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" 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. "

Neal Adams

Opportunity

Character

Life

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" Neal has a good time all the time. It's really nice to be Neal Adams. "

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

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Neal Adams

Know

Words

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

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

Neal Adams

America

Younger

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes. "

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

" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" 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

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

" 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. "