 Amendola's advice that McFarlane's submissions needed to focus page-to-page stories rather than pinups led McFarlane to create a five-page "Coyote" sample that he initially sent to "Uncanny X-Men" editor Ann Nocenti at Marvel Comics, who passed it along to Archie Goodwin and Jo Duffy, the editors of the Marvel imprint Epic Comics, which published "Coyote".They in turn passed it onto "Coyote" creator Steve Englehart, who called McFarlane to offer McFarlane his first comic job, a 1984 backup story in "Coyote".McFarlane soon began drawing for both DC and Marvel, with his first major body of work being a two-year run (1985–1987) on DC's "Infinity, Inc." In 1987, McFarlane illustrated the last three issues of "Detective Comics"' four-issue "" storyline.