Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
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 Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That’s all I had, that’s all I brought. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
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 well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I’ve been there ever since. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
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 last long – it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half. Dan DeCarlo Read Quote
