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" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "
Neal Adams
World
Good
Different
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "
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Live
New
" 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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" 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. "
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Looking
" 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. "
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" It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper. "
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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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" 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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Toy
Selling
Sales
" 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
" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "
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Dead
Get
You
" 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. "
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You
More
Money
" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "
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Had
Guess
Marvel
" 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. "
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Opportunity
Character
Life
" I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. "
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Captain
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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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" 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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" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "
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Nothing
Kind
" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "
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Before
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" I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. "
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Younger
Like
" Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. "
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Wrong
One Way
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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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Good
Pay
" 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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Feel Good
Book
World
" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "
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Superheroes
Audience
Changes
" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "
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Black
Well