GHOST RIDER VS. FRANKENSTEIN

During the pre-Code comics era, there were numerous crossovers between horror and crime, horror and science-fiction, etc., but one of the strangest was it cross-pollinating with westerns. One example is a series of Ghost Rider stories that included horror elements in them.

This one from GHOST RIDER #10 is titled "The Ghost Rider vs. Frankenstein". Penciled by Dick Ayers and inked by Ernie Bache, there's a couple of nods to the 1931 Universal film with a torch-bearing posse and a burning windmill. Of course, the story is rooted in reality and not the supernatural, but we don't know that until the end.

GHOST RIDER

No. 10 (A-1 No. 71)

December 1952

Magazine Enterprises (ME Comics)

Editor: Raymond C. Krank

Cover: Dick Ayers

Pages: 36

Cover price: 10 cents