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We produce about two complete
comic books a day. It's like a production line. If you ever saw the old Charlie Chaplin
movie Modern Times, there was a scene where Charlie Chaplin
is on a production line and his job
is to do this with two wrenches while things come down
and he has to tighten the bolts and he goes home at night
and he's still doing this, you know. Well, sometimes we feel like that.
We don't even know what we're working on. The pages are just coming by and... "Proofread that. Change that title, "get the lettering out and finish." And off it goes. Two books a day. In those days, everybody was just
busy doing his work. There was a lot of pressure
to turn those things out in time. Because of the fact that
they don't get paid very much per page and that they have to do a lot of pages
a day in order to eke out a living, the artists would say
that they don't have a chance to really show how good they are. Sometime around then, Kirby left
comic books a day. It's like a production line. If you ever saw the old Charlie Chaplin
movie Modern Times, there was a scene where Charlie Chaplin
is on a production line and his job
is to do this with two wrenches while things come down
and he has to tighten the bolts and he goes home at night
and he's still doing this, you know. Well, sometimes we feel like that.
We don't even know what we're working on. The pages are just coming by and... "Proofread that. Change that title, "get the lettering out and finish." And off it goes. Two books a day. In those days, everybody was just
busy doing his work. There was a lot of pressure
to turn those things out in time. Because of the fact that
they don't get paid very much per page and that they have to do a lot of pages
a day in order to eke out a living, the artists would say
that they don't have a chance to really show how good they are. Sometime around then, Kirby left
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We produce about two complete
comic books a day.
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It's like a production line.
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If you ever saw the old Charlie Chaplin
movie Modern Times,
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there was a scene where Charlie Chaplin
is on a production line
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and his job
is to do this with two wrenches
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while things come down
and he has to tighten the bolts
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and he goes home at night
and he's still doing this, you know.
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Well, sometimes we feel like that.
We don't even know what we're working on.
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The pages are just coming by and...
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"Proofread that. Change that title,
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"get the lettering out and finish."
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And off it goes. Two books a day.
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In those days, everybody was just
busy doing his work.
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There was a lot of pressure
to turn those things out in time.
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Because of the fact that
they don't get paid very much per page
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and that they have to do a lot of pages
a day in order to eke out a living,
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the artists would say
that they don't have a chance
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to really show how good they are.
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Sometime around then, Kirby left.
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Movie Summary
100 years of dreaming. 100 years of creating. 100 years of Stan Lee.
