My *lost* 1968 submission to Warren's CREEPY magazine

Yikes.  What a sad story.
 

Obviously can't see any detail, but looks like you really went to town on the art.  At the very least, you'd think they would send a card encouraging you to keep practising.  Can't imagine much unsolicited art was near this standard.
 

At the time I think I had the idea that because CREEPY printed one of my drawings on their Fan Club Page in issue #12 in 1966 (two years earlier), I thought it might be a "sure thing" they'd accept the story -- but I was just a 17-yr old idiot!  And I paid the price.... yeah, I wish I had some better images of that story.... oh well.... it's long gone....

Well, a TALENTED "17-year-old idiot" from what I can make out.  If it's not too personal, did you pursue a creative career?  

By the way, I was born on December of '67, so a matter of months before this photo was taken.  

I've partially told my story in the posts I've done in my CAF Galleries -- I'm currently 72, and started collecting comics and began drawing/copying my favorite artists when I was 13-15 -- after doing lots of art for the early fanzines and working in Bud Plant's comic shops, in 1976 I tried to get into the comics field professionally by going to New York and working for one month in Neal Adams studio... but it didn't work out, I returned to California and spent then-on freelancing various comic art jobs over the decades!  Some were extremely interesting, like doing cartoons for Carl Sagan's newsletter, and years of work for various religious publications. 

God, thats a horrible story.  I wonder if it still exists?

As a 17 year old but a writer I sold a story to Creepy in 1968 (yes they were prett yahrd up back then)  I got it back i na trade deal in 1985 when Warren sold off a lot of the art he had to make some needed cash - I got it for 4 men's adventure mags to give yo ua sense of it s value at that time - the artist was Tony Tallarico- so your art may still exist somewhere! It's fun seeing your earl ywork as I rememebr yo ufro mthe fanzines and the underground