I Didn't Have An Affinity For Horror.

My Monsters Were Lovable Monsters. I Gave Them Names - Some Were Evil And Some Were Good. They Made Sales, And That's Always Been My Prime Object In Comics.

I Feel Like An Independent Man, And I Am. This Is The Kind Of Feeling I Always Wanted. You Can Rarely Get That... Well, I Could Rarely Get That In The Early Part Of My Life.

I Get A Lot Of Comics, And I Can Look At A Comic And Tell Immediately Whether I'll Enjoy It Or Not. There Are Elements In The Stories That I Have No Rapport With. I See Dirty Language, I See Sleazy Backgrounds; I See It Reflected In The Movies, The Movies Are Comics To Me. And I Don't See A Sleazy World. I See Hope. I See A Positive World.

Everybody Was Wary. This Was A Time When Communists Marched Through The Streets, Waving Flags And Shouting. The Unions Did The Same Thing So You Began To Associate Them.

You Had To Grow Up Sometime. The Fellows Who Grew Early, They Were In Jeopardy. They Became The Cops And The Crooks, And The Crooks Became The Gangsters. The Crooks Became The Al Capones.