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People lie when they get upset.
Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.
You don't get dead and there not be consequences.
Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.
Not too many people draw black people as well as I do.
I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.
I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie.
For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman.
'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic.
Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.
People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.
Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.
Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human.
Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes.
I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger.
'Avengers' was a great comic-book movie. 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a great epic.
The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it.
It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.
Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him.
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.
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.
What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.
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.
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.
I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.
To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important.
I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.
I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job.
'The Dark Knight Rises' does not beat 'The Avengers. ' The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie - to compare them is an empty exercise.
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 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.
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.
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.
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'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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.