After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

We decided that it'd be a great thing if somebody, alumni, would love to pay for these autographs, just to remember the week, ... Hopefully we can get someone to buy this and raise money for the Four Diamonds Fund and [the Interfraternity/Panhellenic Dance Marathon].

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.

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.