Cover Date: March 1982
On Sale Date: December 1981
Writer: Michael Fleisher
Artist: Tom Sutton
Colorist: George Roussos
Letterer: Diana Albers
Editor: Tom DeFalco
Editor in Chief: Jim Shooter
Cover Artist: Bob Layton
While shopping at a small-town antique shop, the Quentin Carnival’s wheelchair-bound psychic, Madam Olga, purchases an ornate candle. After Johnny Blaze and Red Fowler drive her back to the carnival, she lights the candle during one of her seances, which releases a ghostly woman. After the crowd flees in fear, the ghost introduces herself as Clothilde, a witch who had been sentenced to death centuries ago and survived by sending her soul into a nearby candle. Clothilde offers to grant favors to Olga for freeing her from the candle and rushes out of the tent to find the old woman a meal. Johnny Blaze sees the wind spirit rushing past and pursues it on his motorcycle to a nearby steakhouse, where it blows inside and exits with a feast of food. Clothilde attacks Blaze, sensing his supernatural power, and he transforms into the Ghost Rider as she flings him through the air. Clothilde returns to Olga and retreats back into the candle, promising to return the next night. Johnny goes to Olga to ask about the wind witch, but she nervously denies knowing anything about it.
The next night, Olga lights the candle and Clothilde returns, using her wind power to make Olga walk again. Johnny goes to Olga’s tent and finds her inside a mystical circle, finishing a spell to free Clothilde from the candle. Clothilde reveals that she was put to death for practicing black magic and wishes only to subjugate and destroy the mortal realm. The Ghost Rider appears and creates his flame cycle as he is swept into the sky above the carnival in a fierce battle with Clothilde. Olga, paralyzed once again and realizing how she had been tricked, destroys the mystic circle, which weakens Clothilde enough to be destroyed by the Ghost Rider’s hellfire.
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| How fashion forward of you, GR! |
CHAIN REACTION
To read my review of Ghost Rider (1973) # 66 see my book Wheels On Fire: An Unofficial Guide to Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider: 1972-1983!
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