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Gary Friedrich (August 21, 1943, August 29, 2018) was an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos and in the following era, the series The Monster of Frankenstein, as well as for cocreating the supernatural motorcyclist Ghost Rider and the supernatural hero the Son of Satan. Friedrich, no relation to fellow comics writer Mike Friedrich, was the first successful new writer brought into the burgeoning 1960s Marvel after fellow Missourian Roy Thomas.