Thursday, April 8, 2010

Frazetta Candy: The Original GHOST RIDER



Like some of you fellers, I grew up reading ye ol' flaming skull on the motorcycle Ghost Rider, but before that incarnation, there was the original, lovingly rendered by the great Frank Frazetta, who did a few of the Western GR's covers back in the day.

Well, pard'ners, TwoMorrows just announced BACK ISSUE magazine's "Wild West" issue, # 42, which will come out in three months, and the article I'll be contributing to that issue will be about the original Ghost Rider, which was re-named Night Rider by Marvel when the character was revived in the 1970s (so as not to compete with the motorcycle demon GR...convoluted, huh?)

http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=900&zenid=hp2qe7231sk9ucdhka7ie16b50

The Jonah Hex cover on BACK ISSUE #42 is by my buddy TONY DeZUNIGA (Jonah Hex's original artist/co-creator), who is featured in the issue. Yippy-yo!

2 comments:

Javier Hernandez said...

Mikey, I saw a link this morning on THE COMICS REPORTER to some of these Frazetta GR covers. Geez are they stunningly beautiful!! Such a great character. Looking forward to your article. I have the 70s reprints of Marvel's 1960s Ghost Rider comics. A timeless hero, that spectral horseman!

Greenblatt the Great! said...

"That spectral horseman..." I like it!

Poetically put, Pilgrim!