 That same year he started writing for comics, making his first sales to "Savage Tales" and "Savage Sword of Conan" for Marvel Comics, and becoming a regular contributor to the humor magazine "Cracked".Arcudi worked on a number of comic books based on films, including "RoboCop", "Terminator", "Predator", "Alien", and "The Thing".Two of these graphic works were subsequently adapted as full-length novels published by Bantam Books.