[citation needed] During World War II, Hine wrote for Yank, the Army Weekly magazine as a staff correspondent from July 1943 to December 1945.
He developed a wry, smooth writing style filled with sexual innuendo that later served him well in crafting popular novels.
Hine's novel Lord Love a Duck (Atheneum: 1961) told the story of Alan Musgrave, a confident high school student skilled at karate and hypnosis who calls himself 'Mollymauk' after a rare bird.
Hine wrote an original novel based on I Dream of Jeannie (1966: Pocket Books) under the pseudonym "Dennis Brewster".
According to the back cover's blurb, "Viewers who have roared at the astronautical antics of Captain Nelson and his sprightly imp, Jeannie, can now read this madcap, laugh-filled adventure of that wacky twosome from blast-off to landing."