More work for small publishers followed, including in Cartoon Art's Marsman Comics (1948) and Super-Duper (1949) and Martin & Reid's The Rancher and Jolly Western (both 1949) before starting his long association with DC Thomson in 1949, drawing an adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady in the Lake in the People's Journal, and "Sir Solomon Snoozer" in  The Dandy.
This led to additional assignments for small publishers, including Cartoon Art's Marsman Comics (1948) and Super-Duper (1949), as well as Martin & Reid's The Rancher and Jolly Western (both 1949), before he began his long-term partnership with DC Thomson in 1949, which included adapting Sir Walter Scott's The Lady in the Lake for the People's Journal and creating "Sir Solomon Snoozer" in The Dandy.