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" I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment. "

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Feel Good

Book

World

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

" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "

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

" 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. "

" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "

" As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good. "

" Some people don't realize that I did most of the 'Deadmans.' People don't know that I wrote two 'Spectres.' "

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

" I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island. "

" 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. "

" I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books. "

" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "

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

" 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

" I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. "

Neal Adams

America

Younger

" I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page. "

" 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! "

Neal Adams

Nothing

Said

" Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Kind

Limits

" Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. "

" It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper. "

" 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

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

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

" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "

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

" 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. "