Legendary comics writer and creator’s rights activist Neal Adams has passed away – Danger Room –

In yesterday’s session, 28 April 2022Neal Adams died in a New York hospital at the age of 80.† News of a new hospitalization from a New York writer has been circulating in the past weeks, after a scare that ended in hospitalization in 2021 and that he soon recovered. Unfortunately, this time the result was fatal and Neal Adams did not survive the complications of sepsis.

Its legacy, influence and importance in the history of comics is undeniable and undoubtedly it is. One of the most important figures in the history of American comics. His work as a screenwriter and particularly as a cartoonist, and his role as an advocate for the causes and rights of comics writers at one of the turning points in American comics, is undoubtedly a legacy that is unmatched. After joining DC Comics in the late 1960s, readers, editors, and his own colleagues quickly realized that he was dealing with an anatomy genius and a narrative genius, albeit elegant in composition and groundbreaking in the page approach that no one had dared to date. His work on Deadman shines in its own light amongst its first production.

He changed his years at DC Comics with a trip to the head of Marvel Comics. Drawing from TV shows like The X-Patrol of the Avengers during the classic Kree-Skrull War, The figure has been increasingly appreciated and its decision-making power and influence on the industry has increased every year. On his return to DC Comics and on the border between the 1960s and 1970s, with Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams revolutionized the mind (and perception) of Batman, reviving the character and several of his enemies, and inventing new concepts such as Ra’s Al Gul. These works will be followed by Green Lantern/Green Arrow. and the project leaping forward in time, superman vs muhammad It’s Ali that interests Neal Adams very personally.

In the 1970s, protest concerns made it Collaborate with Martin Goodman at Atlas Comicsconvinced the former owner of Marvel Comics to pay higher profits and return the originals to their employees. Having to please Adams and talent for his new business venture, Goodman accepted Adams’ demands, and the new creative terms Atlas Comics imposed was an industry breakthrough over other publishers, including the largest publishers. They joined the publishing house years later. Although, without a doubt, the main task he carried out was: Battle against Marvel and DC to recognize and financially reimburse the figures of Jerry Siegel, Joe Schuster, and Jack KirbyHaving Casa de las Ideas return the King to their originals in the late 1980s.

With the new decade of the 1980s and Adams copycats beginning to be reproduced in the industry. (exceeding the “heirs” of Kirby, Ditko or Buscema), Adams founded Continuity Comics, a company/packer serving various publishers and limiting collaboration with Marvel and DC. By this time, Adams had already had legend status, and that would not change in the 1990s and the new century, when Adams made several trips to DC Comics and revisited his own past projects, albeit far from his previous projects. But no one doubts the respect, admiration and love that his figure inspires for colleagues and readers, as well as the fear of the eldest and tyrants.

Rest in peace Neal Adams. And thanks for everything.