Batman: Illustrated by Neal Adams Vol. 2
Considered  the groundbreaking artist of the 1960s, Neal Adams was born June 6,  1941 in New York City. He attended Manhattan's High School of Industrial  Art and, while still a student, found work ghosting the Bat Masterson  syndicated newspaper strip and drawing gag cartoons for Archie Comics.  Neal received his own comic strip, based on the popular TV series Ben  Casey, in 1962. The strip ran until 1965 at which time Neal made the  move to comics for Warren Publishing and DC Comics. Neal's realistic  style on such strips as DEADMAN and GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW, at odds  with the more cartoony comics of the day, made him an immediate star. He  became DC's premier cover artist, contributing radical and dynamic  illustrations to virtually the company's entire line. Neal's work has  also appeared in Marvel's X-Men, the Avengers and Thor, on paperback  book covers, and on stage, as the art director for the Broadway science  fiction play, Warp. In the 1970s, Neal and partner (and frequent inker)  Dick Giordano started the art agency Continuity Associates out of which  came, in the 1980s, Continuity Comics. Neal is the winner of several  Alley, Shazam  and Inkpot Awards, and was inducted into the Harvey  Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.