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

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

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

" I think that we want to believe in Superman. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man. "

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

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

" I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. "

" The great opportunity with Deadman was that you had a character that nobody had really done anything with - Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino created the character, which is terrific, but Carmine only did one issue with him - and it gave me a chance to do things that I hadn't seen done in comics all of my life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "