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==Early life== Neal Adams was born June 15, 1941, on [[Governors Island]], New York City,<ref name=govisland/><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=M_bRZ_et8BIC&q=neal+adams+governors+island&pg=PA1 | title=!cons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman | page= 1 |editor-first1=Randy|editor-last1= Duncan |editor-first2=Matthew J.|editor-last2=Smith| publisher= [[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|year= 2013|location= Santa Barbara, California|isbn=978-0313399237}}</ref><ref name="GuardianObit">{{cite web |last1=Carlson |first1=Michael |title=Neal Adams obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/06/neal-adams-obituary |website=the Guardian |access-date=6 May 2022 |language=en |date=6 May 2022}}</ref> to Frank Adams, a writer for the military, and Lilian, who ran a boardinghouse.<ref name=NYTimesObit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/arts/neal-adams-dead.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|title=Neal Adams, Who Gave Batman a Darker Look, Dies at 80|author=[[Gustines, George Gene]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=May 4, 2022|access-date=September 12, 2022|archivedate=June 7, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607041319/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/arts/neal-adams-dead.html}}</ref> Raised in a military family, he grew up in a series of army bases, ranging from Brooklyn to Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Front Row Center with Howard Chaykin: Neal Adams|url=https://neotextcorp.com/culture/front-row-center-neal-adams/|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=NeoText|language=en-US|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030173345/https://neotextcorp.com/culture/front-row-center-neal-adams/|url-status=dead}}</ref> with his father largely absent from his life.<ref name=NYTimesObit/> Adams attended the [[High School of Art and Design|School of Industrial Art]] high school in [[Manhattan]],<ref name=natp3>{{cite book|title= The Neal Adams Treasury|publisher= Pure Imagination|date= 1976|location= Detroit, Michigan|page= 3|volume=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/489/|title= Gaspar Saladino β The Natural|first= Kirk|last= Kimball|date= n.d.|publisher= Dial B for Blog|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160418083343/http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/489/|archive-date= April 18, 2016|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all|access-date= February 11, 2012}}</ref> graduating in 1959.<ref name=NealAdamsEnt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nealadamsentertainment.com/pages/infocontact.html |title=Neal Adams/Continuity Studios: Biography |publisher=NealAdamsEntertainment.com |access-date=June 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006185001/http://www.nealadamsentertainment.com/pages/infocontact.html | archive-date=October 6, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
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