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" As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good. "

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" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "

" I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island. "

" I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers. "

" To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important. "

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" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "

" I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller. "

" As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero. "

" I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea. "

" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "

" For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman. "

" The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out. "

" I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them. "

" I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books. "

" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "

" I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons. "

" There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing. "

" When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was. "

" When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! "

" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper. "

" Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. "

" I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. "

" What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are selling trading cards, and people selling swords. It's not a flea market. "

" People lie when they get upset. "

" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "

" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "

" Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work. "

" What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?' "

" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "