I Work With People And We Come

The Thing To Me That's Fun Is Trying To Make The Characters Seem Believable, Or Realistic. And It's Especially Challenging When You're Doing Fantasy Stories, When You're Doing Superhero Types Of Things.

I'm The Chairman Emeritus, And According To My Contract I Am Supposed To Devote 10% Of My Time To Working For Marvel... And The Rest Of My Time, I Can Do Anything That I Wish.

The Cliché I Tried To Avoid Was I Hated "teenage Sidekicks." I Always Figured If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way On God's Earth That I'm Gonna Pal Around With Some Teenager. So My Publisher Insisted I Have A Teenager In The Series, Because They Always Felt Teenagers Won't Read The Books Unless There's A Teenager In The Story; Which Is Nonsense.

The Movies Have Made The Comic Books Much More Valuable And More Respected.

I Hated Teenagers In Comics Because They Were Always Sidekicks. And I Always Felt If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way I'd Pal Around With Some Teenager, You Know.