Examples of Ghost Rider in a sentence
In total, Marvel published over 300 comic book stories starring Ghost Rider and reprinted Spotlight 5 five times, including as late as 2005.
Lee agreed to publish the Ghost Rider comic book in the series Marvel Spotlight, a vehicle used to audition new superheroes.
In return, Friedrich agreed to assign his rights in the Ghost Rider characters to Marvel.
By May 1973, Marvel launched a separate Ghost Rider comic book series.
After Spotlight 5, Ghost Rider stories appeared in the next six issues of Marvel Spotlight.
The first Ghost Rider comic was published in Marvel Spotlight, Vol.
Friedrich continued to write Ghost Rider and other superhero stories for Marvel on a freelance basis until approximately 1978.
Hence, a jury could find that a reasonably diligent person would not have known that Marvel was exploiting Ghost Rider, without paying royalties, during the renewal term but before April 4, 2004.
When the comic was originally published in 1972, Marvel explained in a contemporaneous publication that Friedrich had "dreamed the whole thing up." Moreover, Marvel did not register a copyright in Spotlight 5 or Ghost Rider before Friedrich filed this action, even though it had registered nearly all of its other characters and several later Ghost Rider stories.Marvel argues that the copyright notice on Spotlight 5 declared that Marvel was the owner and publicly repudiated Friedrich's claim.
There is a genuine dispute as to whether a reasonably diligent person would have been put on notice by this activity.Marvel points out that its agreement to license a Ghost Rider movie had been highly publicized since 2000 and argues that this implicitly repudiated Friedrich's ownership of the renewal copyright.