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" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

Neal Adams

Girl

Live

" Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. "

" When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was. "

" I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all. "

" People lie when they get upset. "

" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "

" I think that we want to believe in Superman. "

" I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover. "

" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are selling trading cards, and people selling swords. It's not a flea market. "

" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "

" I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea. "

" Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you. "

" The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff. "

" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "

" One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there. "

Neal Adams

Know

Words

" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "

" For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman. "

" The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that. "

Neal Adams

You

Money

" It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes. "

" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. "

" I want a Superman that men will look up to - that somehow he manages to go out and work out and add muscles to his body that he wasn't born with necessarily, but that developed - as a person who takes care of himself and takes care of his health. "

" To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important. "

Neal Adams

Make A Difference

People

" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "

" I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers. "

Neal Adams

Kind

Limits

" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "

" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "

" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "