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" 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. "

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" The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out. "

Neal Adams

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller. "

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

" The great opportunity with Deadman was that you had a character that nobody had really done anything with - Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino created the character, which is terrific, but Carmine only did one issue with him - and it gave me a chance to do things that I hadn't seen done in comics all of my life. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" People lie when they get upset. "

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

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

" Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work. "

" 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. "

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

" I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons. "

" 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. "

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

" There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing. "

" 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?' "

Neal Adams

Book

People

" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "