17 Quotes by Dan DeCarlo

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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    Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

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    The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

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