 He was hired by Marvel Comics as a writer and artist on "Crazy Magazine", the company's black-and-white humor title at the end of 1980.His first work appeared in print in 1981.He later became an assistant editor under Mark Gruenwald in 1982 and wrote a short run of stories in "Captain America" and Ka-Zar (comics) as well as the Assistant Editors' Month issue of "Marvel Team-Up" (Aunt May and Franklin Richards vs. Galactus).