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

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" 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. "

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

" People lie when they get upset. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think that we want to believe in Superman. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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