


The character Daimon Hellstrom first appeared in Ghost Rider #1 (Sept. I explained it to Biljo, and he understood, but it was really weird, because if you look at his old fanzine, it's almost the same character!"

I think it just came out looking almost identical. The branded chest, a trident, and so forth. I realized that name and basic concept had been a fanzine comic by a friend of mine, Biljo White, back in the early '60s! He wound up looking even looking a lot like Biljo's character, by sheer coincidence, because I don't think Herb Trimpe and Gary Friedrich, who did the actual story, ever saw him and I don't think I described it much. Thomas has said he later realized that a 1960s fanzine character created by his friend Biljo White had looked very similar. However, Trimpe denies this, claiming Friedrich alone designed Daimon Hellstrom and only brought him in as artist after the character was fully realized. According to Thomas, Lee approved of the idea, and Gary Friedrich and Herb Trimpe were assigned the task of designing the character.
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Editor Roy Thomas had reservations about this idea and suggested a series focusing on the son of Satan instead (due to an oversight, "The Mark of Satan" is mentioned in a blurb in Ghost Rider #1). Art by John Romita Sr.Įncouraged by the success of the titles The Ghost Rider and The Tomb of Dracula, both of which starred occult characters, Stan Lee proposed a series starring Satan, to be titled The Mark of Satan. Daimon Hellstrom in the cover of Marvel Spotlight #13 (January 1974).
