Neal Adams Quotes

Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have always really enjoyed. But the funny thing is that over time, I came to really like Red Leader; he became one of my favorite guys in the book. Sometimes characters surprise you.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. I grew up in Kansas City. And I walked into a 7-11. I had seen, like, 'The Hulk' TV series. I knew about comic book heroes. I knew about it, but I hadn't actually had a physical comic in my hands until that time. And it was a big deal for me.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.