17 Quotes by Dan DeCarlo

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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