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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page. "

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

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

" The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that. "

" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" Neal has a good time all the time. It's really nice to be Neal Adams. "

" 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 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. "

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

" What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. "

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

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

" People lie when they get upset. "

" 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. "

" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially. "

" 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. "