Der Geisterreiter

In the early 1990s, German publisher Bastei Verlag launched Der Geisterreiter, a short-lived four-issue series that brought a supernatural Western anti-hero to the newsstands. The title translates to "The Ghost Rider," and the series is most closely associated with the creative team that crafted its grim, atmospheric tales of a spectral cowboy riding through a haunted American frontier. Though its run was brief, Der Geisterreiter stands as a distinctive example of Bastei's willingness to blend genre tropes—Western, horror, and the supernatural—into a compact, cult-favorite comic for German readers.