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Comic Books Are Just A Way To Show A Story. Then There Are The Movies, And Television And Exhibits Like This That Take The Stories And Make Them Seem So Realistic. In The Comic Book, You're Just Reading A Story - Hopefully A Good, Exciting Story That Whets Your Appetite For All Of This Stuff To Come.

We All Wish We Had Super Powers. We All Wish We Could Do More Than We Can Do.

Virtually Every Kid Is Exposed To Giants And Ogres And Talking Wolves, And So Forth. And Magic. And I Think You Never Outgrow Your Love For Those Imaginative, Fanciful, Farfetched, Fantastic Characters And Situations.

Once, I'd Written A Western Story, And One Of The Panels Was Just A Hand Holding A Six-shooter, And There Was A Puff Of Smoke Coming Out Of The Barrel, And A Straight Horizontal Line, Indicating The Trajectory Of The Bullet. So That Page Was Sent Back To Me From The Code Office, Saying That The Particular Panel Was Too Violent. I Asked Them What They Meant, And They Told Me--i Swear--"the Puff Of Smoke Is Too Big." Well, Of Course. So I Had The Artist Make The Smoke A Little Smaller, And The Youth Of America Was Saved.

I Used To Be Embarrassed Because I Was Just A Comic-book Writer While Other People Were Building Bridges Or Going On To Medical Careers. And Then I Began To Realize: Entertainment Is One Of The Most Important Things In People's Lives. Without It They Might Go Off The Deep End. I Feel That If You're Able To Entertain People, You're Doing A Good Thing.