“One day I bumped into Stanley Ralph Ross, one of the writers on Batman. I said, ‘Stanley, do me a favor. If you ever write something I’m going to work in, could you please make me a goon? I mean, I always play a goon, but I want the audience to be able to actually see that I’m a goon.’ Stanley started to laugh and said, ‘Get outta here!' When I got the script for the Penguin story, I saw that I was playing — surprise, surprise — G.O.O.N. #1.”