Geoff Johns Quotes

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

I always had a great history of comics. I've been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student of the craft.

I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

I do know that people enjoy reading a comic book and saving it and collecting the comics. And sharing them and trading them with friends. That may be something you can't do as easily with digital comics.

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.

As a comic book fan, I've seen all the comic book movies.

One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.

My brother had a big comic book chest, and he kept the key in the exact same place. So when he would leave for camp or be gone for a few days at a friend's house, I would totally sneak into that room and open the comic book chest and see 'X-Men' and 'Sandman' and all the Neil Gaiman stuff and all the Marvel stuff and some old 'Thor' comics.

It seems that most of the projects I'm doing with relationship to Marvel's 80th anniversary occur during my core run on the X-Men titles.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

I'm one of the biggest Ghost Rider fans ever. He's been a hobby of mine ever since I was seven years old. I actually have a whole room in my house dedicated to Ghost Rider memorabilia.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I know a lot of people that still buy comics, go to the shop every week, I know people who read them on an iPad. My brother reads on an iPad every week, he downloads his comics every week.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.