Neal Adams

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

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

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

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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.

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I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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I think that we want to believe in Superman.

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

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

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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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People lie when they get upset.

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

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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.

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

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

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