Face Front, True Believers!

If You're Going To Write Something, That's Going To Be Read By People, A Lot Of People, You Hope It Will Not Only Entertain Them But Maybe Do Them Some Good In Some Way.

The Way I'm Doing It Is I'm Trying To Think To Myself, "okay, I Have The Name Superman, And He's Going To Be A Guy That Deserves The Name 'superman.' I'm Trying To Forget About Krypton, About The Daily Planet What Would I Do If I Was Thinking It Up?" I Can Do It Any Way At All..i Can Make Him An Eskimo Midget Who's Toothless And Blind... I Can Do Anything. It's Difficult .

... 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.

If I Were Retired I Wouldn't Know What To Do Because I'd Have To Think, Well, Now What Is It I Want To Do? And What I Want To Do Is What I'm Doing. I Enjoy Coming Up With New Ideas, Which If I'm Lucky They Might Be Good Ideas. I Enjoy Seeing Them Take Shape. And I'm Having Fun Doing It. So I Wouldn't Know Why I'd Want To Retire.

Comics Are Stories; They're Like Novels Or Anything Else. So The First Thing You Have To Do Is Become A Good Storyteller.