His first Valiant work appeared in "Magnus, Robot Fighter" #1 (May 1991), in which he inked Art Nichols' artwork from Jim Shooter's script. He would continue with "Magnus" for five issues and produce covers to issue #9, while inking the inaugural issues of "Solar, Man of the Atom", which he edited. In February 1992, he co-created with Shooter and Steve Englehart and penciled the first issue of "X-O Manowar", after which he handed over the core art duties to Sal Velluto, but provided inks for #2. The following month he drew the cover to David Michelinie's "Rai"