I Don't Expect Every Movie To Be

I Had A Publisher Who Felt Comics Were Just For Little Kiddies, So He Never Wanted Me To Use Words Of More Than Two Syllables.

That's What Everybody Tells Me. "i Would've Had A Great Comic-book Collection, But My Mother Made Me Throw Them Away." But When I Was Growing Up, My Mother Didn't Care. As Long As I Was Reading, She Didn't Care If My Room Was Filled With Comics. I Could Have Saved Everything. I Was Just Too Stupid To Do It.

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.

I've Been Very Lucky. All I Wanted Was To Pay The Rent. Then These Characters Took Off And Suddenly There Were Hulk Coffee Mugs And Iron Man Lunchboxes And The Avengers Sweatshirts Everywhere. Money's Okay, But What I Really Like Is Working.

I Hate Being Too Serious About Anything. If I'm With My Friend, I Want To Be Having Fun With Him Or Her. And If Anybody Is Reading My Story, I Want Them To Be Not Only Reading The Story, But I Want Them To Feel They're Having Fun; That They're Enjoying It. So Any Way You Can Make It More Informal, More Fun-filled, More Amusing - Instead Of Just A Dry Story That Goes On And On - If There's Any Way To Do That, I Like To Try And Do It.