>>373900Maybe they could mine the old comics for plot ideas and string something together that way. I barely know anything about Ghost Rider and don't know how good the writing was. Even if it wasn't very good, talented writers could still take elements from the old comics and come up with something true to the old spirit.
I was thinking it would've been neat if he'd made appearances in something like Spider-Man: The Animated Series the way other Marvel characters did, but now that I think about it that might have been crossing a line for a lot of people. That show already was sort of bowdlerized during its production (they didn't even allow use of the word "sinister"), and I think Ghost Rider's subject matter would have riled up a decent amount of parents at that point. I had this demon action figure as a kid that was based on a Ghost Rider character, and I remember even being surprised my mom let me play with it given the type of household I grew up in. She might've bought it for me not knowing what it was, but I think back then there was still a decent amount of overly religious parents who thought their kids shouldn't be exposed to anything like that. A lot of them were good-hearted people who meant well like my mom, but it was still ignorant and paranoid.
It just sucks that something more wasn't done with the property when there was still a chance for something interesting to come out of it. It could have been much cooler than the usual capeshit. Even as a kid who enjoyed superhero-based media, I never really considered them cool. The Punisher or Wolverine, I guess, but there weren't very many others like that.