[2][4][5][6] Pitt was heavily influenced by the classic style of Alex Raymond's artwork the creator of Flash Gordon,[3][7] particularly his method of switching from a pen to a brush.
Pitt had no art training and no opportunity to associate with other Johnson artists, like Unk White, Carl Lyon and Jim Russell.
[5]Under Pitt's deft handling, the scenes of rock formations and underground caverns came to life; as did the seas of molten lava and the ship winding its way through rock and water.In 1948, Pitt produced Jim Atlas and Dr Peril of Igogo as back-up stories for the early issues of Captain Atom, a superhero comic by Arthur Mather published by Atlas Publications.
[5][9][10] Pitt was then employed by John Fairfax and Sons for their new paper, The Sun-Herald, where he produced a new science fiction comic strip, Captain Power, with the storyline provided by journalist Gerry Brown,[4] the first issue appearing on 6 March 1949.
Together with his brother, Reginald, he attempted to get two strips, Lemmy Caution and Mr Midnight, syndicated in the United States,[5] when this failed he joined Cleveland Press in 1956, where he created a new series of Silver Starr.
[14] According to Patrick, the brothers completed several months of the comic strip for potential syndication but then faced a legal objection from the producers of a proposed film version of The Stars My Destination, who held exclusive adaptation rights to the book.
[14] Unable to sell the strip, the brothers stopped work on the project, with only a few pieces of their artwork eventually making it into the public domain, through a number of fanzines.
[5] In 1969, the US cartoonist, Al Williamson, arranged for Pitt to ghost an eleven-week sequence of his daily strip, Secret Agent Corrigan,[4][18] which was followed by a further four weeks in 1972.