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He worked as a ghost artist for a few weeks in 1966 on the comic strip Peter Scratch ( 1965 – 1967 ), a hardboiled detective serial created by writer Elliot Caplin and artist Lou Fine.

Comics historians also credit Adams with ghosting two weeks of dailies for Stan Drake's The Heart of Juliet Jones, but are uncertain on dates ; some sources give 1966, another 1968, and Adams himself 1963.

As well, Adams drew 18 sample dailies ( three weeks ' continuity ) of a proposed dramatic serial, Tangent, about construction engineer Barnaby Peake, his college-student brother Jeff, and their teenaged sibling Chad, in 1965, but it was not syndicated.

Adams later said that writer Elliot Caplin, brother of Al Capp and Jerry Capp, offered Adams the job of drawing a comic strip based on author Robin Moore's The Green Berets, but that Adams, who opposed the war, suggested longtime DC Comics war-comics artist Joe Kubert, who landed that assignment.