Suddenly, everything makes sense. Ever since Marvel’s very first Ghost Rider, Carter Slade, first debuted in Ghost Rider #1 (1966), every character who has shared the title has been engulfed in ...

Marvel’s Golden Age featured gunslingers ... and her need for vengeance made Kushala the Ghost Rider of the mid-1800s. Carter Slade was also around, but not an official Rider.

Johnny Blaze is the second character in Marvel Comics to hold the Ghost Rider title, coming after Carter Slade (who was an Old-West gunfighter who rode a horse eventually renamed Phantom Rider).

and Roy Thomas Carter Slade aka Phantom Rider (originally Ghost Rider) was technically the first version of Ghost Rider to ...