GHOST RIDER Volume 3 Hardcover

Collects Ghost Rider #6-14, 1953-54; and Calico Kid stories from Tim Holt #5-9, 1949.

The original pre-code Ghost Rider, with great western stories tinged with horror elements. Issue #6 has a loco weed story; #8 a drug use story; in #10 he fights a pseudo-Frankenstein character; #12 has a bondage and one-eyed devil cover; #14 is the last issue in the series, although Ghost Rider also appeared in several other ME titles, like Tim Holt. Created by Dick Ayers and Ray Krank, Rex Fury was originally known as the Calico Kid, who together with his white horse Spectre became the Ghost Rider. Wearing a white outfit covered with phosphorus and using a phosphorescent cape, he could cover parts of his body to create a  floating head or pair of hands. He wielded a black lariat and bullwhip -- even his horse  glowed in the dark! The Ghost Rider battled many foes who, like him, were not truly supernatural at all, such as an imposter of Frankenstein's Monster and the Harpy, werewolves and vampires. The character was the inspiration for Marvel's Phantom Rider, also co-created by Dick Ayers.