I'm guessing that if you were to search CAF for commissioned pieces featuring Hell-Rider -- not including my gallery -- you'd probably come up with next to nothing. Hell-Rider appeared in his own short-lived (two issues) black and white magazine published by Skywald in the early 1970s. He hasn't been seen in a published comic feature since.
So why do I find him so appealing? Even I'm not sure. But, man -- I've commissioned drawings and pages of him by quite a few artists. None of them had ever drawn him before, and I really enjoy seeing them do their interpretation of this obscure character. This time around, I had a page from the second issue of his comic revisualized and redrawn by Ben Herrera. This was my first time commissioning Ben, and he was a pleasure to do business with. Of course, the inks are by my perennial go-to inker, Bob Almond, who is shown here inking Ben for the first time. Just a super job by both gentlemen. The original art is by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito.
Hell-Rider is shown here tailing some human traffickers on a desert highway from Mexico into California. He has a flame thrower mounted on his bike and he is NOT shy about using it, as one burnt to a crisp bad guy here finds out the hard way. He may have been a cold-blooded killer, but now he's hot-blooded. Check it and see!
***Special thanks to the great MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE 76 GUY himself, BRIAN SAGAR, for using his technical wizardry to merge the two images above together! Not to mention being the inspiration for the Heroes Redrawn concept!***
