One of his first responsibilities was to produce a daily novelette for the Chicago Herald. Lait returned to journalism and to the Hearst organization in 1915. The same can be said for the rest of his fiction, which included numerous novels, plays, and motion-picture stories. In 1914, Oliver Morosco produced Lait's first play, Help Wanted, which was a success at the time but made no permanent impact. In the following years he worked for a time in the Chicago office of the theatrical agent William Morris and wrote sketches for vaudeville performers.

' In this same period Lait is said to have appeared on the rostrum in the Illinois state senate and demanded a poll of the senators on a voting-machine bill before he was hustled out. Lait's editor, Moses Koenigsberg, wrote later that Lait, at twenty years of age, had 'proved a courage and resourcefulness matched by few veterans.

His boldness soon won him a place on the paid staff, and he gained almost instant fame by exposing vote frauds in the city's eighteenth ward, thereby sending the ward leader, John J. 'I seemed to behave, ' Lait recalled, 'as if I were born for that calling. On March 6, 1903, he entered the newspaper business as a volunteer reporter for the Chicago American, a daily founded three years before by William Randolph Hearst. (15701).For a brief time Lait supported himself as a professional baseball catcher, probably in the minor leagues, and bicycle rider. Uncommon in superior condition, especially in the jacket. A fine copy in the rarely seen pictorial dust jacket, with short tears and creasing along the bottom edge, but intact with some loss, but only to spine ends. Though the book itself is not rare, the wraparound dustwrapper containing all the Hearts/King Features characters is scarce. This duo created what was in essence a marketing book about the stable of comic characters at King Features. To write the book, King Features brought in erstwhile Hollywood scriptwriter, playwright and newspaper columnist Jack Lait, who would later co-author 'New York Confidential', 'Chicago Confidential' and 'Washington Confidential'. This allowed Biederman to develop the skill of being able to copy any of the cartoonists at King features and it was he who was assigned the artwork in this book. Louis Biederman worked as a staff assistant at King Features at this time, filling in when cartoonists went on vacation, inking different cartoonists work and pitching in on the lettering. Segar, Chester Gould, all shown interacting - at a banquet, the races (a match between Spark Plug and Maud), and at a wedding - in color drawings (some double page) by Louis Biedermann. A story by Jack Lait featuring 1920's comic characters created by George McManus, George Herriman, Frederick Burr Opper, Reuben L. 10-112, color illustrations by Louis Biedermann, original green cloth, spine panel lettered in gold, color pictorial onlay affixed to front panel, pictorial endpapers.

All the Funny Folks by Jack Lait