Larry Hama is an American comic-book writer, artist, actor, and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
23 Facts About Larry Hama
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Larry Hama has written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra.
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Larry Hama co-created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
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Larry Hama was in the same graduating class as Frank Brunner and Ralph Reese.
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Larry 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.
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High-school classmate Ralph Reese, who had become an assistant to famed EC and Marvel artist Wally Wood, helped Larry Hama get a similar job at Wood's Manhattan studio.
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Larry 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.
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At DC, Larry Hama became an editor of the titles Wonder Woman, Mister Miracle, Super Friends, and The Warlord, and the TV-series licensed property Welcome Back, Kotter from 1977 to 1978.
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Larry Hama then joined Marvel as an editor in 1980.
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Larry Hama had a brief acting career in the mid-1970s, despite never having pursued the field.
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Larry Hama told her that he had never acted before and could neither sing nor dance, but Merlin was persistent, and when informed that casting was less than a minute away from his workplace at Continuity Comics, he agreed to audition and was ultimately cast in three roles.
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Larry Hama said in a 2006 interview that he was given the job by then editor-in-chief Jim Shooter after every other writer at Marvel had turned it down.
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Larry Hama included military terms and strategies, Eastern philosophy, martial arts and historical references from his own background.
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In 2007, the company added the spin-off series Storm Shadow, written by Hama and penciled by Mark A Robinson, which ceased publication with issue 7.
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Larry Hama wrote the first five issues, as the series was originally intended to be a miniseries, and returned to write four more issues over the course of the book's 23-issue run.
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At Marvel in the early 1980s, Larry Hama edited the humor magazine Crazy and the Conan titles, and from 1986 to 1993, he edited the acclaimed comic book The 'Nam, a gritty Marvel series about the Vietnam War.
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Larry Hama was an editor on Peter Porker the spectacular Spider Ham from 1983 - 1987.
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Larry Hama wrote the 16-issue Marvel series Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, concerning the adventures of John Doe, an American ninja and Special Forces commando in an alternate reality in which World War III is sparked after the world's nuclear weapons stockpiles are all destroyed.
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Larry Hama edited a relaunch of Marvel's black-and-white comics magazine Savage Tales, overseeing its change from sword-and-sorcery to men's adventure.
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Larry Hama was the writer of DDP's Barack the Barbarian series, a Conan the Barbarian parody starring US President Barack Obama.
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On September 19,2012, Larry Hama released his three-part vampire novel entitled The Stranger.
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On December 17,2012, Larry Hama portrayed himself in a Christmas-themed episode of the Adult Swim series Robot Chicken.
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In 2014, Larry Hama began working with award-winning filmmaker Mark Cheng on an original film project, called Ghost Source Zero.