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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

In truth, I've never been a big superhero fan. I don't mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright - that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I've not really had much time for superheroes.

I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.

I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.