Starting as an inker and background artist in 1941, Kida moved on to a staff position at Iger client Quality Comics.

[citation needed] There he both penciled and inked his first known credited work, the feature "Phantom Clipper" in Military Comics #9 (April 1942).

[5] In 1942, he joined Hillman Periodicals, where he drew such features as "Iron Ace" (from its premiere in Air Fighters Comics #2, Nov. 1942),[6] "Boy King" and "Gunmaster", and the following year began work on his most prominent Golden Age character, Airboy.

[5] Aside from Airboy himself, the feature was known for the sexy antagonist Valkyrie, a cleavage-baring Axis aviatrix who soon defected and became his ally.

His final known full comic-book credit is the superhero-team title The Defenders #72 (June 1979) — featuring Marvel's unrelated character Valkyrie.