Neal Adams died a year ago today. I was around for the beginning of the silver age and collected all the Marvel books I could get my hands on, with great artwork by Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Dick Ayres, Herb Trimpe etc but it was the arrival on the comics scene of Neal Adams that really showed me how exciting comic book artwork could be. I met him a few times and he was as impressive a man as his artwork was.