Cover Date: February 1980
On Sale Date: November 1979
Writer: Michael Fleisher
Artist: Don Perlin
Letterer: Clement Robins
Colorist: Benedict Sean
Editor: Roger Stern
Editor-In-Chief: Jim Shooter
Cover Artist: Bob Budiansky
Ghost Rider goes to an empty train yard and transforms back into Johnny Blaze, who decides to sleep through the night inside one of the train cars. He's awakened by two hobos, who are in the process of stealing his wallet. When he attempts to fight back, he's hit over the head with a crowbar and left in the train car, his money and identification stolen. He wakes up the next morning as the train is slowly pulling out, so he jumps off and onto a racing track. He quickly realizes that he can't remember who he is or anything about himself, the blow to his head has given him amnesia. Suddenly, a formula racing car speeds past him, nearly running him over. The driver, a young woman named Gina Langtree of Langtree Motors, questions him about his amnesia but is quickly won over by Johnny's ability to quickly fix the engine of her race car. She gives him the name "Frank Ryder" and takes him back to the Langtree Motors garage on the other side of the racing track, offering him a job as a new pit mechanic. He's quickly disliked by the pit foreman Carl Travis, who thinks that "Frank" is attempting to take Gina for himself. When Carl attempts to hit Johnny from behind, Blaze is able to defend himself. Gina then tells Carl that she'll be going on a date with Johnny that night instead of Carl, during which Gina and Johnny share a passionate kiss. That night, however, when Johnny goes to sleep the Ghost Rider emerges and takes over his body, thinking to himself how odd it is that Blaze's mind is somehow closed to him. The Ghost Rider doesn't really care, though, and he leaves to find the Jackal Gang.
A semi-truck hauling cargo through the desert late at night is hijacked by the ruthless Jackal Gang, who murder the trucker before stealing the truck and all its goods. Their crime is interrupted by the Ghost Rider, who seeks to alleviate his boredom by punishing the crooks. They open fire on him with their rifles to no affect, and choose instead to run. They split up as they ride out into the desert on their dunebuggies, and Ghost Rider gives chase after one of the vehicles. Unfortunately, the dunebuggy crashes into the cliffside before the Ghost Rider can catch them, leaving him unable to learn the gang's hideout location.
Ghost Rider goes to an empty train yard and transforms back into Johnny Blaze, who decides to sleep through the night inside one of the train cars. He's awakened by two hobos, who are in the process of stealing his wallet. When he attempts to fight back, he's hit over the head with a crowbar and left in the train car, his money and identification stolen. He wakes up the next morning as the train is slowly pulling out, so he jumps off and onto a racing track. He quickly realizes that he can't remember who he is or anything about himself, the blow to his head has given him amnesia. Suddenly, a formula racing car speeds past him, nearly running him over. The driver, a young woman named Gina Langtree of Langtree Motors, questions him about his amnesia but is quickly won over by Johnny's ability to quickly fix the engine of her race car. She gives him the name "Frank Ryder" and takes him back to the Langtree Motors garage on the other side of the racing track, offering him a job as a new pit mechanic. He's quickly disliked by the pit foreman Carl Travis, who thinks that "Frank" is attempting to take Gina for himself. When Carl attempts to hit Johnny from behind, Blaze is able to defend himself. Gina then tells Carl that she'll be going on a date with Johnny that night instead of Carl, during which Gina and Johnny share a passionate kiss. That night, however, when Johnny goes to sleep the Ghost Rider emerges and takes over his body, thinking to himself how odd it is that Blaze's mind is somehow closed to him. The Ghost Rider doesn't really care, though, and he leaves to find the Jackal Gang.
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| Laurel and Hardy fell on hard times. |
THE ROADMAP
Ghost Rider last appeared in Marvel Team-Up (1972) # 91.
CHAIN REACTION
To read my review of Ghost Rider (1973) # 41 see my book Wheels On Fire: An Unofficial Guide to Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider: 1972-1983!
To read my review of Ghost Rider (1973) # 41 see my book Wheels On Fire: An Unofficial Guide to Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider: 1972-1983!
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| The first inclination of the two being separate beings. |
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