There's Just Something That Feels Nice About

I Wanted Them To Be Diverse. The Whole Underlying Principle Of The X-men Was To Try To Be An Anti-bigotry Story To Show There's Good In Every Person.

I Hated Teenagers In Comics Because They Were Always Sidekicks. And I Always Felt If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way I'd Pal Around With Some Teenager, You Know.

You Remember When Tobey Maguire Was First Selected, Most Of The Fans Were Angry. They Felt, What Kind Of A Guy Is That For A Superhero? Nobody Thought It Was A Good Idea. Yet He Turned Out To Be Great. The People At Marvel Who Do These Things Are Really Pretty Smart. If They Chose This Guy, He'll Probably Be Terrific.

These Stories Of People With Unusual Powers And Unusual Appearances, Who Do Unusual Things, People Are Always Fascinated By Them.

Jack [kirby] And Joe [simon] Wrote And Drew The Stories Themselves In The Beginning And I Was Just, Like, The Office Boy. But After A While They Had More Writing Than They Could Handle And I Was The Only Guy Around, So They Said, "hey Stan, You Think You Can Write This?" When You're Seventeen Years Old, What Do You Know? I Said, "sure, I Can Do It!" And That Was It.