Breaking: Comic Creator Icon, Neal Adams, Passes Away
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Not too many people in the comic book industry are bestowed with the title of iconic or legendary but comic book artist Neal Adams was both and then some. His art lifted comic book genre to new heights and reinvigorated characters like Batman, Green Arrow & Green Lantern. The way Adams would effortlessly create life like detail in his drawings was simply awe inspiring. It’s with great sadness today that I must reveal that Adams has passed away at the age of 80 years old.
Adams died Thursday in New York of complications from sepsis, his wife, Marilyn Adams, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Adams jolted the world of comic books in the late 1960s and early ’70s with his toned and sinewy take on heroes, first at DC with a character named Deadman, then at Marvel with X-Men and The Avengers and then with his most lasting influence, Batman.
He created new villains for the rogue’s gallery — the Man-Bat and Ra’s al Ghul as well as the latter’s daughter, Talia, who became Batman’s lover. The father and daughter, played by Liam Neeson and Marion Cotillard, were key characters in the trilogy of Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan.
Green Lantern/Green Arrow remains relevant decades after it was first published, with Hal Jordan serving as a police officer (granted, on a cosmic scale) and Oliver Queen standing in for a protester. Neither man was ever fully “right,” and that was the fun of their dynamic — but Oliver often forced Hal to confront a world far less black-and-white than his philosophy of “I’m going to punish rule-breakers” would have led him to on his own.
Adams is survived by his wife Marilyn and his son Josh, also a comic book artist, as well as include two other sons, Jason and Joel; daughters Kris and Zeea; grandchildren Kelly, Kortney, Jade, Sebastian, Jane and Jaelyn; and great-grandson Maximus.
Neal Adams will be missed….
