Iconic comic book artist Neal Adams died on Thursday in New York at the age of 80, family members say
Adams worked with both DC and Marvel comics in the 1960s and 1970s, drawing characters like Batman, Superman, the Avengers and the X-Men. He was one of the creative forces behind the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series of the early 1970s, taking on social issues such as drug addiction and racism. His son, Josh Adams, said in a Facebook post his father passed away at 2 a.m. Thursday morning.
"Neal Adams works on a sketch in New York in 2008. Adams was born June 5, 1941, and received his art training at the School of Industrial Arts in New York City, according to the statement.At the age of 21, he started drawing the Ben Casey syndicated newspaper strip and in 1967 he went to DC Comics, where he drew covers for war comics and contributed stories to The Adventures of Jerry Lewis and The Adventures of Bob Hope.
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