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Post by tarkintino on Jun 16, 2021 22:21:06 GMT -5
No celebration of Adams' work would ever be complete without a nod to Green Lantern. In this case, its the novels Green Lantern co-starrring Green Arrow (Paperback Library, 1972) Short list of contents: Paperback 1 reprinted issues #76 ( "No Evil Shall Escape My Sight!"), #77 ( "Journey to Desolation!"), and "S.O.S. Green Lantern" (origin & 1st appearance of Hal Jordan/Silver Age Green Lantern) from Showcase #22. Paperback 2 reprinted issues #78 ( "A Kind of Loving, a Way of Death!"), and #79 ( "Ulysses Star is Still Alive!"). The 70s was a great time to be a fan of Adams' DC work, as it was frequently reprinted (and not long after the original publication). A little over a decade after the Adams/O'Neil run, DC reprinted their entire contribution to GL as seven Baxter Paper special editions (October, 1983 - April, 1984), with issue #1 featuring a two-page retrospective by O'Neil--
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Post by tonebone on Jun 17, 2021 9:42:13 GMT -5
Like lots of us, his art was a revelation and completely reconfigured how I saw superheroes. But when I encountered "Thrillkill" in Creepy #75, I was (pardon the expression) blown away by the visceral quality of his realistic style. I also greatly enjoyed his Tarzan paperback covers from the same period. And The Art of Neal Adams was a treasured Christmas gift circa 1976. It was nice to find that in person he's a pleasant, friendly fellow. And how can you not totally respect how he used his superstar clout in the Seventies to further creators' rights? What a guy! I was about 11 when I encountered that Thrillkill story.. it haunted me for years. I even wondered if it was real until Mr. Internet came along and I was able to find it online and get re-haunted by it. Pretty amazing when you see such a realistic style applied to such a monstrous subject.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 17, 2021 9:45:26 GMT -5
As everyone knows, Adams was prolific beyond the big two. First up is the cover for the Star Trek Book and Record "Passage to Moauv" (Power Records, 1975). Contrary to some sources, Neal Adams actually illustrated the cover, instead of one of the artists at his company then known as Neal Adams Studios. ...and his work graced a great number of ancillary market products. Below are some of the more memorable samples-- Clockwise: The Amazing Spider-Man model kit (Aurora Plastics Corp., 1967). Super-Friend Stick-Ons (DC/Our Way Studios, 1973). Superman and Batman Jigsaw Puzzles (American Publishing Corp., 1973). I believe I've read somewhere that the Supergirl licensing art (which appeared on Slurpee cups, among other items) was actually by Dick Giordano, co-founder of Neal's Continuity Studios.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 17, 2021 9:47:49 GMT -5
Allow me to offer some balloons. Verrry funny tonebone ... Ha Ha... glad to be of service. I'm just glad someone got the joke!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 17, 2021 10:02:27 GMT -5
Certain comic books/ covers always stay with us for various reasons and can conjure up a sense of time, place and emotion that never seems to fade. This one is one of the ones that never fails to do so for me. Just seeing this cover in ads during the summer of 1969 gave me hope. Somebody, somehow had seen fit to do something exciting with my longtime favorite, Green Arrow, and I couldn't wait to see him given a chance to become more than a back-up, B-lister, Batman wannabe. Adams had taken DC (and all of comics) by storm, and there seemed to be no character, no matter how staid, he couldn't re-invent without destroying. (And, yes, GA was apparently a pet project for Denny O'Neil, but there's no way he makes such an immediate impact without Adams' visual reinterpretation. I have no idea if the sales on B and B 85 increased noticeably over previous issues, but I'll bet they did. When you think of how big a character GA became and continues to be for DC, you realize just how important Adams was to DC in those early, explosively creative years of his career.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 17, 2021 18:24:12 GMT -5
A huge part of the Bronze Age, obviously (I think of him as one of the guys who really brought DC into the Bronze Age) and my second favorite all-time artist. Perhaps my first exposure to Neal Adams is the 1982 hardcover book pictured below, which reprints X-Men #55-57.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 18, 2021 7:35:21 GMT -5
A huge part of the Bronze Age, obviously (I think of him as one of the guys who really brought DC into the Bronze Age) and my second favorite all-time artist. Perhaps my first exposure to Neal Adams is the 1982 hardcover book pictured below, which reprints X-Men #55-57. I had that book, too - I bought it sight unseen from Lone Star's catalogue, where it was listed as "X-men British Annual" with a price of only a few dollars. I was delighted when the book came in the mail, because at that point I was a huge fan of Adams' art, and just as big a fan of the X-men (the Thomas/Adams material from the late '60s had an almost legendary status at that point). That same order, by the way, included the "Captain America British Annual" as well - which reprinted the three legendary Steranko issues. That was the first time I had seen those, and I was gobsmacked.
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