Atlas' Personal Ghost Rider

When Chip Goodman didn't get the gig as publisher of Marvel after his father Martin stepped down, the family set up their own company labeled Atlas/Seaboard. They hired Jonah Hex writer Michael Fleisher along with artist Ernie Colon to create their first supernatural superhero. The Grim Ghost was a dandy highwayman in colonial America whose relationship with a debutante got him sent to Hell for his earthly deeds, but Satan takes a shine to the masked bandit and sends him back to the living world to increase the afterlife's population. The hiccup comes from the fact that Beelzebub warps him to modern day 1970s where he is several centuries out of date, meaning he needed to spend several months learning the latest disco moves in order to fit in. Grim Ghost rode around the city on a flying horse and used his powers to change bad guy bullets into confetti. When he is not out collecting more of Satan's little helpers, Grim Ghost gets teamed up with his ex-girlfriend that caused him to die in the first place in order to take out the competition, the big bad new devil daddy Brimstone who wants to buy out Hell to set up his own franchise. If taking on the sinful spirits of the underworld wasn't punishment enough, now Grim Ghost has to pretend being the brother of his former lover as they battle Brimstone. Love in the workplace causes enough problems, but an inner office romance coupled with taking barking orders from the Devil himself is like an extra few dozen circles of the living inferno.

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