Neal Adams

Artist

65 Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

People lie when they get upset.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.

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!

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

'Avengers' was a great comic-book movie. 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a great epic.

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