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Ben Oda

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Ben Oda was a Japanese-American letterer for comic books and comic strips.

Ben Oda

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Justice League of America
81
DC Comics
Justice League of America
1960 - 1987
Action Comics
75
DC Comics
Action Comics
1938 - 2011
Superman
71
DC Comics
Superman
1939 - 2011
Detective Comics
60
DC Comics
Detective Comics
1937 - 2011

More on Ben Oda

He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute and began his career as an apprentice at Walt Disney Studios. During World War II, Oda was a paratrooper.

Oda lettered for two major comic strip syndicates: the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and King Features Syndicate. Comic strips lettered by Oda include Apartment 3-G, Big Ben Bolt, Dondi, The Dropouts, Flash Gordon, Johnny Hazard, Little Orphan Annie, Miss Peach, On Stage, The Phantom, Prince Valiant, Rip Kirby, The Spirit and Steve Canyon.
He entered the comics industry after World War II; some of his earliest lettering was for Hillman Periodicals' Airboy and Real Clue Crime Stories, which connected him with the Simon & Kirby team. In the 1950s, his lettering appeared in the EC Comics edited by Harvey Kurtzman.
He was a prolific letterer at DC Comics for many years, until his death, working on such books as Action Comics, Aquaman, Justice League of America, Wonder Woman, Young Romance, Teen Titans, New Teen Titans and a plethora of others.

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