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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people don't realize that I did most of the 'Deadmans.' People don't know that I wrote two 'Spectres.' "