From Archie to the Avengers, from Ben Casey to “The Brave & The Bold. ”He was to say; The Natural. The Best there ever was…The Best there will ever be.”
Neal Adams 1941 - 2022
He was a
creative force of tireless energy. That along with his mastery of drawing and artistic
innovation would cement his place in the history of the American Comic Book as
a true genius. The dialogue of what the form described and known by various names
including comic book / graphic novelization / sequential story-telling is (while in fact dating back to the dawn of humankind and civilization) has been altered from
Adam's time forward into the future by his countless contributions and
collaborations (chiefly with writer Denny O’Neil.)
Holocaust
survivor, Dina Babbitt would become the beneficiary of Adam’s fight for the
return of her artwork that she used in bartering for the life and survival of her
mother and herself during the Nazi reign of terror. The Auschwitz-Birkenau
State Museum in Poland has recently returned said works to Ms. Babbitt. These
are only a small portion of the Adam’s body of resolutions and the righting of selected
cultural and historic failings.
Sadly; Neal Adams passed on April 28th from complications of Sepsis, a type of blood poisoning. Adams was a man as legendary as the characters he created, developed and voiced within his visual stories. He was one with no legitimate rivals while possessing legions of admirers, supporters and friends.
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