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" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "
Neal Adams
Way
Business
Big
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" 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. "
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" I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them. "
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" When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! "
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" What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. "
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" As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero. "
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" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "
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Good
Different
" The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it. "
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World
" 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. "
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Look
Body
Care
" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "
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Being
Nothing
Kind
" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "
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View
Stories
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One Way
Assume
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" 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. "
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Superman
Remember
Character
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You
" One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially. "
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Done
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" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "
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Realize
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Afraid
People
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Before
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Paper