Top 30 Neal Adams Quotes

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 has a good time all the time. It’s really nice to be Neal Adams.

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.

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.

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 things people think about me is that I don’t do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I’ve ever done, they’re all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 think that we want to believe in Superman.

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.

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

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

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

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

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

I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it – Coney Island is my home.

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

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 did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That’s my idea.

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

Every business makes big mistakes along the way.

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

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.

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