Ghost Rider
Roger McKenzie/Don Perlin

7 stories in GHOST RIDER 28-34 (1978).

Writer: Roger McKenzie.
Pencillers: Don Perlin, Tom Sutton.
Inkers: Owen McCarron, Pablo Marcos, Jim Mooney, Bob Layton.

• Evil is the Orb! - RM/DP/TS - 9/10
  
• Deadly Pawn! - RM/DP - 7/10
  
• The Mage and the Monster! - RM/DP - 8/10
  
• Demon’s Rage! - RM/DP - 9/10
  
• The Price! - RM/DP - 10/10
  
• Whom a Child Would Destroy! - RM/DP - 9/10
  
• The Boy Who Lived Forever! - RM/DP - 10/10

Average: 8.9/10

Evil is the Orb! (#28)
The Orb.
Another highly enjoyable issue.
Plenty of action, and an interesting foe.
GR gets help from a character who appeared briefly last issue, and Roxie is caught up in an interesting sub-plot.
9/10

Deadly Pawn! (#29)
Doctor Strange.
A pretty decent read.
At first, the reader is confused as to what exactly is happening.
And when events become clearer, we are intrigued by the villain’s plan.
And the cliffhanger makes us want to read on.
7/10

The Mage and the Monster! (#30)
This storyline gets better.
A very interesting hero vs hero battle, and one that shows Doctor Strange in a very favourable light, calmly reasoning his way through what is happening.
Great twist at the very end.
8/10

Demon’s Rage! (#31)
Very enjoyable.
First half is devoted to ending the story arc in progress. And it’s a battle with a couple of novel twists.
Second half kick-starts a new storyline with a chase and some very eye-catching visuals.
Had a lot of fun reading this.
9/10

The Price! (#32)
Great fun.
This one gives us a cool villain, an interesting backstory, and sets it all in a Western ghost town.
There are several battles with different foes, and the visuals are terrific.
Then, it has a downbeat ending.
Pretty much a perfect GR comic.
10/10

Whom a Child Would Destroy! (#33)
Lots of fun.
Story-driven and very interesting, as GR meets a fascinating character, with a fascinating power.
Things only get better when some villains show up.
The artwork/visuals are terrific, too.
It now feels as if the GR series I knew and loved has finally started.
9/10

The Boy Who Lived Forever! (#34)
Damn, but this is an excellent story.
The villain is vile, and responsible for some real horrors. It’s strong stuff.
And GR is now being written as a powerful and separate entity. We finally get the sense that Johnny is not there when GR goes into action. And that’s cool.
10/10

More info on the this run can be found at comicbookdb.com.
If you already logged in to the site, that link directly above should take you to the relevant McKenzie/Perlin issues and nothing else.

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Black Widow - Friedrich/Thomas/Colan/Heck (70-1) 4.3/10
Captain Marvel - Thomas/Colan (67-8) 5.5/10 - Drake/Heck (68) 4.8/10 - Friedrich/Thomas/Kane (69-70) 4.1/10 -
Daredevil - Conway/Colan (71-2) 6.7/10 - Gerber (73-4) 6.5/10 -
Deathlok - Moench/Mantlo/Buckler (74-6) 8.8/10
Ghost Rider - Friedrich (72-3) 2.6/10 - Isabella (74-6) 5.4/10 - Shooter/Heck (77) 6.7/10 - McKenzie/Perlin (78) 8.9/10 -
Iron Man - Brodsky/Heck (70) 7/10 -
Living Mummy - Isabella/Mayerik (73-5) 7.6/10
Luke Cage - Goodwin/Englehart/Tuska/Graham (72-3) 7.1/10 -
Night Nurse - Thomas/Mortimer (72) 6.3/10
Tales of the Zombie - Gerber/Marcos (73-4) 6.5/10

Nope, it's the second one, the motorcycle one. Oddly enough, I'm planning to read the cowboy one very soon.

Ah, gotcha. No, it's this guy. Called the Bounty Hunter.

The Living Mummy
Tony Isabella/Val Mayerik

10 stories in SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS 5, 7-15 (1973-1975).

Writers: Steve Gerber, Tony Isabella (6), Len Wein, John Warner.
Pencillers: Rich Buckler, Val Mayerik (8), Tom Sutton.
Inkers: Frank Chiaramonte, Dan Adkins, Dan Green, Al McWilliams.
Editors: Roy Thomas, Len Wein.

• The Living Mummy! - SG/RB - 8/10
  
• The Return of the Living Mummy! - SG/VM - 8/10
  
• Power Times Four! - TI/VM - 9/10
  
• Pyramind of Peril! - TI/VM - 9/10
  
• A Choice of Lions! - TI/LW/VM - 6/10
  
• The Asp’s Big Score! - TI/VM - 6/10
  
• The War That Shook the World! - TI/VM - 10/10
  
• A Separate War - TI/VM - 9/10
  
• All These Great Pawns! - JW/VM - 5/10
  
• Armageddon at the Aleph! - JW/TS - 8/10

Average: 7.6/10

The Living Mummy!
Exciting origin story.
And the Rich Buckler art is beautiful.
8/10

The Return of the Living Mummy!
Despite a long, pointless retelling of the previous issue’s events, this works really well.
Mostly because of the lead character and his predicament.
Difficult not to feel something for him, and his horrible plight.
8/10

Power Times Four!
Elementals.
Very enjoyable, mostly because of the noble, heroic, tragic lead character.
9/10

Pyramind of Peril!
An arrogant bad guy and a humble, but powerful, good guy.
I love stories like this, and this one works really well.
Not only hitting all the bases with regard to what you want to see, but delivering compelling reasons to come back for more.
9/10

A Choice of Lions!
It’s a very basic story, with a very basic flashback in it.
And some obvious parallels with the events happening ‘now’.
But it works very well.
Largely because the main character is so interesting.
6/10

The Asp’s Big Score!
Less about the lead character, more about the slow-moving story arc.
This chapter brings some points to fruition, so one would assume the story will conclude next time.
6/10

The War That Shook the World!
Spectacular action from start to finish, with some great character moments.
N'Kantu is definitely one of the best Marvel heroes.
And, while this story arc is dragging on a bit too long, this is thrilling stuff.
10/10

A Separate War
Full of action, with a dark, mature tone.
But the overall story arc isn’t going anywhere, despite all the activity.
This is quality stuff, no doubt, and because of that it seems picky to wish that the overall pace was faster. But I do.
9/10

All These Great Pawns!
Story doesn’t move forward.
Instead we get flashbacks and exposition.
Some of this does help us get to know the characters a bit better, but what we want now is a conclusion.
5/10

Armageddon at the Aleph!
The series concludes with an all-battle issue to end the story arc.
More enjoyable than it should be, seeing as it really is just a long fight.
But, at this stage, we like all the characters and - as fights go - it’s an unusual one (more in the style of something you might see in Doctor Strange).
Wisely, the writer gives the lead character a pivotal role to play, which keeps him from getting lost in the mix of interesting characters.
8/10

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Black Widow - Friedrich/Thomas/Colan/Heck (70-1) 4.3/10
Ghost Rider - Friedrich (72-3) 2.6/10 - Isabella (74-6) 5.4/10 - Shooter/Heck (77) 6.7/10 - McKenzie/Perlin (78) 8.9/10 -
Living Mummy - Isabella/Mayerik (73-5) 7.6/10
Tales of the Zombie - Gerber/Marcos (73-4) 6.5/10

Yup. I had never heard of it, either, before I read it but I now see that the Living Mummy character pops up in an issue of Marvel Two-in-One, an issue of Captain America and 3 issues of Quasar. Among others.
I last read these back in late 2013 and really enjoyed them. They are collected in volume 2 of Marvel Horror from the Marvel Essential line.

Cheers! I'll probably move away from horror for the next couple of posts.

If you don't mind the black and white Marvel Essentials line, I can tell you that the two Horror volumes contain complete runs of: Son of Satan, Satana, Living Mummy, Gabriel the Devil Hunter, Brother Voodoo, Golem, Scarecrow and Modred the Mystic. Most very enjoyable.

Delighted with that news. Really enjoyed the early issues of that SOS run.