Irv Novick for the Johnstone and Cushing advertising agency in the 1960s, but was unhappy in advertising and was lured back to DC by Kanigher with a freelance contract, a guarantee of steady work and certain perks which was at the time unprecedented. After editorial and management changes in 1968, Novick began drawing superhero titles such as "Batman", "Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane", and "The Flash". Novick and writer Frank Robbins crafted the story which revealed the last name of Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth in "Batman" #216 (Nov. 1969). The Robbins and Novick team was instrumental in returning Batman to the character's
Jim Piddock butler, Alfred Pennyworth, and also voiced Chic for the animated science fiction film "", based on the video game "Dead Space". Piddock appeared in 2012's "The Five-Year Engagement", which starred Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, playing Blunt's father, "The Cold Light of Day" starring Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, and "The Dictator" with Sacha Baron Cohen. In August, 2012 it was announced that Piddock would be co-writing, acting, and producing a new TV comedy series with Christopher Guest for HBO and the BBC titled "Family Tree". On 13 October 2016, "Mascots", which he co-wrote with Guest, stars in,