Neal Adams cover gallery thread. 14 14

[dover]

On 6/10/2023 at 9:06 AM, Sandflea said:

My slabbed Neal Adams covers:

 

 

R. I. P. Mr. Adams 

 

I am a wee bit jelly of that. 

[bronze johnny]

On 6/10/2023 at 9:35 AM, dover said:

Neal could draw anything but in a professional manner. Wrightson has that feel of actually "being" in the horror mindset; he drew from perspective.

Agree. Wrightson relied more on “instinct” given he was never formally trained and that “rawness” made his overall work on horror the best of that era. Still, the cover to Phantom Stranger 10 captures an atmosphere of horror at the highest level that is rarely seen outside of the magazine format. I’m a Wrightson horror fan and believe he’s the greatest horror genre artist of all time and that includes the precode and later Warren Magazine horror artists like Ingels, Everett, Craig, Davis, Frazetta, Cole (both), Ditko, Elias, Baily, Cameron, Morales, and Heck. That being said, I don’t see a cover drawn by Bernie better than what Adams did with Phantom Strange 10. It’s also Neal’s “Tomahawk 116 of Horror” in terms of covers.

[B2D327]

Happy Birthday, Neal Adams!
Finally got around to replacing this one

[dover]

This is nice.

[kimik]

Though not Bronze Age, here are two unique Adams covers I have. I spent a couple of hours talking with Neal during the Calgary Expo 2013 or 2014 since it was slow at his booth. To have some fun he used different techniques to do different parts of each sketch and he explained them to me and a couple of other people watching him work. @thirdgreenham got a great Sgt. Rock commission at the show as well.

 

 

[Jayman]

[bronze johnny]

On 7/2/2023 at 11:08 AM, Jayman said:

That’s a favorite of mine!

[Jayman]

On 7/2/2023 at 12:23 PM, bronze johnny said:

That’s a favorite of mine!

 Neal loved his gargoyles!

[OtherEric]

Picked up at my LCS today.  There’s some argument if it’s really a Neal cover, even if CGC labels it as such:

Edited July 29, 2023 by OtherEric

[nearmint]

Edited July 31, 2023 by nearmint

[nearmint]

[nearmint]

On 5/5/2023 at 9:54 AM, dover said:

 

Wow.  That brings back memories.  

[JTLarsen]

On 7/28/2023 at 8:35 PM, OtherEric said:

Picked up at my LCS today.  There’s some argument if it’s really a Neal cover, even if CGC labels it as such:

Cool. Congrats. I’m not aware of any authoritative source saying he did the cover, which looks different from his style as seen in the interiors.

[batmiesta]

[batmiesta]

[bronze johnny]

Wondering if Bats 240 (photo from GCD) is the only “exposed brain” cover ever drawn by Neal? Cool if it is!

Edited August 12, 2023 by bronze johnny

[themagicrobot]

Did you know that when Neal drew the cover art for Action 374 he included a bag of money bottom right. Which makes sense with the story being about Superman the super thief. Foreign comics often give a slightly different version of cover art as they move text around and add/subtract word balloons. This particular comic originated in Italy.

 

 

[Tec-Tac-Toe]

I like this cover.

 

[tedyun]

After a 30+ yr absence from my comic collection, I am rediscovering some of the books that I really valued when I was collecting as a kid to young adult. I had to give away the majority of my collection a few years ago, but I did keep key issues, runs and comics that were meaningful to me. I am still in the process of moving them piecewise across the country.

I was always a Neal Adams fan back then and now. I was also a big Flash fan when I was a kid, so this is one of my favorite covers. I think it is classic Adams in terms of composition -- seemingly infinite depth and inviting your eye to travel around the cover, from the pointed guns to Flash to the victim then the crowd, then finally to the buildings, traveling back to the guns. I love the colors -- the matching yellow and orange of the sky and the contrasting of the blue buildings and police uniforms. This comic isn't in the best condition -- hey, I was a kid! -- but it is a keeper, and made the cut!

Ted

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by tedyun

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 8/30/2023 at 10:10 AM, tedyun said:

After a 30+ yr absence from my comic collection, I am rediscovering some of the books that I really valued when I was collecting as a kid to young adult. I had to give away the majority of my collection a few years ago, but I did keep key issues, runs and comics that were meaningful to me. I am still in the process of moving them piecewise across the country.

I was always a Neal Adams fan back then and now. I was also a big Flash fan when I was a kid, so this is one of my favorite covers. I think it is classic Adams in terms of composition -- seemingly infinite depth and inviting your eye to travel around the cover, from the pointed guns to Flash to the victim then the crowd, then finally to the buildings, traveling back to the guns. I love the colors -- the matching yellow and orange of the sky and the contrasting of the blue buildings and police uniforms. This comic isn't in the best condition -- hey, I was a kid! -- but it is a keeper, and made the cut!

Ted

 

The "flash title logo" fits it well too  

Edited August 30, 2023 by ADAMANTIUM