His best-known works include Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman with Neal Adams. For Batman, the team are credited with returning the Batman character to his dark gothic roots, in contrast to the campy Batman television series of the 1960s. However, comics historian Les Daniels considers O'Neil's "vengeful obsessive-compulsive" Batman to be an original interpretation that has influenced all subsequent portrayals of the character. It was during this run that O'Neil co-created the Batman villains Ra's al Ghul and Talia al Ghul. During their Green Lantern/Green Arrow run, O'Neil and Adams introduced a mature, realistic tone through stories such as " Snowbirds Don't Fly", in which Green Arrow's young ward Roy "Speedy" Harper is revealed to have become addicted to drugs. They also created and introduced the Green Lantern character John Stewart in 1971. Adams believed the Earth is growing [119] through a process called pair production. [120] Adams held the work of Australian geologist Samuel Warren Carey in high esteem, but considered the term "Expanding Earth" a misnomer. [121] [122] While Carey did advocate an expanding Earth in the mid-20th century, his model was rejected following the development of the theory of plate tectonics. [123] [124] [125] Adams advocated his ideas in a DVD documentary he wrote and produced, clips of which are available on his YouTube channel. [126] [127] In The Batman Adventures—the first DC Comics spinoff of Batman: The Animated Series—a caricature of O'Neil appears as The Perfesser, one of a screwball trio of incompetent supervillains that also includes the Mastermind (a caricature of Mike Carlin) and Mr. Nice (a caricature of Archie Goodwin). The Perfesser is depicted as a tall, pipe-smoking genius who often gets lost in his own thoughts. [78] [79] Bibliography [ edit ] Comic books [ edit ] Charlton Comics [ edit ] Segura, Alex (April 2, 2010). "It's Official: Neal Adams on Batman: Odyssey". DCComics.com. Archived from the original on August 21, 2010. The Skeptics Guide podcast: Episode 51, July 12, 2006". Theskepticsguide.org. July 12, 2006. Archived from the original on September 24, 2008 . Retrieved June 17, 2010.

It was no secret that we were doing Batman right,” Adams said during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010. “It was as if the memory of DC Comics went along with the statements that both Denny and I were making, that we want it to be more realistic, more gritty. And that’s how we remember — whether it was true or not — that Batman should be. And when we did it, everybody went, ‘Ah, that’s it. We don’t need comedy anymore.'” McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 125: "In a story by scribe Arnold Drake and artist Carmine Infantino, circus aerialist Boston Brand learned there was much more to life after his death ... In addition, Neal Adams, the artist who succeeded Infantino with the second issue, would soon become an industry legend." Adams appeared on the radio show Coast to Coast AM several times to discuss his claims. [128] He was also interviewed by Steven Novella on a Skeptics Guide podcast in 2006, and afterward continued the debate on Novella's blog. [129] Japan Times columnist Jeff Ogrisseg wrote a three-part feature promoting Adams's ideas, [130] [131] [132] which was roundly criticized by Novella for being an example of "outright promotion of pseudoscience as if it were news." [133] Adams also used the concept as the basis for his Batman: Odyssey series, in which the planet's expansion has produced a Hollow Earth, the inside of which is inhabited by dinosaurs and Neanderthal versions of the main characters. [134] Personal life and death [ edit ] Dean, Michael W. (October 14, 2004). "An Extraordinarily Marketable Man: The Ongoing Struggle for Ownership of Superman and Superboy". The Comics Journal. 49 (263): 13–17 [16]. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006 . Retrieved January 14, 2012.In 2019, Adams was inducted into the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame for his lifetime achievement and outstanding accomplishments. [118] Advocacy of expanding Earth hypothesis [ edit ] Cronin, Brian (January 9, 2016). "Meta-Messages: A Heartfelt Bat-Tribute to a Legendary Comic Book Editor". www.CBR.com. Comic Book Resources . Retrieved June 13, 2020. After graduating college, O'Neil taught English in the St. Louis public school system for one year. [9] O'Neil spent several years in the late 1990s teaching a Writing for the Comics course at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, sometimes sharing duties with fellow comic book writer John Ostrander. [66] Personal life [ edit ]

a b Goulart, Ron (1986). Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books. Chicago, Illinois: Contemporary Books. p.297. ISBN 978-0-8092-5045-5. Adams, Neal. "New Model of the Universe". NealAdams.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2011 . Retrieved January 14, 2012. a b c d e f g h i Neal Adams interview (n.d.). "Neal Adams: Renaissance Man Part I". ComicsBulletin.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2008.a b Groth, Gary (June 24, 2020). "RATIONALITY AND RELEVANCE: DENNIS O'NEIL". The Comics Journal. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020 . Retrieved June 25, 2020. Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 159: "Roy Thomas conceived the initial idea of an alternate-future Earth sequel to H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds ... Neal Adams plotted the first story with a script by Gerry Conway and art by Adams and Howard Chaykin."

Coast to Coast with George Noory: Guests – Neal Adams". Coast to Coast AM. n.d. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016 . Retrieved January 14, 2012. Schumer, Arlen (1999). "The Greatest: Neal Adams and Superman vs. Muhammad Ali". Comic Book Artist Special Edition. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing (1). Archived from the original on June 2, 2013 . Retrieved July 4, 2013. Arlen Schuer: Do you feel Superman vs. Muhammad Ali is the best comic you ever did? McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 143 "Artist Neal Adams and writer Denny O'Neil rescued Batman from the cozy, campy cul-de-sac he had been consigned to in the 1960s and returned the Dark Knight to his roots as a haunted crime fighter." Ogrisseg, Jeff (November 22, 2009). "Top artist draws growing global conclusions". Japan Times. Archived from the original on February 2, 2012 . Retrieved January 14, 2012. Adams' first Deadman cover won the 1967 Alley Award for Best Cover. [108] A Batman/Deadman team-up in The Brave and the Bold #79 (Sept. 1968), by Adams and writer Bob Haney, tied with another comic for the 1968 Alley Award for Best Full-Length Story; and in 1969, Adams won the Alley Award for Best Pencil Artist, the feature "Deadman" was elected to the Alley Award Hall of Fame, and Adams received a special award "for the new perspective and dynamic vibrance he has brought to the field of comic art". [32]Adams' art style, honed in advertising and in the photorealistic school of dramatic-serial comics strips, [36] marked a signal change from most comics art to that time. Comics writer and columnist Steven Grant wrote in 2009 that,