Featuring: Ghost Rider
Release: October 14, 1949
10 cents
Dick Ayers
6 pages
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When the Calico Kid went to his doom in the swirling, surging waters of the Devil’s Sink, Badman Bart Lasher laughed an evil laugh… then out of the realm of death came– the Ghost Rider!
Last week I thought it would be a funny April Fool’s joke to read a Marvel comic from 1975 at random when we are still in 1967. Now I think we should read a non-Marvel comic from 1949 and call it part of our Marvel reading. But this time I’m serious.
Magazine Enterprises was a comic publisher from the 1940s and ’50s. This series features Tim Holt, “Cowboy star of the movies”. Tim Holt was a popular actor of the era, who starred in a number of cowboy films: Robbers of the Range, The Bandit Trail, Riding the Wind, etc. And had some roles in acclaimed films like Treasure of the Sierra Madre or My Darling Clementine.
Several movies costarred Richard Martin as Chito Rafferty, in the role of the sidekick to Holt’s character.
The comic features Tim Holt as himself, but not as himself the 1940s actor, but as Tim Holt the 19th century western hero. Chito is his sidekick.
As noted above, this comic was not published by Marvel and Tim Holt has nothing to do with Marvel. Yet here it is in our Marvel reading.
The second story in this particular issue will have some connection to Marvel. The artist is Dick Ayers, who has been drawing Sgt. Fury as well as several of Marvel’s western comics, so there’s already a connection.
And some readers may recognise the name Ghost Rider. We’ll talk more about the connections to Marvel soon. For the moment let’s read this story.
I don’t see a date on the cover. Dick Ayers has signed the issue. The GCD credits the script to Ray Krank based on an interview with Ayers from 2001.
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