“I was aware of everything Jack [Kirby] did from the time I was eleven. I’d tell my buddies, “This guy is great! Look at this stuff that’s popping out of the pages. Look at how he does that!” They thought the comics were some kind of tricky photo technique. They would say, “Aw, you’re crazy. Nobody’s going to do all those drawings by hand.”

– John Romita
Interview by Roy Thomas

[Hilarious. I agree — what kind of lunatic would do all those drawings, day-in-and-day-out, for years and years???]