Cover Date: January 1980
On Sale Date: October 1979
Writer: Michael Fleisher
Artist: Don Perlin
Letterer: Diana Albers
Colorist: Bob Sharen
Editor: Roger Stern
Editor In Chief: Jim Shooter
Cover Artist: Bob Budiansky
After a night out in the middle of nowhere, the Ghost Rider relinquishes the body back to Johnny Blaze, who promptly gets hit by a car driven by a drunk. An old man and his daughter watch the event happen from their house, rescuing the dazed biker moments later. John recognizes the man as Dr. Thurgood Vance, a scientist adamantly against nuclear power. He shows John a suit he built that's powered by nuclear energy, used to provide an example of how dangerous radiation can be. At that moment, the a group of mobsters come in and take Thurgood ,his daughter, and the suit away, leaving Blaze behind.
The mobsters force Thurgood to rob a bank with the suit, but the goons are thwarted by the Ghost Rider. Thurgood steals the money anyway, decided to use it to fund his crusade against nuclear power. He tells his daughter that he's going to blow up the local nuclear power plant as an example of his cause, not caring of the large death toll he'll cause. As he sets the controls for a meltdown, his daughter comes up behind him. Thinking her to be a threat, he accidentally shoots and kills her.
Prepared to cause the meltdown by remote control, Thurgood watches from a helicopter above the plant. The Ghost Rider forms his hellfire cycle and rides up the side of the cooling tower, colliding directly with the helicopter. The copter crashes to the ground in a fiery heap, and moments later an unharmed Ghost Rider emerges and rides away.
The mobsters force Thurgood to rob a bank with the suit, but the goons are thwarted by the Ghost Rider. Thurgood steals the money anyway, decided to use it to fund his crusade against nuclear power. He tells his daughter that he's going to blow up the local nuclear power plant as an example of his cause, not caring of the large death toll he'll cause. As he sets the controls for a meltdown, his daughter comes up behind him. Thinking her to be a threat, he accidentally shoots and kills her.
Prepared to cause the meltdown by remote control, Thurgood watches from a helicopter above the plant. The Ghost Rider forms his hellfire cycle and rides up the side of the cooling tower, colliding directly with the helicopter. The copter crashes to the ground in a fiery heap, and moments later an unharmed Ghost Rider emerges and rides away.
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| Great look of horror on Johnny's face there. |
THE ROADMAP
Ghost Rider appears next in Marvel Team-Up (1972) # 91.
CHAIN REACTION
To read my review of Ghost Rider (1973) # 40 see my book Wheels On Fire: An Unofficial Guide to Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider: 1972-1983!
To read my review of Ghost Rider (1973) # 40 see my book Wheels On Fire: An Unofficial Guide to Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider: 1972-1983!
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