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Hell-Rider
Hell-Rider #1 (Aug. 1971). Painted cover by Harry Rosenbaum.
Publication information
PublisherSkywald Publications
First appearanceHell-Rider #1 (Aug. 1971)
Created byGary Friedrich, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito
Hell-Rider
Publication information
ScheduleBimonthly
FormatOngoing series
Publication dateAug. – Oct. 1971
No. of issues2
Main character(s)Hell-Rider
Creative team
Written byGary Friedrich
Penciller(s)Ross Andru
Inker(s)Mike Esposito
Editor(s)Gary Friedrich
Sol Brodsky

Hell-Rider is a short-lived, black-and-white

comic books' Comics Code Authority
. Its cover price was 60¢, typical for that format and time, during which standard comic books sold for 15¢.

Publication history

Main feature

Lasting two 64-page issues, Hell-Rider (

pot-smoking 1970s chicks all quickly losing what little clothing they wore.[3]

The series was created by Gary Friedrich, who would go on to co-create the better-known,

Sub-Mariner in 1939, has an unexplained credit for "special effects",[2][3] which Al Hewetson, an editor of other Skywald titles, said in 2004 "probably refers to art corrections, assists and/or character designs."[4]

Panel from Hell-Rider #1, art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. The blood-spewing violence was graphic for the time.

The title character's name is sometimes spelled "Hell Rider", without a hyphen, in the stories.

A house ad for the never-published Hell-Rider #3, with cover art by Gray Morrow for a story titled "The Zodiac Killers", appeared as the back cover of Skywald's Psycho #5 (Nov. 1971).[3]

Backup features

The magazine's backup features, whose stories were interrelated with those of the main feature, were "The Butterfly" and "The Wild Bunch", both written by Friedrich.

The former starred

biker gang that Reese had encountered, consisting of leader Animal; Afro-haired Deke; weaselly Slinker; tall, blond Curly; and blond biker-babe Ruby.[3]

Art credits for the first issue's backups are disputed, with sources suggesting either John Celardo and Rich Buckler as the "Butterfly" penciler, and either Dick Ayers or Syd Shores as the "Wild Bunch" penciler. The second issue's "Butterfly" story is credited to penciler-inker Buckler, and its "Wild Bunch" story to Shores and inker Esposito,[2][3][4]

The magazine also included a motorcycle-related Q&A and advice column, "Curly's Cycle Corner", also written by Friedrich.[2][3]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1605490564
    .
  2. ^ a b c d Hell-Rider at the Grand Comics Database
  3. ^ a b c d e f Arndt, Richard J. (2007). "The Complete Skywald Checklist". Archived from the original on May 10, 2010.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-1900486378
    .

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