Marvel Spotlight #5 / Ghost Rider - Mike Ploog art & cover
Marvel Spotlight v1 #5 featuring Ghost Rider, 1972 - The modern age Ghost Rider bursts onto the scene in his very first appearance. The old western hero on horseback is replaced by a flaming headed motorcyclist, beholden to the devil. Marvel introduced a wave of monster-related antiheroes during the early 1970s, and in this case combined it with the Evel Knievel / daredevil fads at the time. Along with the Man-Thing, the Ghost Rider proved to be the most popular of that genre. Mike Ploog, former assistant to the legendary Will Eisner, illustrated most of these new titles including Frankenstein and Werewolf By Night. His loose and sometimes cartoonish style has obvious Eisner influences, but the spontaneity and intensity are uniquely his own. Most notably, the sequence showing the death defying motorcycle jump (shown above) is a masterpiece of visual storytelling. This is number 4 of 7 Marvel Spotlight issues with Ploog art. See today's posts or more Ploog, Ghost Rider or Marvel Spotlight issues.
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Ploog cover pencils and inks = ***, "Origin of the Ghost Rider" Ploog story pencils (Frank Chiaramonte inks) 22 pages = ****
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