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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published October 1974
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36

Cover Details

Characters Night Rider; Banshee
Genre Western
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Tom Palmer

16 page Night Rider story "The Origin of the Night Rider"

Characters Carter Slade [Night Rider] (Introduction); Flaming Star (Introduction) ; Banshee (Introduction) ; Jamie Jacobs (Introduction); Blackie ; Jason Bartholomew; Benjamin Brooks (Introduction); Natalie Brooks (Introduction)
Synopsis Carter Slade, a school teacher from Ohio, is on his way to his new job in Bison Bend when he comes upon a gang dressed up as Indians killing a family. He tries to stop them and is almost killed. The only surviving member of the family (Jamie Jacobs) finds Carter and tries to help him. They are both found by Flaming Star, an Indian who believes that Carter Slade is the promised white warrior that the spirits told him about. He gives Carter some stardust that enables him to become the Night Rider. Carter then takes Jamie Jacobs to live with him and defeats Blackie and Jason Bartholomew's gang as the Night Rider.
Genre Western
Script Gary Friedrich; Roy Thomas (writers); Dick Ayers (plot)
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters John Verpoorten
Editing Stan Lee
Reprinted from Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1967 series) #1 [-1 page]

4 page story "The Walking Target!"

Genre Western
Pencils Ted Galindo
Inks Ted Galindo
Reprinted from Quick-Trigger Western (Marvel, 1956 series) #18