By the time he was 15 years old, Beatty had made his first "professional sell," as Camelot Publishing hired him to do cartoons for computer instruction manuals.

Beatty and his long-time friend Craig Zablo (creator of Stallonezone, a Sylvester Stallone fansite), would go to OrlandoCon and make a weekend of it.

Beatty took some art samples to show professional attendees, comics artists such as Pat Broderick and Bob McLeod (who were living on the west coast of Florida in Tampa).

[citation needed] This was also the con where Beatty met AC Comics publisher and artist Bill Black.

[citation needed] Beatty spent twenty years inking titles such as Captain America, The Punisher, Secret Wars, The Nam, The Adventures of Superman, Batman, JLA, and many more.