One Of The Keys Is, And It

... And We Talk It Out. Lately, I've Had Roy Thomas Come In, And He Sits And Makes Notes While We Discuss It. Then He Types Them Up, Which Gives Us A Written Synopsis. Originally - I Have A Little Tape Recorder - I Had Tried Taping It, But Then I Found No One On Staff Has Time To Listen To The Tape Again Later. But This Way He Makes Notes, Types It Quickly, I Get A Carbon, The Artist Gets A Carbon ... So We Don't Have To Worry That We'll Forget What We've Said.

Wherever We Find News, Excitement, Mystery And Adventure, There, Too, We Find The Newspaper Reporter. Always On The Alert For Something New, Ready To Risk His Very Life For A Scoop And Finding Adventure In Every Corner Of The Globe.

Some Artists, Such As Jack Kirby, Need No Plot At All. I Mean I'll Just Say To Jack, "let's Let The Next Villain Be Dr. Doom" ... Or I May Not Even Say That. He May Tell Me. And Then He Goes Home And Does It. He's So Good At Plots, I'm Sure He's A Thousand Times Better Than I. He Just Makes Up The Plots For These Stories. All I Do Is A Little Editing ... I May Tell Him That He's Gone Too Far In One Direction Or Another. Of Course, Occasionally I'll Give Him A Plot, But We're Practically Both The Writers On The Things.

To Be Honest, When I Was Writing These Stories A Million Years Ago, I Never Thought About Movies At All One Way Or Another. It Would Have Seemed Almost Miraculous For These Things To Be Movies Someday. To Me, They Were Just Comic Books That I Hoped Would Sell So I Could Keep My Job.

I Am So Impressed With People Who Can Really Make A Big Movie, A Good Movie. The Amount Of Work That Goes Into It Is Incredible.