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| - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Ben Oda File:Ben Oda.jpg Gallery Real Name Ben Oda Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Category: Staff]] , [[|]][[Cate
- Ben Oda was born December 21, 1915 to a Japanese-American family. During World War II, he served as a paratrooper in the American military. After the war he entered into the field of comics. The timing was perfect. By the late 1940s, many comic studios and companies had opted not to letter their publications in-house and turned instead to hiring freelance letterers. Ben Oda helped to fill the void and quickly became one of the most notable names in lettering during the era, beside the likes of Gaspar Saladino and Sam Rosen.
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| - Ben Oda was born December 21, 1915 to a Japanese-American family. During World War II, he served as a paratrooper in the American military. After the war he entered into the field of comics. The timing was perfect. By the late 1940s, many comic studios and companies had opted not to letter their publications in-house and turned instead to hiring freelance letterers. Ben Oda helped to fill the void and quickly became one of the most notable names in lettering during the era, beside the likes of Gaspar Saladino and Sam Rosen. His career was prolific, lettering thousands of comics and comic strips over the course of his career. Some of the more famous comic strips he lettered included Apartment 3-G, Big Ben Bolt, Dondi, The Dropouts, Flash Gordon, Little Orphan Annie, Mary Perkins, On Stage, Rip Kirby and The Spirit. He was also letterer for the Chicago Tribune and King Features Syndicate, on series such as Prince Valiant, Little Orphan Annie, The Phantom and many others. In the 1970s and 1980s, Oda became a noted part of DC Comics, working on stories with characters such as Superman, Legion of Super-heroes, and Bat-man, titles such as Action Comics, Adventure Comics, The Brave and the Bold and many other anthology titles. He provided letters for some of the great artists of the period, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, and Jim Aparo, as well as working for former The Twilight Zone comic alum and then-DC-editor, Joe Orlando.
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