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" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "
Neal Adams
Being
Nothing
Kind
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" 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. "
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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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" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "
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" What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?' "
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" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "
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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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" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "
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" 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. "
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" You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man. "
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Everybody
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" I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. "
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Like
" Neal has a good time all the time. It's really nice to be Neal Adams. "
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Good Time
Nice
" 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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" 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. "
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" To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important. "
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Me
" 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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Look
Done
People
" I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover. "
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Believe
I Believe
" For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman. "
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" I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. "
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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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" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "
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" People lie when they get upset. "
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" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "
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" 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. "
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Sales
" Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. "
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One Way
Assume
" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "
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Bit
Different