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" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "

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" 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?' "

" 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 created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment. "

" I want a Superman that men will look up to - that somehow he manages to go out and work out and add muscles to his body that he wasn't born with necessarily, but that developed - as a person who takes care of himself and takes care of his health. "

" It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes. "

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

" The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it. "

" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "

" Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you. "

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

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

" I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover. "

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

" 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. "

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

" One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there. "

" I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all. "

" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "

" 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. "

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

" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

" Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. "

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

" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "