Charles Soule Quotes

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

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

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

I ended up making my name at Marvel, but I've always desired greater access to the DCU characters. Bottom line: I'm a huge fan.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.

I love what Brian Azzarello did with Wonder Woman.

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

I would have really loved to have gone on a hiatus to write for Daredevil.

DC is the foundation of what we all know about comic books and heroes. They've had great storytellers, great illustrates, as a part of that tradition.

One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a challenge to every issue of 'X-Men.'

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

Marvel comics took a chance on me in my youth, allowing me to create so many toys in their sandbox.