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Hama assisted on Wood's comic strips Sally Forth and Cannon, which originally ran in Military News and Overseas Weekly and were later collected in a series of books. High-school classmate Ralph Reese, who had become an assistant to famed EC and Marvel artist Wally Wood, helped Hama get a similar job at Wood's Manhattan studio. Upon his discharge, Hama became active in the Asian community in New York City.

Hama's experiences in Vietnam informed his editing of the 1986-1993 Marvel Comics series The 'Nam. After high school, Hama took a job drawing shoes for catalogs, and then served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971, during the Vietnam War, where he became a firearms and explosive ordnance expert. Hama sold his first comics work to the fantasy film magazine Castle of Frankenstein when he was 16 years old, and he followed by collaborating with Bhob Stewart on pages for the underground tabloid Gothic Blimp Works. He was in the same graduating class as Frank Brunner and Ralph Reese. Planning to become a painter, Hama attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design, where one instructor was former EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein. Growing up, Hama studied Kodokan Judo and later studied Kyūdō (Japanese archery) and Iaido ( Japanese martial art swordsmanship). Hama was born June 7, 1949, in New York City. He co-created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro toyline. He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I.
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Larry Hama ( / ˈ h æ m ə/ born June 7, 1949) is an American comic-book writer, artist, actor, and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.ĭuring the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
