Roberto Reyes's car is a 1969 Dodge charger muscle car. After the western cartoon characters adopted this name for the first time, Johnny Blaze, the first superhero knight of evil spirits, made his debut in the fifth issue (August 1972) of the Marvel comic book spotlight, which was jointly completed by the author and editor RoyThomas and the sketch artist Jim Mooney. Some different creative teams got together and worked together until sketch artist Don Perlin started working in the 26th issue, and finally writer Michael Fleisher joined in the 58th issue.
Roy Thomas, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics at that time, described the creative origin of this role like this:
I made up a villain in Daredevil's story-a gloomy character-called stunt master ... motorcycle rider. However, when Gary Friedrich started writing The Tale of the Brave, he said, "I would rather turn this villain into a really strange motorcycle rider, called the Ghost Knight, than make up a stunt master. "He didn't describe him in detail. I said, "Gary, only one thing is wrong." Then he looked at me with a strange look, because we are old friends of Missouri, and I said, "It's a pity that such a good character idea is only used as a villain in the story of the brave." He should start his own story at once. "Gary wasn't there when we designed this role. Mike Prugger will be the author of this story. He and I designed the role together. I came up with the idea of a skull. The costume was a special jumpsuit worn by Elvis Presley 1968, and Prugger thought his head would catch fire just because he thought it was beautiful. Gary liked it very much, and they began to do something.
Gary Friedrich mentioned above said in 2006,54,38+0:
Well, Roy and Mike and I have an argument on this point. I have threatened more than once that if Marvel Comics can make movies or make a lot of money with it, I will sue them, and I will probably do so ... It was my idea. This has been my idea since we first talked about it. The idea is a motorcyclist with a burning skull. Prugger seems to think that burning the skull was his idea. But, to be honest, it was my idea.
Prugger recalled in an interview in 2008:
Well, there has been a conversation about who created the evil spirit knight. Gary Friedrich is the author of this story ... the burning skull: this is a big controversy. Who thought of a burning skull? Honestly, I don't remember. What else do you want to do to him? You can't put a helmet on him, so it must be a fire skeleton. Speaking of his costume, it is a part of the costume of the old (western) evil knight, with a western panel in front. The stripes on my arms and legs are just to make my figure as black and fit as possible. This is the easiest way to design him. Tony Isabella wrote a story line for two years. Blazere met an unknown person named "friend" by chance, and he helped Blazere avoid Satan's intrusion.
Isabella said that if the editor allowed, he could introduce the character. He "looks like a hippie-just like Jesus Christ, that's what he is, even though I've never called him that …" At the climax of the story, Isabella intends to let Blazere "accept Jesus Christ into his life. This gave him the power to conquer Satan, even though it used more fireworks than most of us could collect. He kept the power of the evil knight given to him by Satan, but because of his new belief, these powers can be used by him. " However, Isabella said that Jim Shute, who later became an assistant editor, "was very angry with my report. When the story was ready for printing, he tore it into pieces. In order to change the ending of a story that has been developed for two years, he has redrawn some pictures and rewritten many materials. " The last true face of a "friend" is not Jesus, but a disguised demon. Today, I think what he did to my story is one of the three most arrogant and stubborn misdeeds I have ever seen as an editor.
As the evil knight Blase's demon Zarathustra escaped in the same finale episode # 81(1June, 983) in order to chase a villain named Centurious (both of them were trapped in the soul crystal), Blase's evil knight career ended. After getting rid of his curse, Blazere left to live with roxanne. Then Brazer occasionally appeared in the V2 story of 1990- 1998, and was played by another related character, Daniel Dan Ketch. The story says that Brazer and roxanne finally got married and had two children.
As a knight of evil spirits, Blazere wrote a six-part short story by Devon Grayson at 200 1 (V3). Another short story written by Garth Ennis in 2005 (the road to V4 scourge); It reappeared in the monthly series of stories published in June 2006 (V5). On April 4, 2007, Friedrich filed a written lawsuit in the federal district court of southern Illinois, accusing Marvel Comics, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures Group, Relativity Media, Crystal Sky Pictures, Michael Drucker Industries, Hasbro and Take-Two Interactive (who published comics, movies, toys and games of Ghost Rider respectively), and claimed that their roles were "Ghost Rider". The lawsuit claims that the film copyright and its bonus were returned to him by Marvel Comics in 200 1 year. He amended the lawsuit on March 25th, 20th11. The case was transferred to the Southern District Court of new york on February 4, 2008.
The lawsuit ended on February 28th, 201kloc-0/65438, and Marvel Comics won all the cases except one case. Katherine Forrest, a US District Judge, ruled that Marvel Entertainment owned the copyright of the character, and explained that Friedrich had given up any statement about copyright when he signed the check containing the waiver of all copyright languages. She said that Friedrich also signed a 1978 agreement with Marvel Comics to give up copyright. Marvel Comics filed a counterclaim. However, Marvel Comics reached an agreement with Friedrich that Marvel Comics would give up the lawsuit, and Friedrich would compensate for the loss of $65,438+07,000, and stop selling his articles related to the evil knight, and stop promoting himself as the creator of the character in order to get money. Friedrich was allowed to sell his autograph on the officially authorized products of the Knight of the Evil Spirit. On June, 2065438 1 1, Judge Denny Chin, the ad litem judge of the Second Circuit Court, revoked the first-instance judgment, saying that the language of the contract was "ambiguous" and the case would be retried. It will be held on June 5438+0 1. On September 6, Friedrich's lawyer told the court that the two sides "have amicably agreed to settle all the claims."