Between 1957 and 1967, Wood produced both covers and interiors for more than 60 issues of the science-fiction digest "Galaxy Science Fiction", illustrating such authors as Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Jack Finney, C.M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Robert Sheckley, Clifford D. Simak and Jack Vance. He painted six covers for "Galaxy Science Fiction Novels" between 1952 and 1958. His gag cartoons appeared in the men's magazines "Dude", "Gent" and "Nugget". He inked the first eight months of the 1958–1961 syndicated comic strip "Sky Masters of the Space Force", penciled by Jack Kirby.