Comic Book History Quotes

As much as I love elements of Spider-Man's past, I don't really want to go back in and retell the Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin story in animation just so I can do my take on it. I don't want to redo the first 'Spider Slayer' story.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

Comics are so one-dimensional, especially 'Archie.'

I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

I wasn't really a deep-rooted comic-book dude.

I'd quite like to write a book about comics, actually. But trying to write about comics as literature, which I don't think anyone's really done before. Sometimes they're more like fan books, and I'd quite like to write one about the Marvel universe over the last 50 years. It's an unprecedented achievement to create that length of continuity.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.

I've gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a while, I'll take a look at something.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.