Legendary comic book artist Neal Adams, whose career spanned nearly 60 years and included revitalizing Batman and the Joker for DC as well as decades of work for artists’ rights, died early in the morning yesterday, according to his daughter-in-law Saori Adams.
He was 80.In 1969, Adams and writer Dennis O’Neil pulled Batman back from the campy persona he had gained on TV with a series of dark stories appropriate to the times.
During the period, the duo also re-grounded The Joker in his homicidal roots and revived Two-Face. They also created Ra’s al Ghul.
That character trio would, of course, become essential to Christopher Nolan’s multi-billion-dollar film trilogy for Warner Bros.
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