Larry Hama
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Larry Hama (born June 7, 1949) is an American comic book writer, best known for his decade-long run on Marvel Comics's monthly G.I. Joe comic.
Given the job by Jim Shooter after it was turned down by everybody else, Hama combined a story treatment he had produced for a Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff with his military and martial arts knowledge (and seeming love affair with ninjas) to produce the comic series, writing with only a few exceptions almost the entire 155 issue run. Also serving much the same role Bob Budiansky did with shaping the early Transformer mythos, as well as the writing the comic Hama produced the background file cards for the majority of 3 3/4" action figures for Hasbro. Much like Simon Furman with Transformers, Larry still writes G.I. Joe comics to this day.
While he didn't write the Marvel G.I. Joe and the Transformers limited series, in 1993 as the G.I. Joe comic was coming to a close, Hama wrote a five-issue storyline that served to set up the subsequent Generation 2 comic, and depicted Cobra rebuilding Megatron with a tank for his new alt mode.
He's also written a pretty lengthy chunk of Wolverine's ongoing series during the 80s and 90s.
Issues (writer)
[edit]Notes
[edit]- In addition to his long career as a writer and artist, Larry had a very brief acting career, and made a minor appearance (alongside [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Robert Ito|{{#if:||Robert Ito}}]]) as a North Korean soldier in an episode of the seminal comedic war drama [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}M*A*S*H (TV series)|{{#if:M*A*S*H|M*A*S*H|M*A*S*H (TV series)}}]].<ref>Screencap of Hama and Ito in a M*A*S*H episode on IMDb.com</ref>
- Dreamwave's first Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover featured a ship called the USS Hama, as a tribute to the writer.
- Larry's mug was immortalized in the G.I. Joe character Tunnel Rat's head sculpt.
- He is awesome.
External links
[edit]- [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Larry Hama|{{#if:||Larry Hama}}]] at Wikipedia.
Interviews
[edit]- July 2010—San Diego Comic-Con (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) (with Andy Schmidt, Robert Atkins, Mike Costa, Denton J. Tipton, Michael Kelly, and Alex Irvine)