Adams offered him a position at his ad agency Continuity Graphics and Simonson called his editor, Ralph Macchio, at Marvel Comics.

Upon entering the Marvel offices for the first time, he was greeted by Kaminski, who had remembered corresponding with Panosian seven years earlier.

Panosian also branched out into book and magazine illustration, apparel lines, and toy design work.

Shortly after, Dan was doing the lead design work for the video game series Duke Nukem.

[10] Panosian received an Best-of-Show Addy Award for his work on the DSL ad campaign: Jack Flash.