

Wilke) take matters into their own hands -a “Gang-Stooge Terror Plot,” according to the ads - and eventually run afoul of Tim and Chito. Roberts and his bunch (which naturally includes Robert J.

This will destroy Paul Manning’s supply business and keep him from paying off his loans to Brad Roberts (Hugh Beaumont). Terry Muldoon (Gail Davis) and her father are running the wire westward, and its completion will close down a number of military outposts.

This time around, Tim Holt and Chito get involved with the transcontinental telegraph. Wilke (Bellew), Cliff Clark (Terence Muldoon), Russell Hicks (Colonel Marvin), Robert Bray (Steve), Fred Graham (Joe). Roy Hunt, ASCĬAST: Tim Holt (Tim Holt), Richard Martin (Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamonte Rafferty), Gail Davis (Terry Muldoon), Hugh Beaumont (Brad Roberts), Mari Blanchard (Stella), George Nader (Paul Manning) Robert J. View the certification for CGC Certification ID 3727488001 and purchase grader's notes if available.Director Of Photography: J. Tim Holt #17 (Magazine Enterprises, 1950) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages. Frank Frazetta Ghost Rider/branding iron torture cover. Tim Holt #17 (Magazine Enterprises, 1950) Ghost Rider cover by Frank Frazetta.

There's a Tim Holt #17 (Magazine Enterprises, 1950) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages available in this week's 2021 June 13-14 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation & Art Select Auction at Heritage Auctions. The true history behind Ghost Rider makes the character an important part of the American pop culture landscape, and Tim Holt #17 is a spectacular example of the early comic book version. That would be an extremely accurate commentary on how Ghost Rider is portrayed in comics and film to this day. At what point, I wonder, does it stop being revenge?" Thinking back on Espinosa, which clearly troubled him his entire life, Tobin said: "It occurs to me that the question is not whether a choice exists between bad and good, but whether certain men are even aware of the difference. Espinosa's legend also grew to include a night-riding spectral horseman over time. Another telling of the incident has the rider keeping his head, and becoming a sort of cloaked, spectral figure with glowing eyes, and still others where the horseman becomes a protector rather than a warning.īut the Spirit of Vengeance aspect of the historic Ghost Rider characters is also likely inspired by the terrible exploits of Felipe Espinosa, who brutally killed 32 people in Colorado in 1863 on a mission of what he characterized as divinely-inspired vengeance, and was ultimately killed and by legendary tracker Tom Tobin. The story goes that he and others had a skirmish with horse thieves, and after killing one of their band, beheaded him and sent his corpse off into the night tied to his horse, as a warning to other bandits. One part of the inspiration for this tale can be attributed to a legend surrounding Texas Ranger Creed Taylor. The true roots of the Spirit of Vengeance can be firmly traced to the American West. The nod to a Headless Horseman gives us another clue as to where the Ghost Rider legends come from, but it's not exactly about Sleepy Hollow. They were sometimes even called Ghost Rider. There are several examples of highly similar characters from the pulp and dime novel eras. "He told me to go see Disney's Sleepy Hollow - Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman - and then he told me to play the Vaughn Monroe record, "Ghost Riders in the Sky." And then he started talking about what he wanted the guy wearing."īut that's only part of the story. "Vin would come in and sit down and describe what he wanted in The Ghost Rider," Ayers later recalled. If you're unaware that there was a Ghost Rider character before Marvel's versions, the typical explanation goes something like this: This comic book version was created by Dick Ayers under the direction of Magazine Enterprises editor Vincent Sullivan.
