Cover Contest 4/11-4/17: Your Favorite Neal Adams Cover

[SuperCooper]

Didn't have internet last night and forgot to vote earlier, doh! But congratulations Kai, great cover!

[Chicken Pocket]

Way to go Kai "the spy"!

[Iron Maiden]

Congratulations, Kai the spy

And thanks whiteshark for voting for the Last X-Man cover I picked. Don't worry, Abe. I didn't let the orange "color" my judgement.

Neal Adams did so many great Batman covers so I sometimes forget the others he did. I had never seen that Conan cover before. For some reason, those Marvel magazines didn't hit the racks very often in my area.

[Raffi Ol D'Arcy]

Congratulations *Kai "the spy"!*

[Kirby101]

Congratulations Kai, that was a truly great Adams Conan cover.
And to those who voted for me, thank you so much.
I truly posted that cover because it is a treasured book to me and I wanted to share it.
That it almost won makes me very happy.

[Soubhagya]

Congratulations Kai the Spy! It was a great cover.

[CaptCleghorn]

Congratulations to Kai "the spy" for a cover which was a part of Marvel's expansion into other formats and one of the early signs they were out to conquer the world. (sorry, I got fixated on spherical objects for some reason).

As to what the captain has learned this week, he's realized that Neil Adams is a talented artist. No, not really. Like with Kirby last week, he kind of always knew that. Neil's an interesting person and folks interested in American comic book history should look more into the non-artistic stuff he's done and the stands he's taken. And yes, some of his ideas now (unrelated to the work I'm talking about) are unusual, but I actually liked Batman Odyssey.

Neil Adams was one of the reasons, I brought comic books into my adult life. Mrs. Cleghorn needs someone to blame.

[The Whovian]

Congrats Kai the Spy!

[Iron Maiden]

One thing I have admired about Neal Adams is that he is an advocate for the rights of the creators in his field. Years ago, he thought that forming a union would help. In 1978 he was one of the leaders of a group called the Comic Book Creators Guild that included Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Walt Simonson,Jim Shooter and a dozen or two professionals in comics. Ultimately it didn't pan out and was disbanded. He's also helped the push to get Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster compensation it the Superman case.

[Scott Taylor]

Nice cover, Kai! I had no idea Adams had done any Conan covers, it seems so against type for him.

[MRP]

Nice cover, Kai! I had no idea Adams had done any Conan covers, it seems so against type for him.

Neal has actually done a lot of Conan relatively speaking. he has done interiors on both Savage Sword and the regular Conan title for Marvel and did many covers, pin-ups, and interior front of back covers for Savage Tales and Savage Sword, and a lot of Neal's early portfolios released for sale featured savage barbarian themed art rather than super-heroes, so it was a genre Neal was quite fond of working in (or at least saw as profitable to work in).







-M

[MRP]

On the same theme, Neal did quite a few Tarzan paperback covers in the 70s too...



so he was no stranger to the savage warrior genre even though most comic fans associate him only with super-heroes.

-M

[Scott Taylor]

Wow, that Tarzan cover is way cool!

[Bryan]

Here is another great cover that was not submitted.

[The Darknight Detective]

Here is another great cover that was not submitted.

Yeah, that's easily on my short list of favorite covers. First time I ever saw the Al Ghuls, too.