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" When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! "

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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

Remember

Ideas

Out

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" You don't get dead and there not be consequences. "

" People lie when they get upset. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them. "

" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "

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