Cover Date: October 1981
On Sale Date: July 1981
Writer: Michael Fleisher
Artist: Alan Kupperberg
Inker: Sal Trapani
Colorist: Rob Carosella
Letterer: Diana Albers
Editor: David Kraft
Editor in Chief: Jim Shooter
Cover Artist: Bob Budiansky
On a hot summer day, Johnny Blaze stops in a small Indiana town to drink from a water hose and cool off his engine. This upsets some locals who quickly attack Blaze, beating on him until he turns into the Ghost Rider to save himself. After the fight, two older local gentlemen tell Johnny that the town’s water supply has dried up and the only available water is an underground spring that’s too deep to tap into. Johnny realizes that he knows someone that can help the town and rides several hours back to Chicago, where the Water Wizard is being held in a mental hospital after being fried with hellfire. When the hospital director is unwilling to release the Water Wizard into Blaze’s custody, he transforms into the Ghost Rider and kidnaps the villain. As he leaves, he passes Sheik Hurani, who has traveled from Saudi Arabia to use the Water Wizard against his enemy, the Arabian Knight.
Later, the Ghost Rider arrives back in Indiana with the Water Wizard, and Blaze explains the problem. With the townsfolk assembled, the Water Wizard starts to tap into the spring, but is interrupted by Hurani and his gunmen. Johnny turns into the Ghost Rider and defeats the gunmen, but is surprise attacked by a water creature. Ghost Rider quickly destroys the creature and turns back into Blaze, seeing that the town has its water supply once again but that the Water Wizard has escaped with Sheik Hurani. Feeling responsible for the villain’s escape, Johnny ponders on how he’s going to find him when he doesn’t know where he went.
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| Show some dignity, Water Wizard! |
THE ROADMAP
Ghost Rider fought the Water Wizard in Chicago, leaving him on the shore of Lake Michigan with his soul fried by hellfire, in Ghost Rider (1973) # 59.
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