Oksner drew a few Justice Society of America stories in All Star Comics during his early years at DC.

Bilko; Pat Boone; and Welcome Back, Kotter; and, for the King Features syndicate, the newspaper comic-strip spin-off of the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy.

[5] Other work includes drawing the original humor comics Angel and the Ape[6][7] and Stanley and His Monster.

Oksner's other work in comic strips included succeeding Gus Edson as writer of artist-creator Irwin Hasen's Dondi for a time beginning in 1965;[9] and drawing and co-creating Soozi (1967),[10] with Don Weldon.

[11] Oksner won the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Comic Books in 1960 and 1961,[12] and in 1970 the Shazam Award for Best Pencil Artist (Humor Division) for his work on Adventure Comics and other DC titles.