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.
Larry Hama was born June 7, 1949. As a child, Hama studied Kodokan Judo and later studied Kyd and Iaido . Planning to become a painter, Hama attended Manhattans High School of Art and Design, where one instructor was former EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein. He was in the same graduating class as Frank Brunner and Ralph Reese.
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