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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Ghost Rider |
 | | Marvel's first issue (February, 1967) told the story of Carter Slade, a school teacher from Ohio, moving west to help make that region hospitable to families with children. |
 | | Flaming Star, medicine man to a nearby Comanche community, healed Carter and, seeing in him the fulfillment of a prophecy, gave him certain "magical" devices, which mostly consisted of a naturally luminescent substance that could be used to make clothing, guns, horses and suchlike glow in the dark. |
 | | By leaving the inside of his cape fl, Carter could manipulate it to make part or all of his body seem to disappear, and thus fool criminals (a cowardly, superstitious lot, as comic book readers all know) into thinking he was a supernatural being. |
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