"[1] That same year he attended the Art Students League of New York in order to study figure drawing with George Bridgman; future fellow cartoonists in the same class were Bob Lubbers and Stan Drake.

His earliest known credit there is as penciler and inker of the six-page feature "Boxie Weaver" in Holyoke Publications' Blue Beetle #28-30 (Dec. 1943 - Feb. 1944) and Sparkling Stars #9 (Feb. 1945), the last of which he signed with the pseudonym Ink Higgins.

While in the army in 1944 and 1945, Weiss was the staff artist for the camp newspaper at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Virginia, where he wrote and drew the comic panel M.P.

About this time Weiss was contacted separately by both Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the creators of Superman, each of whom were interested in collaborating with him on a comic strip.

[3] At various times Weiss turned down opportunities to continue strips such as Terry and the Pirates and Nancy after the departure of their creators.

[11] With his artist wife, Blanche, whom he met in George Bridgman's class at the Art Students League of New York and married in 1944 [11] Weiss founded the Miami Society for Autistic Children.