Here's another Neal Adams Deadman page, from STRANGE ADVENTURES 209, Adams' 4th issue of the series:
I'd love to have the original art for this one framed and on the wall. Of all Adams' work, his Deadman series is arguably his most creative and innovative, the series where he most experimented with page design. Possibly Adams wanted to make a strong impression with his first regular series, and therefore poured all his energy into it. Or he was living his dream working in comics, as he had wanted to for 10 years despite attempts to discourage him, and having finally broken in, was just having a blast doing comics professionally.
Adams also did some work for CREEPY and EERIE in early/mid 1967, for about a year before he came to DC, and was doing whatever work he could get at DC to break in, such as BOB HOPE, JERRY LEWIS, and war story backups for OUR ARMY AT WAR 182, 183 and 186, paying his dues.
And an Elongated Man backup in DETECTIVE 369, before finally being given STRANGE ADVENTURES 206-216. And then WORLD'S FINEST 175-176, THE SPECTRE 2-5, and BRAVE AND THE BOLD 79-86 as regular series. And at that point, he'd set the world on fire with plenty of acclaim and could do pretty much anything he wanted to, at both DC and Marvel.
