Neal Adams Deadman in Strange Adventures #210

As most Adams collectors know, art pages from the short-lived (but amazingly wonderful) Deadman series in Strange Adventures are often at odds with more traditional superhero series. Deadman --- aka Boston Brand --- is given the power to possess any living being in order to track down his killer. Which means Adams (and others) needed to draw many pages of Deadman “inhabiting” the body of an unwitting civilian. Therefore the character is often at the heart of the action sans costume.

This is one of those pages, and it’s a great one. Four dynamic panels ---each a slightly different size --- of a straight out slugfest. (Deadman is typically identified with a little aura around his civilian host ---he’s the short-haired fellow without the moustache, getting his face smashed the first panel. And wow, when Deadman exits, that fellow is going to wake up very confused…)