Artists' representative Renaldo Epworth helped Wood land his early comic-book assignments, making it unclear if that connection led to Wood's lettering or to his comics-art debut, the ten-page story "The Tip Off Woman" in the Fox Comics Western "Women Outlaws" No. 4 (cover-dated January 1949, on sale late 1948). Wood's next known comic-book art did not appear until Fox's "My Confession" No. 7 (August 1949), at which time he began working almost continuously on the company's similar "My Experience", "My Secret Life", "My Love Story" and "My True Love: Thrilling Confession Stories". His first signed work is believed to be in "My Confession" #8 (October 1949), with the name "Woody" half-hidden on a theater marquee. He penciled and inked two stories in that issue: "I Was Unwanted" (nine pages) and "My Tarnished Reputation" (ten pages).