Sure it's a rerun, but it's got a Frazetta cover.

I'm still finishing up a post on the obscure and convoluted history of the intellectual property behind the eagerly anticipated Coyote vs. Acme (really hoping that this one knocks it out of the park). A story that no one outside of a couple of particularly obscure fan sites has noticed. In the meantime, I thought I'd set the stage by revisiting one of my favorite cases of cartoon, or in this case comic book, characters being, not to put too fine a point on it, stolen and repackaged to considerably greater success. The first post is from our long-dormant sister site Mippyville. The next two from the blog a few years ago. Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Ghost Rider -- the character Stan Lee stole twice Stan Lee's claims in the Sixties that he didn't read other comic books were a lot like Milton Berle's claims that he didn't listen to other comics' material. Lee had spent two decades in a closely-knit industry jumping on trends and borrowing ideas, starting with DC and EC derived books and…