Adams hame.

All over the netverse today, there have been tributes to one of the all time great artists, Neal Adams. (That link will take you to an interview with his long-time collaborator Roy Thomas.) For me, he was the ultimate Batman cover artist, with a favourite of mine being his Manbat covers. (And that link will take you to a previous post of mine with some Manbat covers.) 

Alas, I don't have access to my personal collection because they're gaining dust in a friend's basement in Toronto, and since I don't want to scam photos from the internet, I will offer what meager examples of his work I have on hand. Here thanks to the Showcase Presents collection, I present Adams' covers of The Phantom Stranger in glorious black and white! Feel free to print them off and get work on colouring them yourself.

Starting with Showcase #80. (If you'd like to see these in their full-coloured glory, go to the GCD.)

Followed by Issues 3-21...

     

     

     

     

     

     

(As an aside, #14 is probably my favourite of the bunch!)

     

     

     

If anyone would like to buy this for me, I'd be happy to show off the next 21 covers. 

I'm proud to say that this is one of the few series in which I've managed to score all of the issues, though they are languishing in that aforementioned basement, along with several of his Batman covers and most of his Spectre ones as well. Requiescet in Pace Mr. Adams and thanks for the many years of entertainment.