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I was both surprised and saddened to read that Neal Adams died on April 28th at age 80, about 7 weeks short of his 81st birthday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Adams

After the deaths of Frank Robbins, Bob Haney, Irv Novick, Jim Aparo, Julius Schwartz, Dick Giordano, Archie Goodwin, Marshall Rogers and Len Wein, Neal Adams was the last of the creators who developed the 1970's-era BATMAN, DETECTIVE COMICS and BRAVE AND THE BOLD creature-of-the-night version of Batman , bringing Batman back to his earliest 1939 roots, and for my money the best Batman stories ever done.

Even age 80 is too young to die. But his work will live on forever.
Among many great works, I think Adams' work on Batman is his most enduring legacy. Needless to say, his work on STRANGE ADVENTURES / Deadman, his social issues work in GREEN LANTERN, the template he created in X-MEN that expanded into the Claremont/Byrne/Austin run, and many smaller masterpieces (Adams' influential issues of all these series linked above), as well as his efforts to improve the production quality of comics in nicer printing formats, and his push for creator rights and royalties, are all milestones by Adams that won't be forgotten either.

https://www.cbr.com/neal-adams-superman-fight-siegel-shuster-byline-credit/


Neal Adams widely published a newspaper ad, "Can Superman save his creators", that exposed the poor treatment of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, right before release of the 1978 Superman movie. Warner Communications was eager to silence that bad publicity right before the film's release, and largely due to Adams' efforts, Warner quietly gave Shuster and Siegel pensions, on the condition the two give no further public interviews.

https://www.inkwellawards.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/17_AdamsNeal_SiegelShuster-Superman.jpg

https://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2012/07/curse-on-superman-movie-look-back-at.html