When I was a kid, these characters made up my favorite team of heroes and though the storylines may not quite hold up in this day and age, they are still worth digging into if you get the chance and want to read a story about Ghost Rider at the very height of his popularity. The Midnight Sons storyline went for quite some time, covering years of arcs that saw the team fighting various threats as well as having a consistently changing roster when certain characters would die. Trust me that when I say successful, I mean it as these books were routinely beating the X-Men in terms of sales which, at the time, was almost unprecedented for Marvel. This was the most prominent, and financially successful, supernatural team of heroes that Marvel had seen. This storyline brought together both of the Ghost Riders (Johnny and Danny), Blade, Doctor Strange, Morbius the Living Vampire and many others to fight Lilith, the queen of the demons, and her children. prev nextĭuring the 90's run of the Danny Ketch Ghost Rider saga, a story that created an epic team in the form of the Midnight Sons was formulated. Ketch's run as the Ghost Rider, even though Danny hasn't appeared much in outside media, is still the most iconic.
DANNY KETCH GHOST RIDER SERIES
This initial series also gave us the most noteworthy of the Ghost Rider's powers in the Penance Stare, which caused its victims to relive their evil deeds a thousand times over.
Ketch's Ghost Rider was also the appearance that was used in most media, movies and cartoons alike.
Barbara was unfortunately killed but Danny managed to become the Ghost Rider, or a new interpretation of the character that wasn't quite the same as Blaze's.ĭanny Ketch's initial adventures as the Ghost Rider introduced villains that would make up the regular stable of the character's rogues gallery: the vampire Blackout, Deathwatch, Madcap, and Lilith to name a few. On a trip to a nearby cemetery, Danny and his sister, Barbara, encountered the ninjas of Deathwatch, a super powered mobster. While Johnny Blaze had a long career as the Ghost Rider, and would eventually return to it, in the 1990's, he was replaced for a younger model.ĭanny Ketch would take up the mantle of the Ghost Rider accidentally, not by selling his soul to the devil, but rather by simply touching a motorcycle he wasn't supposed to. This first issue gives you a nice rundown of who Blaze is, what the Ghost Rider can do, and the trappings of this supernatural lore. Originally, Blaze would become the Ghost Rider simply when night fell, which was actually similar to when Bruce Banner would become the Hulk, but this was later changed to have Ghost Rider appear whenever Blaze wanted, or sometimes didn't. Now harboring the soul of the demon Zarathos, Blaze used his abilities to fight evil rather than become a pawn for the devil. Johnny jumped at the chance and just like that, Roxanne's father was cured, but like so many other deals with the devil, things did not go well.Ĭrash almost immediately died in a stunt accident, but the deal was still in place.īlaze feared for his soul but managed to keep it by instead becoming the Spirit of Vengeance, the Ghost Rider. Little did he know, Mephisto, one of Marvel's many devils, appeared before Blaze and promised to save Crash for a price. The first appearance of the Ghost Rider, Marvel Spotlight introduced readers to Johnny Blaze, a daredevil on a motorcycle, who spent his time with his girlfriend, Roxanne, and her father trying to make enough money to get by with death defying tricks.įrom comic book creators Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich, and Mike Ploog, Blaze found himself in a tricky situation of trying to save Roxanne's father from cancer.
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