A biography for Neal Adamshasn’t been written yet.
“I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers.”
“I want a Superman that men will look up to - that somehow he manages to go out and work out and add muscles to his body that he wasn't born with necessarily, but that developed - as a person who takes care of himself and takes care of his health.”
“The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that.”
“I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.”
“I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true.”
“'The Dark Knight Rises' does not beat 'The Avengers. ' The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie - to compare them is an empty exercise.”
“One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.”
“I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea.”
“I think that we want to believe in Superman.”
“I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons.”
“The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it.”
“I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment.”
“'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic.”
“Every business makes big mistakes along the way.”
“Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.”
“There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing.”
“People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great.”
“Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.”
“Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.”
“I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.”