Larry Hama: The Early Years Shoot Interview by Alex Grand

My book, Understanding Superhero Comic Books available at https://a.co/d/8ZSTMh8 & https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/un.... CBH's Alex Grand interviews comic book writer, penciler and entertainment property creator, Larry Hama discussing his early years including his childhood comics, his time at Manhattan's High School of Art and Design, learning how to draw from Bernard Krigstein, working with Larry Ivie and Bhob Stewart on Castle of Frankenstein, working with Ralph Reese as Wally Wood's assistant for the Overseas Weekly, illustrating for Esquire and Rolling Stone, underground comics like Drool #1 and Gothic Blimp works, training under Neal Adams at Continuity Associates, penciling Iron First, working at Atlas/Seaboard, Big Apple Comix with Flo Steinberg, getting hired by Jenette Kahn at DC Comics, joining Marvel in 1978, creating Bucky O'Hare with Michael Golden, bringing Underground cartoonists into Marvel's Crazy magazine, creating the characters for GI Joe: A Real American Hero, creating Spider-Ham, editing Savage Tales, Reading Kurtzman's Two-Fisted Tales and editing The 'NAM, overseeing antiheroes like Nth Man and Wolverine, and his advice on creating properties for the entertainment industry. ©2022 Comic Book Historians, LLC #GIJOE #LarryHama #Marvel #MarvelComics #DCComics #UnderGround #Chaykin #Atlas #NealAdams #MichaelGolden #Baroness #StanLee #TomDeFalco 📜 Video Chapters 00:00 Welcoming Larry Hama 00:21 Childhood comics 01:19 Did you read any Marvel, DC, or EC Comics? 02:24 Getting into High School of Art and Design, Manhattan 04:10 Bernard Krigstein was a great teacher 05:56 Neal Adams 08:09 Castle of Frankenstein, 1966 | Larry Ivie, Calvin Thomas Beck 11:23 Bhob Stewart, Trina Robbins | Gothic Blimp Works 13:05 Wally Wood and Ralph Reese 14:26 How was working with Wally Wood? | Overseas Weekly, Cannon 16:55 Getting into Continuity, Working with Neal Adams 17:58 What do you feel is a legacy of Neal Adams? 19:49 How was the environment in DC in the early '70s? 20:30 Working at Marvel | Howard Chaykin 22:02 Wulf the Barbarian | Atlas Comics 22:39 Acting career | Moby Dick, Kung Fu movies 25:13 Big Apple Comix 1975 | Flo Steinberg 26:01 As editor at DC | Jenette Kahn 26:46 Difference between DC and Marvel 30:22 Bucky O'Hare | Michael Golden, Neal Adams 32:40 Editing Crazy magazine, 1980 33:26 G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero! 35:17 G.I. Joe vs Cobra 36:56 Is there a Cobra analog to Baron Von Strucker, Cobra Commander 37:52 Creating female characters - Baroness 39:01 Stan Lee 40:52 Tunnel Rat character, 1987..modeled after you? 41:21 Co-creating Peter Porker | Tom DeFalco 42:42 Editing Savage Tales magazine 43:32 Editing The NAM comic series, 1986 45:40 Have you read any of the Harvey Kurtzman War comics before this point? 47:01 There's a little bit of anti-hero flavor to the characters you've written | Captain America 48:11 Were there any limits in writing Wolverine? | X-Men retreats 49:33 Did you like the movies? - Hugh Jackman 50:10 21st Century: Would you have done anything differently? 50:36 What advice you would give to newbies in the entertainment industry? 54:28 Wrapping Up 🤔 Hope you enjoyed this video! 👍 If you enjoy this video, please like and share it. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more updates. 🚫 Subscribe by clicking this link 🔗 https://bit.ly/3iRIaxx ⚡️ Swim into our playlists ⚡️ 🎶 CBH Docuseries by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Docuseries 🎶 CBH Interview Series 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-InterviewSeries 🎶 History of DC Comics Video Series by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/3CrGqnV 🎶 Origin of Marvel Comics Video Series by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/3yx4gvV 🎶 CBH Videos in Order of Episode Number 🔗 https://bit.ly/3lBl29H 🎶 Comic Book Flip Thru 🔗 https://bit.ly/3xz8QIO 🎶 Historic Footage 🔗 https://bit.ly/3AiukLR 🎶 CBH Motion Comics 🔗 https://bit.ly/3yvHMLX 🎶 CBH Panel Series 🔗 https://bit.ly/3s36voy 🎶 Comic Book Historians Playlists 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Playlists ⚡️ Our Socials ⚡️ ✅ Facebook:   / comicbookhistorians   ✅ Instagram:   / comicbookhistorians   ✅ Twitter:   / comichistorians   🎙 Audio Podcasts 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.buzzsprou... 🌐 Website 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.com/ ✊ You want to support our project? We'd be happy for your support on Patreon. ⚡️ Check us out on Patreon 🔗   / comicbookhistorians   󰛝 An extra special thank-you to all my kind Patreon supporters. 🙏 Thank you for watching