I Think People Have Always Loved Things

The Cliché I Tried To Avoid Was I Hated "teenage Sidekicks." I Always Figured If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way On God's Earth That I'm Gonna Pal Around With Some Teenager. So My Publisher Insisted I Have A Teenager In The Series, Because They Always Felt Teenagers Won't Read The Books Unless There's A Teenager In The Story; Which Is Nonsense.

I've Written So Many Things Over The Years That I Don't Want To Go Back To Being Just A Scriptwriter. I'm In What I Consider To Be The Enviable Position Of All I Have To Do Is Come Up With The Idea And Write An Outline That Makes It Seem Like It's A Viable Idea That Will Interest People, And Then Other People Write The Scripts -- And I Become The Executive Producer Or The Producer, Depending On How Much Involvement I Have, And I Get A Creative Credit And Then Move On To The Next Project.

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.

I Couldn't Afford [buying Marvel]. I Hope I Have Enough Money For Dinner Tonight!

I Think Superheroes Are Bigger Than Life And They're Very Colorful.