Storm was on the staff of the San Francisco Daily News in 1922. and three years later he began his first newspaper strip, Phil Hardy, scripted by Jay Jerome Williams under the pseudonym Edwin Alger, Jr. When Phil Hardy came to an end after 11 months. Storm drew Ben Webster's Career (Bell Syndicate, 1925-26) and then launched Bobby Thatcher March 24, 1927 for the McClure Syndicate.