Gary Friedrich

Gary Friedrich (1943-2018) was an American comic book writer. Born in Jackson, Missouri, he followed his childhood friend Roy Thomas to Marvel Comics in the mid-1960s and made his name on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, which twice won the Alley Award for best war title. In 1972 he co-created Ghost Rider, the stunt rider Johnny Blaze who trades his soul to the devil, and he also co-created the Son of Satan; both belong to the horror line Marvel built in the 1970s and both are reprinted in the collections on this page. He died in 2018 after years of illness.