Cover Date: April 2022; On Sale Date: February 2022
Writer: Benjamin Percy; Artist: Cory Smith; Letterer: VC's Travis Lanham; Colorist: Bryan Valenza; Editor: Darren Shan; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Kael Ngu
Johnny Blaze sits and has a conversation with his therapist about his recent motorcycle accident and head injury, which occurred several months before. He talks about the nightmares he has when he doesn't drink whiskey before bed and how he should be happy with his life in Hayden's Falls, married to Roxanne and raising his two kids, Craig and Emma. Since fracturing his skull he's experienced waking nightmares, hallucinations of horrific things, but he lies and denies having seen them recently. He walks around the town of Hayden's Falls and encounters numerous unexplained things that people tell him are a result of his head injury. Meanwhile, at FBI Headquarters, Agents Whilmer and Talia Warroad are given a discretionary fund to explore rising cases of the supernatural across the country.
While Blaze spends time with his son and later his father-in-law, Crash Simpson, a stranger comes to Hayden's Falls and senses a dark evil lurking beneath the surface. While the town starts to fall apart around him, Johnny continues to see everyone he knows as monstrous creatures, including his own family. He's found by the stranger, a necromancer named Zeb who was sent by a group of magicians to locate Blaze. He tells Johnny that his family and the town aren't real and unlocks his memory along with the power of the Spirit of Vengeance. Zeb turns into a crow and flies away while Johnny transforms into the Ghost Rider and destroys all the demons, including the ones masquerading as his family, out of revenge for keeping him trapped. Realizing that he had been imprisoned by someone, the Ghost Rider creates his motorcycle and rides out of Hayden's Falls, on the hunt for answers.