Books Quote by Sean Howe

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get…

— Scott McCloud

Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that…

— Jack Kirby

A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's…

— Stan Lee

When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were…

— David S. Goyer

“The publishers of Superman comic books, National Periodical Publications [later DC Comics], killed my days, murdered my nights, choked my happiness, strangled my career.…

— Jerry Siegel

I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

— Mark Waid

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story.…

— Zack Snyder

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are…

— Rob Walton

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the…

— Gary Frank

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.

— Elvis Mitchell

The thing is, the Superman comics have been around a long time, and so have the movies. They've done a lot of Superman movies,…

— Martin Campbell

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts…

— Richard Donner