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" 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. "

Neal Adams

Feel Good

Book

World

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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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Neal Adams

Kind

Limits

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" People lie when they get upset. "

" 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

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

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

" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "

" 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

" 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. "

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