Marvel Worldwide, Inc. et al v. Kirby et al - Declaration of Neal Adams

Here's the first in a series of declarations from the Marvel vs Jack Kirby 's estate court case . Over the next few days I'll be posting all of the declarations - in no particular order, you'll read from Dick Ayers, Gene Colan, Joe Sinnott and Jim Steranko, but to kick things off, here's Neal Adams. You might have heard of Neal Adams, but if not then I'm not going into all of his credits here. Suffice to say that he's one of the most influential comic book artists of all time, and would only be shaded by Kirby himself as an artist cited by others. Neal also has a healthy respect for Jack Kirby, both as an artist and as a person. Adams might not have as large a body of work as what Kirby has, but he cannot be dismissed easily. The other aspect of Neal is his sense of fair play - he was there at the forefront when Siegel & Shuster first came out to expose how shabbily DC Comics had treated them over the years, and such is his worth to companies, b