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Sunday 25 May 2014

PART SIX OF NEAL ADAMS' BATMAN COVER GALLERY...

Pencils & inks by NEAL ADAMS. Copyright DC COMICS

Time once again to visit our spectacular gallery of NEAL ADAMS' stunning cover art for various BATMAN and related titles, such as DETECTIVE COMICS, BRAVE & The BOLD and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS, etc. I first read the contents of Batman #227 in the book, BATMAN From The '30s To The '70s, and managed to acquire the actual issue many years later. A true classic, in a similar vein to The SECRET Of The WAITING GRAVES, and I wish that Batman comics were as entertaining now as they were way back then.

The cover of Detective Comics #405 is very similar to The DEMON #2, and one can't help but wonder if KIRBY swiped the layout as they seem far too 'samey' for it to be coincidence. What's the old saying again? "Good artists imitate, great artists steal." (There are variations of the line, usually attributed to PABLO PICASSO.) If you want to compare the covers, click here and you can make up your own minds.

Anyway, enthralled as I'm sure you all are by my erudite and entertaining exposition, it's really the pictures you tune in here for, so I won't hold you back from them any longer. I'm as considerate as I am modest humble, shy and retiring, I'm sure you'll agree. Enjoy - and don't forget to leave a comment of appreciation for Mr. Adams' art. You wouldn't want him to feel ignored now, would you?! That would never do.

Pencils & inks by NEAL ADAMS

Pencils & inks by NEAL ADAMS

Pencils & inks by NEAL ADAMS

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About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

Copyright Notice:

Images remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are used here only for the purpose of review, promotion, and nostalgia.

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In the case of images culled from my own collection where copyright of an item isn't mine, I impose no copying restrictions on fellow bloggers.

(Although, if you don't allow copying on your own site, then you really shouldn't be copying from others, should you?)

And while you can credit this blog if you like, it's not mandatory. Who has time to make notes of every casually visited site during an idle browse of the internet?

In the case of anyone copying images of my own artwork and calligraphy, I affirm my right to be identified as the creator, and any such copying should not be for the purpose of monetary or material gain. (Unless it's mine.)

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