Originally Posted By: the G-man


Wasn’t Nasser an Adams protege?



Yeah, he worked for Continuity Associates for many years, and even had a partial credit in Adams' first issue of MS MYSTIC in 1982. After which Nasser claimed that Adams stole Nasser's idea for MS MYSTIC, and there was a bitter lawsuit that Nasser filed, unsuccessfully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Netzer

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In 1991, Netzer returned to New York and Continuity Comics, where he produced art for several issues of Megalith. He and Neal Adams entered into a dispute over intellectual property rights to Ms. Mystic, a character they had worked on jointly in 1977, which Adams had published under the Pacific Comics and Continuity Comics imprints, leading to a lawsuit against Adams in New York Federal Court in 1993.[23] The case was dismissed in 1995, citing the statute of limitations.[24][25]



Even artists with as distinctive a style as Rudy Nebres and Nestor Redondo, and needless to say Rich Buckler, ended up being identical clones of Neal Adams after a few years at Continuity.

I actually have thought that's added to Adams' legacy and influence in comics, is that he trained so many artists in the field (through Continuity) as to dominate the field for decades with so many drawing in the Adams style.
Sienkiewicz is another who worked for years with Adams. And even though working in comics since 1978, it wasn't until about 1984 that he broke out of the Adams style and developed a distinctive look. And when he developed a new look, that look is greatly an imitation of artist Barron Storey, who was an instructor of Sienkiewiz's.