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> [By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/by-the-end-of-the-50s-everything-began-to-collapse-and-little-by/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

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## More by Gil Kane

> [Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/coming-into-the-business-you-d-pass-through-these-little-agencies/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/i-was-hired-to-do-as-many-boy-commando-newsboy-legion-and-sandman/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/i-was-not-too-smart-and-constantly-mouthed-off-and-didn-t-know/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/i-think-the-lack-of-precision-and-deep-focus-is-why-it-took-me-years/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/in-other-words-dc-was-never-harmed-by-the-paper-shortages/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/i-just-saw-the-emotion-in-everything-so-i-got-to-feel-everything-that/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/it-was-exactly-an-assembly-line-you-could-look-into-infinity-down/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/dc-used-to-print-up-all-of-their-pages-they-were-the-only-company/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/by-the-end-of-the-50s-everything-began-to-collapse-and-little-by/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/all-of-the-penciling-was-consistently-done-by-one-person-and-the/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/but-generally-speaking-people-weren-t-fired-art-jobs-were-very-hard/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/most-of-us-came-out-of-popeye-so-turning-popeye-into-something/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/first-of-all-there-was-a-guy-named-charles-nicholas-who-used-to-do/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [I was hired as a penciler.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/i-was-hired-as-a-penciler/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

> [Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gil-kane/then-the-war-became-a-real-problem-and-along-with-other-shortages/)

[Gil Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gil-kane/)

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