{"id":3088,"date":"2011-06-11T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2011-06-11T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:14:00","slug":"rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-6-creepy-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/11\/rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-6-creepy-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection slips of dead magazines #6: Creepy (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 20, 1974 (four months before I started on staff at Marvel Comics), I sent a script for an eight-page comic book story to <em>Creepy<\/em>, one of the magazines put out  by Warren Publishing. The script, titled &#8220;When the Old Gods Die,&#8221; thankfully no longer exists, so it won&#8217;t be necessary for you to suffer through it.<\/p>\n<p>The form rejection slip I received in return, however, <em>has<\/em> survived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RejectWarren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RejectWarren-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RejectWarren\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RejectWarren-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RejectWarren-813x1024.jpg 813w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RejectWarren.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 20, 1974 (four months before I started on staff at Marvel Comics), I sent a script for an eight-page comic book story to Creepy, one of the magazines put out by Warren Publishing. The script, titled &#8220;When the Old Gods Die,&#8221; thankfully no longer exists, so it won&#8217;t be necessary for you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,87],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-rejection-slips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}