After the war he spent three years studying under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme, completing his arts course at East Sydney Technical College, during which time he produced his first comic strip, Sword and Sabre, a story about the French Foreign Legion.
[1] In December 1950 New Century Press contracted Wedd to produce twenty three Captain Justice stories,[1] with the hero now located in the American Wild West, for £102 per issue.
Still, once they banned him in one state the distributor was no longer keen to handle the title at all, so that was the end of The Scorpion.He then produced a series of Captain Justice stories for Calvert Publications, but they had to be largely re-drawn to satisfy 1950s censorship rules and regulations, e.g. the hero's face could not be entirely hidden, no flashes could issue from guns, no character could carry an offensive weapon in the hand, and no-one was allowed to be killed.
Hepworth's Australian Children's Newspaper, drawing many full page adventure comics, an association which lasted for sixteen years.
After producing another five Captain Justice stories for Horwitz Publications in 1963,[1] Wedd turned to animation, working for Artransa and Eric Porter on series such as Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon, Charlie Chan, The Lone Ranger, Rocket Robin Hood and Super Friends.
On leaving the animation field Wedd concentrated on freelance work and production of a new comic strip based on the life of Ned Kelly.
Wedd was in great demand during Captain Cook's Bicentenary celebrations, creating historic strips, illustrations and cards for everything from TV series to Minties and washing powder between 1969 and 1970.
Replacing Ned Kelly was another Wedd strip about bushrangers, Bold Ben Hall, which followed the same approach and format, running for 400 episodes.
Wedd was a long time member and former vice-president of the Black and White Artists' Club, and lived at Williamtown, New South Wales.