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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. "
Neal Adams
Make A Difference
People
Me
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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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" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover. "
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" Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. "
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" Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. "
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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
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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. "
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Remember
Ideas
Out
" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "
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You
Before
Done
" Neal has a good time all the time. It's really nice to be Neal Adams. "
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Time
Good Time
Nice
" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "
Neal Adams
Had
Guess
Marvel
" 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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Believe
Looking
" 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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You
Look
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" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "
Neal Adams
Own
Bit
Different
" 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
" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "
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Draw
Black
Well
" I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. "
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Captain
See
" 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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Book
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Dark
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Superman
Think
" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "
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Dogma
Afraid
People
" 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. "
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Walking
Slow
" 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. "
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Long
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Other
" 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. "
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Woman
White
" 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. "
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Live
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