I started to do samples for Archie and I left my Fly samples there. While he did so, Adams said in a 2000s interview, he unknowingly broke into comics: Sympathetic staffers nonetheless asked Adams to draw samples for the Archie teen-humor comics themselves. At the suggestion of staffers, Adams drew 'three or four pages of the Fly', but did not receive encouragement from Simon. Career Early workĪfter graduation in 1959, he unsuccessfully attempted to find freelance work at DC Comics, and turned then to Archie Comics, where he wanted to work on the publisher's fledgling superhero line, edited by Joe Simon. Adams attended the School of Industrial Art high school in Manhattan, graduating in 1959. Neal Adams was born Jon Governors Island, New York City. 7 Advocacy of expanding Earth hypothesis.5 Dina Babbitt and work related to the Holocaust.2.6 Green Lantern/Green Arrow and 'relevant comics'.He is the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates and is a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.Īdams was inducted into the Eisner Award's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998, the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame in 2019. Neal Adams (born June 15, 1941) is an American comic book artist who helped design the DC Comics characters Batman and Green Arrow. Best Pencil Artist (Dramatic Division) (1970).

Best Individual Story (19, with Dennis O'Neil).Best Full-Length Story (1968, with Bob Haney).

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