 The final chapter appeared in time for the 1972 WSFC that saw WSFA win the vote.He rated the early part of the work as "pretty good fan art" which, by the end, had become "marginally professional", so bound the second half of the story into one volume and used it as his portfolio.Carmine Infantino, who was the editor-in-chief as DC Comics saw this portfolio and got him bits of work at DC, six months later editor Archie Goodwin gave him his breakthrough—drawing "Manhunter", a backup feature in DC's "Detective Comics" written by Goodwin.