Ghost Rider at 50

Ghost Rider, the flaming skeletal motorbike stuntman version, first appeared in comics in May 1972 (dated August) and this escapee from a metalhead logo design has had a wild ride since.

Not least being played by Nicolas Cage.

(Who had to get his Ghost Rider tattoo covered to play him.)

(Later Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes got closer to the MCU with an arc in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season four.)

Confusingly a Rollins Band cover of a Suicide song about him appears on the soundtrack to The Crow, while the song in question never appears in either Cage film.

I was the right age for the 1990 version starring Danny Ketch instead of Johnny Blaze. This made Ghost Rider a legacy character, and brought Blaze in to introduce a rather involved backstory assorted empowering spirits and demons.

Ghost Rider has since become a retcon legacy character with Riders for previous eras being introduced as well.

But not this one by Mike Bear.