[5] Lyle worked on the first solo Robin limited series with writer Chuck Dixon.

[8] Meanwhile, in 1991 he worked on The Comet for DC's Impact Comics imprint, which he pencilled and plotted, with writer Mark Waid contributing the scripts.

He was one of the artists on the "Maximum Carnage"[9] and "Clone Saga"[10] storylines which ran through the Spider-Man titles, during which time he designed the original blue hoodie-and-red spandex costume worn by the Scarlet Spider, a clone of Spider-Man.

[11] He also co-created the character Annex in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #27 with writer Jack C.

3 with writer John Ostrander from 1995 to 1997, a Warlock mini-series which he wrote himself in 1998,[3] and issues of Mutant X in 2000 and 2001.