6/29/2023 0 Comments G.I. JOE by Larry Hama![]() ![]() Upon his discharge, Hama became active in the Asian community in New York City. After high school, Hama took a job drawing shoes for catalogs, and then served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1969 to 1971, during the Vietnam War, an experience that would aid in his editing of the 1986-1993 Marvel Comics series The 'Nam. Hama sold his first comics work to the fantasy film magazine Castle of Frankenstein when he was 16 years old. 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. He "played Kodokan Judo as a kid" and later studied Kyūdō (Japanese archery) and Iaido (Japanese swordsmanship). Larry Hama is a third-generation American, born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, and raised in Queens. ![]()
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