It was his cousin, Modesty Blaise-creator Peter O'Donnell, who suggested that Norman could become a comic book writer.
This led to Norman writing stories featuring The Saint and Buffalo Bill for Semic, a Swedish comic book company.
Norman was arguably the most popular writer of the Scandinavian Phantom production; who ended up writing 127 stories before he retired in 2004.
Norman is credited for being responsible for providing backstories to many of the previous Phantoms of other centuries, which was a result of his love for history.
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