I Had to Make Sales

I'm going to Mars
I'm going to space

I see that story first
I feel that story first
I know those people first
When I put them down
They've already lived

I put them down as I'd like them to live on those pages
My stories are very sincere
My stories are people's stories
And there's elements of my stories that are very, very real
It doesn't matter what the subject is
And I've done stories in a wide range of subjects
My inspirations were the fact that
I had to make sales

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I put them down as I'd like them to live on those page
My stories are very sincere
I had to make sales
I put them down as I'd like them to live on those pages
My stories are very sincere
(I had to make sales)

And I had to come up with characters
That were no longer stereotypes
In other words, I couldn't depend on gangsters, I had to get something new
For some reason, I, I went to the Bible
I came up with Galactus

I put them down as I'd like them to live on those pages
My stories are very sincere
I came up with Galactus
I put them down as I'd like them to live on those pages
My stories are very sincere
I came up with Galactus

And there I was and, in front of this tremendous figure
Who I knew very well
Because I've always felt him and I
I certainly couldn't treat him in the same way that I would
Any ordinary mortal
And I remember in my first story
I had to back away from him
To resolve that story
And of course, the Silver Surfer is a fallen angel
And when Galactus relegated him to Earth, he stayed on Earth
And that was the beginning of his adventure
And they were figures that had never before been used in comics
They were above mythic figures
And of course
They were the first gods
And I began thinking along those lines
The new Gods evolved from those lines
And I began to ask myself
Everybody else had their gods
What are ours?
What is the shape of our society
In the form of myth and legend?
Who our gods?
Who our evil gods?
And who our good ones?
And I tried to resolve them in the New Gods
And I came up with some very, very interesting characters
And very good sales
Which satisfied me immensely

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I put them down as I'd like them to live on those pages
My stories are very sincere
I had to make sales
I put them down as I'd like them to live on those pages
My stories are very sincere
(I had to make sales)

It was a
A good and decent and honest way to make money
Doing things that I like best
Telling stories