Before that time, I'd tried to write one or two strips for Julie Schwartz. I never thought of it as something I was likely to make a living in until the day I got a letter, this was in early 1965 at the age of 24, when I got a letter from Mort Weisinger, the editor of the Superman line coming to DC, offering me a trial job starting that summer as his assistant.

At what point in your life did you realize comics was your calling? There are different ways to break in and no two ways are alike. When speaking with creators, everyone has their own journey. We'll get the Forbush Man movie some time. I could do it, because I do head shots, it would just be a pot with eyes. Sometimes people leave it to me, and then I draw Captain Carrot. But I get The Vision, or Red Sonja and Conan. And those are two characters I didn't really write much at all. I co-created in a certain way, especially Wolverine, and Ghost Rider, I helped my wife, Gary Friedrich, Stan Lee, and Mike Ploog, all four of us working on it. The other is Ghost Rider, which is funny because they're not two characters that I wrote. And when I'm drawing, the thing I draw the most is one of the early masks of Wolverine.

But also, there's always a lot of Wolverine now that people know that I co-created that character. Roy Thomas: They had a lot of leftover copies of the Infinity Incorporated books, so I was signing a lot of the DC stuff. What book do you think you typiucally sign most these days? : I hear you just got back from the signing before we hopped on here.

Batman by Roy Thomas