"I started off at the high level, in……" — Mickey Spillane
"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
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- I used to read comics when I was a kid. — Jeff Bridges