Happy 80th Birthday Neal Adams!

Above, Neal Adams and yours truly at the 2012 Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles.

by Armand Vaquer

Neal Adams, the comic book artist who many (including me) consider to be the definitive Batman artist, turned 80 today.

Adams recently was released from the hospital after a bout with sepsis. Thankfully, he overcame it and is enjoying his birthday.

It is hard to believe Neal Adams is 80. Then again, it is also hard to believe that I'm 67. But, there you go.

I became aware of Adams's work around 1967 when he started drawing covers for DC's Superman Family of comic books. Then, he started doing some Batman/Superman stories in World's Finest Comics.

Not long after that, he started illustrating stories in Batman and Detective Comics. And, around about that time, he took over the illustrating chores for the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series of stories in the Green Lantern comic book. Adams also illustrated Deadman stories, some included Batman. Those were great reads.

I got to meet Adams at the 2012 Comikaze Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I was there as a panelist on Godzilla.

Adams is still very much artistically active and appears at numerous comic book and science-fiction conventions around the country.

A big Happy Birthday to Neal Adams!

Green Lantern (1960-1988 1st Series DC) #113 - February 1979 Issue - DC Comics

Green Lantern (1960-1988 1st Series DC) #113 - February 1979 Issue - DC Comics - Grade VG/F

Price $4.50 - Order Here

1st printing.

This comic book is in used condition. Comic is complete with cover and all pages attached. This comic has some flaws that warrant a VG grade.

Note: Smudging with color loss along spine. Gets heavier the closer you get to the top of the cover. Top left hand corner of back cover creased. Wrinkled area on back cover.

Comic Book will be shipped bagged and boarded!

Script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Frank Chiaramonte.

On Christmas Eve, a wounded Green Lantern must stop a mountain which is really a volcano from erupting and taking the lives of several people, including Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and a pregnant woman about to deliver her child.

Don't Expect To See The Joker In The New Green Arrow Movie

"Blade: Trinity" filmmaker, David Goyer, is steering clear of any Heath Ledger controversy in his new "Green Arrow" movie, his Joker won't even appear in the film.

Instead, Goyer's colourful villain will simply be referenced on a prison cell door.

The respectful director scrapped any visual reference of the real Joker after Ledger, who plays the bad guy in the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight", died from an accidental drugs overdose at the beginning of the year.

Goyer tells MTV News, "You don't actually see him, just his name on a cell... That's one cross-pollination we would stay away from."

But the director's "Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max" will feature at least one classic comic book baddie, Superman's arch-foe Lex Luthor. An unknown will be cast to portray the character who has been played by Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey on the big screen.