Just wanted to briefly note the passing of comic book artist Neal Adams recently at age 80. By the time I was reading comics in the 1970s he had mostly left the field for more lucrative advertising work, mostly being seen on an occasional cover or reprint, and of course in his influence. But one of his last major works in the decade was one that I picked up and still have, the "Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali" tabloid he co-wrote and penciled. A real audacious absurdity, a perfect epic for an eight year old. Over the next few years I would frequently see his work in various reprints, mostly the DC digests of the era, where his work would frequently be a highlight. He'd even get a rare named plug on the cover with Dennis O'Neil for one issue I read many times.
There were a number of early exposures to Adams that I read over and over for a few years, so by the time I got back into buying comics from direct market stores in the late 1980s among the first things I started to get were a few of the high quality reprints of his 1967 to 1973 heyday, including his Green Lantern / Green Arrow, Batman and Deadman stories.
Lots of images of his work all over the net, here are a handful of neat ones I pulled out, including a cover of Dave Sim's Cerebus, a few covers to 1980s reprints of his early 1970s work, a 1990s collaboration with Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier and a 1960s story with Archie Goodwin from Warren.
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