After graduating from Harvard, Brick Reese is drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam. There, he's wounded with a bullet to the base of the skull. Since the wound is inoperable, Brick grants doctors permission to try the experimental drug Q-47 on him. The doctors say, "We don't know what kind of side-effects this might have." After a month of daily shots, the slug dissolves and Brick gains tremendous strength. However, since his powers are only intermittent, he puts them from his mind, returns home, and takes a job with the Los Angeles law firm of Williams and Williams.
Only when rock singer/client Julie Storm is abducted does he soup-up his motorcycle, design a costume and put his occasionally heightened muscles to work as '''Hell-Rider'''.

Hell-Rider has a black belt in karate to fall back on when his muscles fail. His Harley sportster motorcycle is equipped with a flame-thrower under the headlights, rocket boosters for a nearly vertical ascent, napalm tanks and a jet which throws out an oil slick from the front.

He teamed up with Butterfly on more than one occasion.

*Hell-Rider #1-2

*Skywald did not include a [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EjmXEcptPSM/TX8Zu7zsvSI/AAAAAAAAFJg/zxEOCEwCNCc/s1600/03.jpg proper copyright notice] on its issues of "Hell-Rider" (it did not consist of the word "copyright"/the symbol for copyright followed by the year of publication and the name of the copyright holders) and thus, because of [http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Improper_Copyright_Notice_Characters copyright law at the time], became public domain upon release.
*There were only two issues of Hell-Rider. A third was completed but, never published.
*The "Hell-Rider" issues were mature-audience magazines not covered by comic books' Comics Code Authority.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Rider Wikipedia]
*[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/h/hellrider.htm International Hero]
*[http://my-retrospace.blogspot.ca/2010/04/retrospace-approved-hell-rider.html My Retrospace]
*[http://heroheroinehistory.blogspot.ca/2012/09/reading-room-hell-rider-night-of-ripper_19.html Hero Heroine History]
*[http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/evidence/EV19_hellrider.html Stomp Tokyo]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hell-rider/4005-37665/ Comicvine]
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