More importantly, Hama’s initial Fury Force sketches and concepts show just how crucial he was to the development of the G.I. Joe comics, it’s not hard to see how Snake Eyes, Scarlett and the rest of the Joes fighting the forces of Cobra could be swapped out for Nick Fury’s son and his elite team of S.H.I.E.L.D. “ He thought, and I agreed, that much of what he’d already cooked up for Nick Fury could be adapted to the project.” Hama would not only go on to write the eventual comic book, but also the all-important file cards for most of the toy line, fleshing out the characters and their backstories. ' I went straight to Larry’s office,” Shooter recalls in a 2011 blog post, feeling that his military background made Hama the perfect choice for G.I. Joe line to Marvel, Shooter knew exactly who to call. Before any more work could commence, then-Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter met with Hasbro to discuss potential ideas. Director Nick Fury’s son, Nick Fury, Jr., leading his own elite team of specialized commandos. Joe relaunch, Larry Hama has been working on his own pitch at Marvel entitled Fury Force, which would have followed the adventures of S.H.I.E.L.D. At the same time that Hasbro prepared its G.I. That Marvel staffer was Larry Hama, a Vietnam War vet who had already built up an established career in comics as an artist, writer and editor.

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If they had offered me Barbie, I would have taken Barbie and given it my best shot because I wanted to work. 'I wanted to do funny animals from the get-go, but nobody was buying funny animals, so I had to do superheroes. 'It was an opportunity to tell certain types of stories, but it has never been my intention to do military comics,' Hama revealed. Army veteran who served during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1971, he wasn't looking to tell stories about the military. 'It was company policy that if you were an editor, you couldn't write for another company, but I had special dispensation from the editor-in-chief to write for Warren Comics because I was able to go to him and prove to him that I had gone to every editor at Marvel, and nobody would give me any writing work.' No editor at Marvel would give me writing work,' Hama told Looper.

I'd been trying for 10 years to get writing work. 'It was my foot in the door to get writing work.

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