xu Fu, they haven't dared to voice many objections.
In any case, unlike the Superman dolls, the development of LEGO bricks was entirely led by Xu Fu, with Fisher & Payth only participating as a toy factory.
Even if the brand ultimately fails, the impact on the factory will not be that significant.
Even Marjorie and the girls began to consider using injection molding machines to make more popular toys.
While Margery was not optimistic about the future of LEGO bricks, he had great confidence in injection molding machines, a fact that became even more apparent when Fisher began mass production of LEGO bricks.
Compared to traditional toy workshops, casting machines are several times faster than manual production processes, and the toys produced are more uniform in size and shape. This is unimaginable in today's toy market.
Marjorie could almost foresee the impact these die-cast toys would have on the traditional toy market when they entered the market.
“You don’t need to worry about that. Fisher only needs to be in charge of Lego production.”
Xu Fu seemed ready to accept Hermann-Fischer's concern.
Of course, at 8 p.m., most listeners of the CBS radio drama "The Adventures of Incredibles," including Herman, learned about the sales of Lego bricks on the radio.
Announcer: "He possesses incredible and unbelievable adventurous qualities, is faster than a flying bullet, stronger than a locomotive, and even exploding bombs cannot penetrate his tough skin."
Passerby A: "Look at the sky!"
"It's Superman!"
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Since the first episode, “Bob the Kryptonian,” the radio drama “The Adventures of Superman” has been the number one listener in its time slot, and that number continues to grow. CBS is particularly excited that the radio drama has surpassed the popularity of its time slot rival, NBC’s show.
According to Wells, who is in charge of the voice acting, CBS already has a series planned about Superman's adventures.
The aim was to use the pulse of the radio drama to suppress other radio programs during NBC's broadcast time slot.
Of course, Xu Fu had no objection to this; the more popular a radio drama is, the more credible it becomes.
To some extent, he was naturally pleased that Superman's adventures continued, both in the long run and in the context of the series.
If he remembers correctly, radio programs about Superman have been airing on television for 11 years.
This fully demonstrates Superman's popularity in the broadcasting market.
The sixth episode of The Incredibles was still written by Xu Fu and aired on the radio that evening.
Originally, he planned to introduce Luther in the usual way in this episode, but he changed the order to accommodate the Lego bricks. The order of appearance was changed to Brynjak, the last alien villain who appeared in the comics not long ago.
Therefore, the title of the sixth episode of the radio series was changed from the previously confirmed evil genius Luther to the diminutive city of Kandor.
The plot is basically the same as in the comics.
However, since this was a radio drama, Xu Fu deliberately lengthened the plot and implied in the dubbing that Briniak, as an alien, should not speak in the tone commonly used by Earthlings.
Wells took his advice and specifically asked an actress from the Mercury Theatre to voice Brainiac, deliberately altering the timbre of her voice.
This resulted in listeners hearing Brainiac's voice on the radio receiver during later broadcasts of Radio 11, often with a strange tone that made it immediately apparent that he sounded different from the other person.
In this respect, the creators continued to try to ensure that Brignac's voice was as consistent as possible with the original radio drama's intent, whether in the production of the animated series or in the subsequent films.
Although the plot of the radio series "The Shrinking City, Candor" largely followed the comic book, Xu Fu deliberately added some extra embellishments to describe the Candor portion, which Wells accurately portrayed in the later radio dubbing.
Announcer: "Kandor in the bottle, what an incredible city! It was once the capital of Krypton, the largest city in the core, before Krypton was destroyed."
Announcer: "At some point, Briniak came to Krypton, saw the city of Kandor, shrunk it down, put it in a bottle, and made it his collection. Meanwhile, the more than seven million people of Kandor lived in this shrunken bottled city."
Narrator: "After the city of Kandor fell into the bottle, the Kandor people created an artificial red sun and artificial intelligence robots to help them live and farm in order to sustain their lives. Superman, guided by a Kryptonian scientist, saw these robots working in the fields and then tilted his head and discovered that the artificial sun was hanging high near the bottleneck of the bottle."
Superman: "That's amazing! How did you do that?"
Professor Jinda, a Kryptonian scientist: "Kandor has always been at the forefront of Kryptonian research. Before Kandor was scaled down, we were working on replacing Krypton's dwindling energy with an artificial sun. In fact, we were close to success at that time, but unfortunately, at the last minute, Kandor was scaled down by Briniak."
Kryptonian scientists: "But fortunately, we used the technology in the bottle to allow the people of Kandor to live normal lives."
In the radio drama's description, listeners have a vague psychological impression of the weakened city of Kando.
The appearance of Kandor also marked the end of the forty-minute radio drama. At the end of this episode, Superman, with the help of Kryptonian scientists, liberated the weakened city and eventually returned to Earth with Kandor in a bottle.
Immediately afterwards, the broadcast delivered closing remarks to the listeners regarding their unfinished expressions.
Passerby A: "Look at the sky!"
Passerby A: "This is a Superan!"
Announcer: "Superman is a copyrighted work serialized in the newspaper and magazine published by The Messenger. In addition, today you can purchase a Lego Cando toy and win a Cando map personally drawn by Superman author Hugh Hugh, which is available in major toy stores in New York City."
At the end of the broadcast, accompanied by Superman's signature article, announcer Orson Welles concluded the broadcast with information about Lego toy sales, promoting Xu Fu.
As a radio scriptwriter, Xu Fu naturally enjoyed special privileges.
CBS radio and he are currently working closely together when needed, so they naturally wouldn't refuse Xu Fu's request to air advertisements about Superman's adventures on their radio programs.
"LEGO Cando City".
Standing in front of the radio, Stanley heard the final announcement of the radio drama, and a look of longing flashed in his eyes.
He saw the serialized story of "Candy City" in a newspaper bought by a classmate and was deeply impressed by the shrinking city in the bottle in the comic.
As soon as he turned his head, he saw his father in the living room, cutting clothes on a folding bed, while his mother was sewing buttons.
Stanley knew very well that, given his family's current financial straits, he obviously wouldn't have the money to buy this so-called Candor City Lego toy.
Therefore, Stanley could only keep this expectation to himself, imagining that he would be able to buy many of the toys he wanted when he grew up.
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The broadcast of the radio drama "Superman's Adventures" not only increased the popularity of the comic book, but also gained Xu Fu's trust.
This was only part of Xu Fu's preparations, as the radio drama was being released concurrently with "SuperanQuarterly".
In the final issue of the quarterly, Xu Fu described the story of Kandor in more detail, even mentioning on one page that Superman met his uncles in Kandor before he met the scientists, and learned from them that he had a cousin named Carathor.
Superman believed his cousin had died in the destruction of Krypton and revealed this tragic news to his uncle's family.
But in fact, on the last page of the Superannuation Quarterly, Xu Fu deliberately drew a cartoon space, foreshadowing the information that Karasor was not dead.
In fact, this Kara-Zor is the famous Supergirl, Superman's cousin.
In the original story, when Krypton was destroyed, part of the city where scientist Zol lived was thrown into space, and the city's inhabitants survived because there was still enough air cover.
But without the protection of a planet, this city adrift in space would eventually face annihilation. So at the last moment, the Zor family sent their 15-year-old daughter, Kara, to Earth, the planet inhabited by the Kryptonians they had discovered.
This is also the original birthplace of Super Girl.
In this season of Superman, Xu Fu changed the setting, allowing Supergirl's parents to survive. He also used some of Supergirl's later settings, namely that when Krypton was destroyed, Kara's ship was following Krypton's ship, but when Krypton exploded, a meteorite hit her ship, causing it to deviate from its intended trajectory and enter a long hibernation period.
It wasn't until decades later, when Superman had grown up and met his uncle's family who had moved to Kandor, that he learned about Kara, which amplified the ambiguity surrounding Supergirl.
Of course, all of this was just Xu Fu's arrangement, and it would take a long time before Super Girl actually took the stage.
At least for now, Superman has enough villains to create a story, and the concepts and abilities of many superheroes have not yet been fully revealed. Even Batman is only a mysterious figure who appears on the surface in Superman's stories, giving readers some impression.
The image of Condo City in the radio drama and the Superan quarterly is clearly a prelude to the sale of Lego toys.
Xu Fu spared no effort in making the concept of LEGO as acceptable to the public as possible.
He not only advertised on the radio and in Superan's quarterly, but he also put a lot of thought into it. He designed the cover for the LEGO box with a LEGO-shaped Kando city as the background and Superman and Brainiac fighting at both ends to show the connection between LEGO toys and Superman.
Fortunately, the copyright to "Superman" was held by Xu Fu, so he did not need to grant authorization.
Otherwise, it would have to spend money just to have Superman printed on the box.
Inside the toy, Xu Fu also includes an instruction booklet called "Pictures of Candor City," which details some of the locations in Candor City within the Superman universe.
Yes, partly.
This is because Xu Fu's LEGO sets are sold in individual boxes, meaning each LEGO box represents one of the iconic buildings in Cando. For example, if someone wants to assemble a complete scaled-down version of Cando, they would need to buy at least five landmarks and put the blueprints together.
Through this assembly blueprint, buyers can obtain a Fisher-Price-made LEGO Superman model at a designated location, complete with a replica of the Candor City comic book scene.
However, this split-sales method has been criticized by 167 people.
However, to some extent, this is a major motivation for fans to buy LEGO toys. The sense of accomplishment from recreating the scenes described in the comic book radio show in real life will greatly encourage readers or listeners to participate in buying LEGO toys.