I had a friend that argued ceaselessly that Neal Adams was the single most significant artist in comics history; he argued that the Silver Age ended the moment that Neal Adams did a comics cover, because his work could never definitively be "Silver Age."
And more and more, I find myself agreeing with him. You go back, you see covers featuring Superman and Batman playing pranks on Robin or playing baseball, and I say to myself, "Neal Adams would never do a cover like that."
We're talkin about Neal Adams, the guy who had Validus knock out Superboy in the "Fight for Championship of the Universe" to the shock and astonishment of gaping Legionnaires in ADVENTURE COMICS #366. The guy that had thousands of action figure sized Supermans turn on the real one with a face of contorted agony on Superman's face, on the cover of SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #135...this guy, Neal. HE would not have them bicycling together. No way, Jose.
Anyway, as a fan of Adams and his action covers or the way George Perez somehow fits a million figures in at once and they're all fighting World War VII, it may be hard for me to appreciate the snore-inducing pastoralism of these covers. It's a good thing WORLD'S FINEST got their collective spit together later on to produce such insanely eye-catching covers like "WHO IS REFLECTO..
AND WHY DOES HE WANT TO KILL SUPERMAN AND BATMAN?"Boy, I sure thought John Byrne was getting lazy in THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES when his panels were pretty much white space with a person in the center. (This especially got noticeable when the very background-detailed Jackson Guice took over penciling later on.) But Byrne on INDIANA JONES doesn't hold a candle to a lot of the Golden Age covers, where you've got Superman surrounded by yellow nothingness and maybe someone throwing a pie at him in a corner.
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