Ghost Rider
Night Rider
Phantom Rider
He Who Rides the Night Winds
Son of the Spirits
Ghost Rider I
Carter Slade
Ghost Rider II
Jamie Jacobs
Ghost Rider III
Lincoln Slade
Ghost Rider IV
Reno Jones
Ghost Rider V
Hamilton Slade
Ghost Rider I
Crime Fighter
School Teacher
Ghost Rider II
Crime Fighter
Ghost Rider III
Crime Fighter
U.S. Marshal
Ghost Rider IV
Crime Fighter
Former Slave
Ghost Rider V
Adventurer
Archeologist
Ghost Rider I
Citizen of the United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider II
Citizen of the United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider III
Citizen of the United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider IV
Citizen of the United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider V
Citizen of the United States with no criminal record.
Ghost Rider I
Ohio
Ghost Rider II
Western United States
Ghost Rider III
Western United States
Ghost Rider IV
United States
Ghost Rider V
Reno, Nevada
Ghost Rider I
None
Ghost Rider II
None
Ghost Rider III
U.S. Marshals
Ghost Rider IV
Gunhawks
Ghost Rider V
(The) Rangers
Ghost Rider I
Western United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider II
Western United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider III
Western United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider IV
Western United States of the 19th Century.
Ghost Rider V
Western United States.
Ghost Rider I
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Ghost Rider V
6' 1"
Ghost Rider I
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Ghost Rider IV
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Ghost Rider V
200 lbs.
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Ghost Rider IV
Brown
Ghost Rider V
Blue
Ghost Rider I
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Ghost Rider IV
Black
Ghost Rider V
Reddish-Brown
Ghost Rider I
Caucasian
Ghost Rider II
Caucasian
Ghost Rider III
Caucasian
Ghost Rider IV
Negroid
Ghost Rider V
Caucasian
Ghost Rider I - III
Normal humans wearing white costume dusted with a phosphorescent substance derived from a meteorite; granting superhuman strength and an ability to become intangible at will.
Ghost Rider IV
Normal human with exceptional firearms skills.
Ghost Rider V
Normal human possessed by the spirit or spirits of his ancestors which transforms him into a supernatural being with superhuman strength and an ability to become intangible or invisible at will, when evil is detected in his vicinity.
Ghost Rider I - III
Ghost Rider Costume: White costume dusted with a phosphorescent substance derived from a meteorite; granting superhuman strength and intangibility at will.
Ghost Rider IV
Weapons typical to the western United States of the late 19th Century.
Ghost Rider V
Banshee: Ethereal horse which materializes when Slade is transformed into the Ghost Rider.
Colt .44 Revolvers: Two mystical handguns which fire "phantom bullets" which incapacitate living beings for a limited time. The bullets do not effect inanimate objects and can be fired through solid substances to his a target.
Mystical Lariat: Lasso which can become tangible or intangible at the will of the Ghost Rider. The lasso can pass through solid objects to snare living creatures on the other side.
Ghost Rider I
Outlaws & Bandits
Ghost Rider II
Outlaws & Bandits
Ghost Rider III
Outlaws & Bandits
Ghost Rider IV
Night Riders
Ghost Rider V
Corrupter
Moondark
Ghost Rider I
Ghost Rider Vol. 1
Western Gunfighters
Ghost Rider II
Ghost Rider Vol. 1
Ghost Rider III
West Coast Avengers Vol. 2
Western Gunfighters
Ghost Rider V
Blaze of Glory
Ghost Rider V
Ghost Rider Vol. 2
Incredible Hulk Vol. 1
Ghost Rider I
Ghost Rider Vol. 1 #1 (Feb. 1967)
Ghost Rider II
Western Gunfighters Vol.2 #7 (Jan. 1972)
Ghost Rider III
Western Gunfighters Vol.2 #7 (Jan. 1972)
Ghost Rider IV
Blaze of Glory #3 (March, 2000)
Ghost Rider V
Ghost Rider Vol. 2 #56 (May, 1981)
Ghost Rider I
Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas & Dick Ayers
Note: Dick Ayers is credited with creating a western Ghost Rider character for Magazine Enterprises in 1950.
Ghost Rider II
Len Wein & Dick Ayers
Ghost Rider III
Len Wein & Dick Ayers
Ghost Rider IV
John Ostrander & Leonardo Manco
Ghost Rider V
Michael Fleisher & Don Perlin
Creating a legend of a phantom horseman who rode the frontier dispensing justice, Slade was called by various other names; Night Rider, Phantom Rider, the Galloping Ghost, the Haunted Horseman and He Who Rides the Night Winds. When Carter Slade was killed by outlaws his sidekick Jamie Jacobs briefly took his place and suffered the same fate of death. Slade's brother, a U.S. Marshal named Lincoln adopted the mantle and continued the quest for justice of the Ghost Rider.
In unrelated events, emancipated slave Reno Jones moved west with his childhood friend Kid Cassidy, the son of Jones' dead slave master. Cassidy became increasing embittered by the South's loss of the Civil War and the loss of his personal fortune. After Cassidy threatened Jones with a gun the former slave was forced to shoot down his childhood friend. Jones eventually settled in Wonderment, Montana to start a family.
Unknown to Jones, Cassidy survived and joined a band of white supremacists known as the Night Riders. The Night Riders had been terrorizing Wonderment, prompting Jones to call upon other western heroes to defend the town, he himself donning a white costume and dubbing himself the Ghost Rider.
Almost a century after Carter Slade donned the Ghost Rider costume his descendent Hamilton Slade became an heir to the legacy.
An archeologist interested in American Indian lore, Hamilton Slade was intrigued by his family tales of adventure in the wild west. Leading a team of archaeologists into the Nevada dessert, Slade came upon the ancient resting place of his ancestor in a subterranean cave beneath a Comanche burial mound. Exploring the site alone, Slade was startled by a ghostly garb levitating from a burial urn. In a flash of blinding light, Slade was possessed by the spirit of the phantom horseman and acquired the spectral powers of the Ghost Rider.