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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published February 1978
Cover Price 0.35
Pages 36
Editing Archie Goodwin

Cover Details

Characters Ghost Rider; The Orb
Genre superhero; occult
Pencils Ernie Chan
Inks Ernie Chan
Letters Annette Kawecki?
Reprinted In Essential Ghost Rider #2

17 page Ghost Rider story "Evil Is the Orb!"

Characters FEATURE: Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; GUESTS: Brahma Bill; Roxanne Simpson; VILLAIN: The Orb
Synopsis While on the road, Ghost Rider crashes and has to make his was as Johnny to the nearest town where he is accosted by The Orb looking for revenge; Roxanne is trying to track down her beau in the same town but is confronted by The Orb who steals her memories; After helping GR fight off The Orb and his gang, Brahma Bill takes advantage of Roxy's situation and tells her she is his girl while Johnny, unaware that she is so close, rides off.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Roger McKenzie
Pencils Don Perlin (pages 1-16); Tom Sutton (pages 17-31)
Inks Owen McCarron (pages 1-15); Pablo Marcos (pages 16-31)
Colors Phil Rachelson
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Joe Rosen
Notes Pablo Marcos inks Perlin's last page and all of the Sutton pages. Artist information 2005 by Steven Tice; Subversive Moment Alert: Without his bike and looking for a ride, Johnny is offered a lift by a hippe in a psychadelic dune buggy with the name "The Grass Hut" written on the side. The driver offers our hero a joint while he tells him, "Take a drag on this. It'll help settle yer nerves for ya!" Johnny, of course, refuses and looks for another ride.
Reprinted In Essential Ghost Rider #2