Happy 74th Birthday Neal Adams!

Neal Adams

born June 6, 1941

is Mr. 70's. He was the most significant creator of the 70's

 virtually representing the whole of that Bronze Age of comics.

Neal Adams with some of the most popular characters that he worked on like Batman, the Spectre, Green Arrow, and Deadman. 

Adventures of Deadman in the National Lampoon!

Ever since I read reprints of the Adams Deadman series I’ve been a passionate fan of all things Deadman. So one day while searching for Deadman related comics I found a crazy fun comic on E-Bay. It was a magazine size comic with the title “The Adventures of Deadman”. Well the character on the cover had a cape like Deadman but no mask. I didn’t know what it was but I knew had to have it!

Deadman's Adventure Comics!

About the time of the big DC Implosion of 1978, DC and Paul Levitz turned one of their oldest titles, Adventure Comics, into an anthology comic. It would feature some of DC’s more popular heroes like Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern and some fan favorites like the New Gods, The Justice Society of America and Deadman.

Adventure Comics #459, Oct 1978

Hey! A Jim Steranko effect! The hallucinatory effect on comics!

"Hey! A Jim Steranko effect!" Neal Adams formed the words using the mist lines radiating from the pit in his Deadman series.

I'm not sure what Adams was referring to because I don't remember Steranko ever spelling things out using visual effects, but he did do some pretty crazy/cool stuff in his day!

Deadman - My favorite Super Hero

The Great Comic Book Heroes

This blog is about just what it says, the great comic book heroes, all of them.