Quotes from Neal Adams

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!

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

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

I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment.

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

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

I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.

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

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'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.

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

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.

I think that we want to believe in Superman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?'

I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page.