Dan DeCarlo Quotations

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

Archie was in the fold of all the other publishers that I was working for, and I was probably averaging one story a week from them.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

I was married, my wife was pregnant, and I just wanted to get out of the laboring bit and try to become an artist. I liked that all my life.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.