ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER "Talking Head!"

It wasn't just cowboys and owlhoots who preyed upon peoples' superstitions and fears in the Weird West!

Native Americans also took advantage of them!

Penciled by co-creator Dick Ayers and inked by Ernie Bache, this tale from Magazine Enterprises' Best of the West #4 (1952) wasn't the only time the baddie was a Native American, nor the only time the evildoer was a woman!
In the Old West (as well as today), crime was an equal-opportunity business!

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ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER "Monster in the Mist!"

Monsters and creatures abounded in the Old West...

...as this never-reprinted tale from Magazine Enterprises' anthology Best of the West #2 (1951) shows!

Best of the West was a bi-monthly anthology title featuring new tales of four ME Western characters who already had their own books...

...done by the various series' usual creative teams to maintain consistency and continuity with the "parent" books!
It lasted from the end of 1951 to the beginning of 1954.

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ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER "Spirit Spurs"

Our Halloween journey through the Weird West continues...

...with the frontier's first masked "mystical" manhunter...who now faces a monster!

As this never-reprinted tale from Magazine Enterprises' Ghost Rider #10 (1952) shows, the Ghost Rider wasn't the only person to prey upon superstitious settlers' fears!

You should note the sheriff is extremely-skeptical about such creatures...and doesn't consider GR to be supernatural, even after his "escape"!

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ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER "Freaks of Fear!"

When the star of the comic you're guest-starring in gives you the cover spot...

...you know you've got a tale that's something special!

Penciled by co-creator Dick Ayers and inked by Ernie Bache, this never-reprinted (in color) tale from Magazine Enterprises' Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders #15 (1952) was the last of a three-issue run as a secondary feature to boost sales on the title.
In fact, they even tried adding horror elements to the lead feature...

...which wasn't very successful!

This was while the Ghost Rider was appearing both in his own comic and the anthology title Best of the West which also featured the Durango Kid, Tim Holt/RedMask, and Straight Arrow, all of whom had their own books!
Trivia: The B-Bar-B Riders comic was based on a Mutual Network radio series that ran from 1948 to 1955.

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