Ghost (Dark Horse Comics)

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Ghost

Ghost Special #2, featuring Yvonne Epstein on the cover
Publication information
Publisher Dark Horse Comics
First appearance Comics' Greatest World: Arcadia Week 3
Created by Team CGW
In-story information
Alter ego Elisa Cameron
Team affiliations Barb Wire, X
Abilities Intangibility, teleportation

Ghost is the fictional superhero of an eponymous comic book published by American company Dark Horse Comics. The character appeared in specials and monthly titles detailing the afterlife of Elisa Cameron and her search for the truth surrounding her (apparent) death.

Ghost first appeared in Comics' Greatest World, week three, in 1993. After a popular special in 1994, a monthly title devoted to the character began publication in 1995. It ran for 36 issues, followed by a six-month break and a second series of 22 issues. The second series was a continuation of the first with a number of changes, including new details about Ghost's origin. The stories in both series were based in (and around) the city of Arcadia, in a self-contained fictional universe outlined in Dark Horse's Comics' Greatest World.

Ghost continued appearing in her own titles (and others) into the 2000s, including several crossovers unrelated to Comics' Greatest World. Most notable among these were a two-issue crossover with Dark Horse's Hellboy (Ghost/Hellboy), and a four-issue crossover with DC Comics' Batgirl (Ghost/Batgirl: The Resurrection Machine). Ghost was ranked 15th on the Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.[1]

List of appearances

Collaborations

Characters

Family

Friends

Crossover characters

Villains

Volume one

Creators

The first series and the first special (1995–1998) were written by Eric Luke, who gave the character an intelligence uncommon in contemporary female superheroes. The artwork was done by a number of people, and the series maintained high visual standards. Arcadia was intended to be grim, yet Art Deco; this was particularly reflected in the artwork of the early issues. Below is a list of issues and their art teams; if a team (or individual) repeats, only last names will be used:

Covers for the series were rarely by the same artist as the issue itself. The following is a list of who did which covers; as above, full names used above will not be repeated here unless new.

The series largely adopted a two- and four-issue story-arc structure for its final year.

Storylines

Volume two

Creators

The series was re-launched in the fall of 1998 with a new creative staff. An attempt was made to make the artwork sleeker, sexier and more beautiful than the previous series. Like the first series, the second adapted a mini-series approach. The following is a list of the staff; when repeated, only the surname will be used:

Storylines

Special issues

Two special issues were published after Eric Luke's series ended, written by writers who did not contribute to the regular series:

Resurrection Mary

Ghost was revived as part of Dark Horse's Project Black Sky with a new storyline entitled "Resurrection Mary", which launched the third series in Dark Horse Presents #13 cover-dated June 2012. In the three-part serialized story, Elisa's spirit is revived when two investigators from a Ghost Hunters-like TV series, armed with an experimental piece of paranormal technology, investigate a cemetery where a woman in white (called "Resurrection Mary") has been spotted. Eliza appears to have lost her memory; she and the paranormal investigators she befriends cover up her self-defence killing and resolve to solve the mystery of her identity. A notable change for this reboot is that the traditional setting of Arcadia was replaced by Chicago Illinois. The serial concluded with DHP #15, after which Dark Horse published Ghost #0 in September 2012; this reprinted the three DHP chapters as a prelude to a new series, Ghost: In the Smoke and Din.

Volume Three (In the Smoke and Din)

Creators

Dark Horse launched a third series, In the Smoke and Din, consisting of four number published from September 2012. Writer was Kelly Sue DeConnick, with art by Phil Noto (pencils).

Volume Four

Creators

Kelly Sue DeConnick returned in 2013 to write a second series for Dark Horse. The following is a list of the staff; when repeated, only the surname will be used:

Collections

See also

References

  1. ↑ Frankenhoff, Brent (2011). Comics Buyer's Guide Presents: 100 Sexiest Women in Comics. Krause Publications. p. 19. ISBN 1-4402-2988-0.
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