 Unlike most children's magazines, "Kids" paid its contributors — $5 or $6 plus three free copies of the issue in which their work appeared — and returned rejected contributions if a self-addressed, stamped envelope was provided.The magazine's illustrators included twelve-year-old Ray Billingsley, who went on to create the syndicated newspaper comic "Curtis", Jim Salicrup who was editor for Marvel Comics in the 80's, and fourteen-year-old Tom Gammill, who later wrote for "Saturday Night Live", "Seinfeld", "The Critic", "The Wonder Years", and "It's Garry Shandling's Show" with Max Pross.Kahn was later involved in Scholastic Press's "Dynamite!"