Dan DeCarlo

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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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. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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

— Dan DeCarlo

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That's the problem today: Who is the creator? ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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

— Dan DeCarlo

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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. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

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

— Dan DeCarlo

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