Ghost Rider (1950 Magazine Enterprises) comic books 1955 or before

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(A-1 Comics #27) Cover by Dick Ayers. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Gardner Fox, C. W. Winter, Howard Larsen and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #27. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. The masked gunslinger formerly known as The Calico Kid (actually Marshal Rex Fury) takes on a new identity, using special effects to fool evildoers into thinking he is a vengeful spirit; Outlaws face the various tricks Ghost Rider uses to appear as if he is an actual ghost. This was the first character to use the name and the very cool Western-themed Ghost Rider design, both of which have remained in use to the present day, but for different characters. The Ghost Rider; The Fire Ghost!; The Saga o' Sagebrush Sam; Spook Justice; Western 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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#2 (A-1 Comics #29) Cover by Frank Frazetta. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Dick Ayers and others. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #29. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A ghostly stagecoach means death for the four benevolent ranchers who have been targeted by a bizarre ritual; GR tames the untamable Wild-Man Feeney; The Ghost Rider battles a secret society of white-robed, hooded figures terrorizing migrant farmers. Death's Stagecoach; The Taming of Wild-Man Feeney; Death Wears a White Mask; The Haunted Castle! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #31) Cover by Frank Frazetta. Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #31. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. The Ghost Rider sets out to stop a train robbery, but he's not prepared for the gang's dynamite; When outlaws target the woman who inherited The Bar-O Ranch, Rex Fury must become Ghost Rider to protect her; GR steps in when an outlaw tries to take over Linda Perry's silver mine. The Blasts of Doom!; Dead Man's Bluff!; The Ghost Rider Strikes By Day; Grim Treasure! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #34) Cover by Frank Frazetta. Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #34. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. Outlaws dress as ghosts and hide out in a graveyard, but GR out-haunts them; A dying man's last words warn Ghost Rider of the Looking-Glass Killer; A woman sought by killers puts Rex on the trail of the Ghost Train full of dead men. Cool creepy cover by Frazetta offers a hint of what was to come. The Greedy Ghosts of Boot Hill!; The Looking-Glass Killer!; The Ghost Train of Golden Gorge!; Black Magic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #37) Cover by Frank Frazetta. Art by Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #37. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A sadistic rancher tries to cheat his niece out of the land she inherited; A corrupt white man tries to gin up conflict between Natives and settlers for his own agenda; A cavalry stalked by an Apache war party becomes a Doom Patrol (years before the superhero team of that name). The Spirit Speaks!; Laughing Boy!; The Tyrant of Brimstone!; Doom Patrol! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #44) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #44. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. Ghost Rider learns a startling secret about two feuding families that puts their long-standing grudges in a new light; A tough outlaw and a canny con man join forces to take on the Ghost Rider; Outlaws hopped up on loco weed believe they have killed Rex Fury, the Ghost Rider's secret identity. The Heritage of Hate!; The Menace of the Midget!; The Hermit of Howling Gap!; The Death of Rex Fury! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #51) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #51. Adventures of the original Ghost Rider, a Western marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. With this issue, the series takes on horror elements to fit with the horror trend in 1950s comics. A cursed Native tomb seems to be guarded by a winged serpent whose bite means death; The Ghost Rider seeks the truth about zombie gunfighters that are murdering ranchers in a small town, so he creates some zombies of his own; In Tales of the Ghost Rider, a rancher battles a white wolf that he soon learns is actually a werewolf. The Haunted Tomb!; The League of the Living Dead!; Tales of the Ghost Rider: The Bloody Fangs of Fear!; The Murder in Wax! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #57) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #57. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A ghoulish innkeeper robs and murders the hapless passengers of any stagecoaches that stop at The Inn on Skull Mountain; Beautiful vampire Ysabella sets up shop in an old ranch house and soon begins to prey on the townspeople; A modern version of an old folk tale, as the Grim Reaper is surprised to see a man whose death has been foretold by a fortune teller. The Inn on Skull Mountain!; Tales of the Ghost Rider: A Thirst for Blood!; The Knife in the Night!; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Death Came Calling; The Haunted Girl! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #67) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #67. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A monstrous vulture is attacking villagers, but turns out to be a man in a vulture costume, much like the later Spider-Man villain; Settlers ill-advisedly move into Hate Town, heedless of the curse that turned it into a ghost town; A hanged outlaw returns from the dead to continue robbing stagecoaches. Also featuring an ad for an official Ghost Rider scarf/mask for kids to wear. The Vulture Swoops; Hate Town, USA; The Left Boot Murders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #71) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #71. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. The Ghost Rider investigates after the Monster of Frankenstein itself suddenly begins terrorizing his little Western town; Jed Gunner sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for a gold mine; Ghost Rider learns that the tiger terrorizing a traveling circus is actually two contortionists in a bullet-proof tiger suit. Ghost Rider vs. Frankenstein; Tales of the Ghost Rider: The Devil and Jed Gunner; The Spirit Spurs; Tales of the Ghost Rider: My Friend the Hangman; The Devil Tiger. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #80) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #75. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A witch summons demons to terrorize a town after her father's murder, but something doesn't add up; A killer is tormented by the disembodied hand of the man he buried alive; A reporter thinks he's figured out the secret identity of the Ghost Rider. The Beautiful Witch; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Hand Wrenched from the Grave; Assignment: Ghost Rider; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Tortures of the Damned; The Haunted Portrait! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #80. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. Zombies bring hapless victims to the devil for murder, but Rex Fury suspects the killer is all too mortal; A woman shopping for a wedding dress meets a spidery old lady in a shop that's been closed for a decade; A Scotland Yard detective chases a cursed gem around the world and right to the Ghost Rider's doorstep. The Devil Deals In Death; Tales of the Ghost Rider: A Web For Her Wedding Dress; Gunfire at Death Cavern; The Man From Scotland Yard; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Concerto for Horror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #84) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #84 or Tales of The Ghost Rider #13 (the title on the cover). Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. Ghost Rider meets man-eating ants with his own army of ants, and faces a death-trap while buried up to his neck; Prehistoric monsters and a living skeleton inhabit Dead Man's Cave, but GR senses a con job; Ghost Rider faces off against his Native American counterpart, The Spectral Warrior. The Ghost Ants of San Pedro!; Play of Death!; The Horror of Dead Man's Cave!; The Spectral Warrior! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #112) Cover by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #112 . Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A mystery killer leaves his victims bare-chested for some reason; A vulture narrates a macabre tale of murder and death in the desert; Outlaws band together and hire a specialist to take out the Ghost Rider once and for all. The Treasure Chest Murders!; Tales of the Ghost Rider: My Two Friends!; The Man Who Hated!; Target: Ghost Rider!; Tales of the Ghost Rider: The Fastest Gunman in the Cemetery! Final issue of the series; the Ghost Rider continued to appear in Tim Holt/Red Mask (1954). Marvel's similar (Western) Ghost Rider debuted in 1967. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.