His job was to copy the comics his boss brought back from Japan or to draw comics with absurd plots that combined elements of popular martial arts novels with the stuff of his own imagination.
來到台北的漫畫出版社，蔡志忠和幾位才退伍的年輕人一起工作、生活，他的工作是照著老闆從日本買回來的漫畫原稿描圖，或者參考當時流行的武俠小說，自己想像變化，畫出一本本情節有些荒誕不羈的漫畫。