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" 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. "

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" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

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

" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "