I was hired to do as many Boy Commando,... by Gil Kane | We Heart Quotes

illustrator Spider-Man DC Comics comic book artist The Amazing Spider-Man

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

- Gil Kane

Other quotes by Gil Kane

Years Time

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

- Gil Kane

Time

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

- Gil Kane

First

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

- Gil Kane

Years Work

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

- Gil Kane

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

- Gil Kane

I was hired as a penciler.

- Gil Kane

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