Neal Adams has passed away17473
 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| Sad news. Every time I met him at a show it was a great experience. RIP Neal Adams. |
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 Where's his Bat-package?
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| I am so sad to hear this. Neal Adams was an artistic genius who elevated comics from 'kiddie-funny-books' level with his spectacular art. His work to establish creators' rights was the icing on an already considerable cake. What a shame. RIP to Neal Adams and condolences to his family and friends.  |
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| God speed good sir. | ||
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 It gets old smelling it everytime I go outside my door.
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| Neal was real. He didn't sugar coat anything. Told you like it was. Straight shooter. Introduced my teenage daughter to Neal a few years ago and asked him what advice he could give to her as an aspiring artist. He whipped out his light board and told her to get one. Lightboards are for tracing. Even old school pros trace some things. He told her she needs to practice with the light board because she would "have to draw everything". Going to be missed. Thanks for the memories.   |
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| Very Sad news. RIP Neal! | ||
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| Very saddened by the news. One of the most impactful artists in comics, period. RIP |
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WTF DAMMM GREAT GUY he was the one to get me to start getting books graded |
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| I was fortunate enough to meet Neal Adams once. I grew up knowing his art long before I knew his name. When I started collecting as a teenager in the 1980s I saw some of his books on the shelf behind the cash register. They were there because simply, "They are Neal Adams." I went on and bought books he had worked on as I could afford them. As I entered into being an adult I left comics, but then around 2014 or so I started collecting again. In 2017 I happened to see that Neal was coming to a con close to where I was living - Raleigh, NC. I decided I was going to go - simply to see him and have him sign a few of my books. I didn't care about much else - only getting his signature. I decided my son, who was six, was going with me. As soon as the doors opened we flew down and were the first ones standing at his booth. I introduced myself and shook his hand. We talked and I had him sign about six of my books. I also bought a few of his prints, which he also signed for me. As we were there, my son had brought a Transformers Megatron toy. It was a dark gray jet and had a button that if you pressed it, the robot head popped out. My son didn't care about Neal, although he certainly knew the name by this point in his life. Neal asked if he could see the toy. My son hesitantly passed his Transformer over to him, looking up at me as if to ask if it was ok to hand it to this strange man. I nodded, telling him that this man wasn't going to steal his toy. Well, Neal became fascinated with it. Neal would push the face down, then push the button so that it would pop up again, and then laugh at it - almost as if he were fascinated by the engineering of it. Well, we would meander the auction floor, and then my son would ask to go back to see Neal again. We worked our way back and then Neal would ask for the toy again. This process repeated itself about every 30-45 minutes all day long. We were there from the time the doors were open until the doors were closed. It reached the point where my son would reach up and just hand the toy to Neal and watch with elation as Neal made the head pop up again and again. I ended up with six signed books, which all went off for grading from that day - all were low-grade well-loved copies. It was my first submission for grading ever as I want those books to pass on to my son - one day. Since that time I emailed Neal on a semi-regular basis, although it has been quite a while as I write this. I had wanted him to do a sketch of some sort for me but never made that happen. But, after we returned home from our encounter with Neal we went to a local store and found an identical Megatron Toy, boxed it up, and sent it off to Neal as a gesture of thanks, and for his entertainment. Of course, I sent it signature required for delivery and I still have my USPS Delivery Receipt with Neal Adams signature with it. PDG |
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 I have a problem with fattening women up.
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| I don't have a lot of his books but this graded one is one of my most favorite covers of all time. The framed sketch was purchased under the description of a 5 minute batman sketch.... Never got around to framing the last art piece.    |
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| @Bronte - absolutely AMAZING sketch and that copy of 251 is absolutely STUNNING!!! Truly great pieces! PDG |
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 Hello, my name is Stu and I'm a shill.
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| RIP. | ||
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| There are a thousand great things to say about Adams, and I have stories too. But what I'd like to point out, is that although I hardly read mainstream comics any longer, I always picked up the short series that Adams wrote and drew. His writing style is worth mentioning also. It was unusually "abstract" in the way it would jump around and expect the reader to keep up with him. I imagine, not to everyone's taste, but I liked the challenge. | ||
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| RIP and thanks for all you did and helping us escape into your world when we were kids | ||
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 Neal drew a Batman on this Joker print for me a few years ago. He gave me the pencil that he used too. I was going to anchor it to the frame. Unfortunately I misplaced it. |
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| I have a few various comics I got signed by Neal (well, I didn't "get them" signed, I bought them from his store signed already), but I was always fascinated by his art. A couple of years ago I got him to do a special sketch of my granddaughter as Wonder Woman. He was so easy to work with, he just asked for a few pictures of her to get a feel for her personality, then I got a sketch in the mail a month or 2 later, it was amazing. My granddaughter doesn't really know what it is quite yet, but one day she will. I also got this original joker sketch from him around that same time:  I also literally got an email from MCS about 2 hours after I learned that Neal had died that 2 of my consignments books, with his sig, were ready to go. I'm now not sure I want to sell them. |
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Where's his Bat-package?
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| @xvipah That Joker is BOSS. | ||
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| Always loved Neal Adams and all that he has done to advance the comic book industry. My favorite thing about Neal Adams? He was a true Capitalist, RIP Neal |
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| That's rough to hear. R.I.P Neal | ||
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| Whaaaat? A giant.. |
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| Is why I say get em all signed and sort it later, the greats are getting few and far between...RIP Neal Adams | ||
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 Beaten by boat oars
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I met Neal Adams in 2015 (I think) at the Cincinnati Comic Expo. Surprisingly, there was no one in line waiting so I walked right up and he was extremely kind and talktative. We talked a little bit about his work and how I liked it and was trying to go back and see more of his DC work. At the time I was more familiar with his X-Men work than his DC stuff except for the big books. Anyways, 15 minutes later he signed a book that he probably doesn't see too often. I shake his hand and go on my way. RIP Neal.  (Sorry for the poor pic, I didn't have a better one) |
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 My only Neal Adams signed piece, good enough though! |
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 I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers).Splotches is gettin old! |
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| A bit off the beaten path. And a tribute to some of the other greats that worked with him. The Deadman Compendium Slipcase Hardcover. With additional signatures by some of the other greats in their own right as well as with collaborations with Neal. Carmine Infantino Denny O'Neill George Tuska Arnold Drake These were the great days of collecting/reading Edit: I actually believe all these sigs were free. It feels like an eternity ago  |
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| How's this for a coincidence? After reading and commenting here last night, I went to bed and continued reading the Doctor Strange Marvel Masterworks vol 282. In it is a reprint from Crazy Super Special 1982. On the contents page where that magazine's credits are listed is this: "NEAL ADAMS doesn't work for us, but maybe having his name here will sell a few copies." 'nuff said. | ||
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| Marvel’s Roy Thomas Remembers His ‘X-Men’ Artist Neal Adams as “Bigger Than Life” Thomas, who succeeded Stan Lee as Marvel Comics' editor-in-chief, was one of many showing their appreciation of Adams and shock over his death. BY BORYS KIT APRIL 29, 2022 5:53PM  Neal Adams’ death stunned the comic book world Friday, causing an outpouring of emotional from fans, both young and old. That included many comic professionals and filmmakers who worked with Adams or were influenced by the 80-year old icon. Artists such as DC publisher Jim Lee, painter Alex Ross, one-time mentee Bill Sienkiewicz and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro took to Twitter to pay tribute to the man who helmed bring Batman out of the kiddie comics world and the comedy stylings of the Adam West TV series to the dark and brooding and gothic tones that persist to this day. Another person feeling shock and sadness is Roy Thomas, the man who took the reins of Marvel Comics in the early 1970s after Stan Lee handed him the mantle of editor-in-chief. But prior to that, Thomas spent several years writing and steering many Marvel titles. It was when he took over writing chores on the low-selling X-Men comic that he first worked with Neal Adams. Their collaboration lasted only nine issue, nos. 56-63, plus no. 65, and was too late to save the book from being effectively canceled. But it left an impact and is considered an artistic achievement. The team, which included inker Tom Palmer, even won the best writer, best pencil artist and best inking artist Alley Awards in 1969, the recognition being a precursor to today’s Eisner Awards. In the early 1970s, Thomas, Adams and Palmer worked together for parts of an extended storyline in The Avengers known as “The Kree-Skrull War.” In recent years, Adams and Thomas quarreled over their recollection and exact contribution to their now classic stories, but as Thomas says in a post pinned on Facebook, Adams to him will always be warmly remembered as a friend and a master artist. The post from Thomas follows. I was profoundly saddened today to learn that my longtime colleague Neal Adams had passed away. The news, alas, did not come as much of a surprise as it might have at one time. He was, after all, less than a year younger than I myself am… and I had belatedly learned of his near-death from sepsis last year. Neal was one of the handful of great comic book artists to come out of the 1960s… or, it could well be argued, out of any decade. His work first on Deadman and the Spectre, soon on Batman, the X-Men, the Avengers, and the Inhumans at DC and Marvel expanded the range of what could be expected in comic art, as he combined the flourish of such action kings as Jack Kirby with the more realistic approach of such masters as Reed Crandall and others. Realism, romanticism, dynamic… Neal had a full quiver, that never went empty of new arrows to amaze and astound us. Working with him off and on for several years in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, I found him both an inspiration (in terms of talent) and a challenge (in terms of deadlines) to work with. We often had problems, we occasionally “had words,” but I think we always had respect for each other. One evening in late 1972, when I was at a low point in my personal life, my first wife having walked out earlier that day, I mentioned my situation to Neal in a phone call (I forget which of us called the other), and he was there 15 or so minutes later by cab, giving me friendship and comfort that I’ve always remembered and appreciated, even though the darker days that came between us only two or three years ago. Even after our exchange of increasingly hostile comments in the quasi-public sphere, amazingly, we retained a certain respect for each other, not just as professionals but as persons. We last encountered each other, in passing, at a premiere showing of “Avengers: Endgame” in New York City, one entering and one leaving the restroom. And despite the recent angry words, each of us said a polite hello to the other… and both of us were sincere in those sentiments. Some things—lots of things, actually—are bigger than comic books and the nebulous credits therefor. And I like to think that Neal’s and my relationship was one of those things. He’ll be missed, sure. How could he not be? He was, after all, a bit bigger than life, almost a force of nature. However, in another sense, it will be hard to miss him—because he’ll still be here, his artwork reprinted endlessly and deservedly, his influence radiating out directly and indirectly to affect new generations. He knew that, I believe, and so I cannot but believe that he went to his end a fulfilled man. None of us can ask for more out of life. Sometime, doubtless, I’ll write at more length about Neal. But this isn’t that time. This is a time to reflect on the greatness of the man as artist and presence. |
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 Pictures? We don't need no stinking pictures.
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RIP |
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