Talk:Ghost Rider (comic book)

Original Ghost Rider
Since my change got reverted, I will attempt to justify it here. According to Wikipedia article on Dick Ayers, "With writer Ray Krank, Ayers created the horror-themed Western character Ghost Rider in Tim Holt #11 (1949). The character appeared in stories through the run of Tim Holt, Red Mask, A-1 Comics, Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders, and the 14-issue solo series The Ghost Rider (1950–1954),[12] up through the introduction of the Comics Code. The character's genesis came, Ayers recalled in 2003, when Sullivan "describe[d] what he wanted in the Ghost Rider" and told Ayers to see the 1949 Disney animated feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, one segment of which adapted Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", featuring the Headless Horseman. "[A]nd then he told me to play the Vaughn Monroe record "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky". And then he started talking about what he wanted the guy wearing."[13]

"After the trademark to the character's name and motif lapsed, Marvel Comics debuted its own near-identical, non-horror version of the character in Ghost Rider #1 (Feb. 1967), by writers Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich and original Ghost Rider artist Ayers.[11]"

The Grand Comics Database includes that series and that character, for 1949-1954.

Without my change, the phrase "original Ghost Rider artist Ayers" is lacking. For one thing, we have included the writers' first names but not the artist's first name. For another thing, people would wonder why does this sentence make a point of referring to Ayers as the "original artist" but doesn't call Thomas and Friedrich the "original writers"? That answer is that there was another Ghost Rider character and comic series before 1967 that the Dick Ayers article notes and that I thought should be noted in this article. If we want to omit, in this article, all mention of the original series, then we should replace "original Ghost Rider artist Ayers" with "artist Dick Ayers". PatConolly (talk) 03:22, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Since no one fixed the sentence to say who Ayers was or why he was labeled "original", I put back my information with a link to the original 1950's series. PatConolly (talk) 22:07, 27 December 2022 (UTC)