GHOST RIDER Volume 2 Hardcover

#6 and 8 have drug use stories! All interior art is by Dick Ayers in this very popular series, which would inspire the later Marvel character. Ghost Rider had great horror elements, which fit right in with the popular horror genres before the Comics Code came along. Ayers said this was his very favorite strip to draw, and he did a wonderful job, long before he became Jack Kirby's regular inker in the early Marvel monster and super hero comics. 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 cape that had phosphorescence on one side and black on the other, he could cover parts of his body to give the illusion that he was merely a floating head or pair of hands. To further the illusion, he wielded a black lariat and black bullwhip! 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!