What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
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… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
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… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
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… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
