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The original Ghost Rider was a cowboy in the American Wild West who first appeared in Ghost Rider (1967 series) #1. He battled evil as a gunfighter, while dressed in a luminescent white costume, complete with a mask and the requisite white hat. After the appearance of subsequent Ghost Riders, this character's name was changed to the Phantom Rider. No fewer than five men have worn the Phantom Rider's mask, one of whom is active in the modern day. A cowboy (Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. ... Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ... Categories: Stock characters | Stub ... The Phantom Rider is a fictional character, a cowboy in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

Cover to Ghost Rider (1973 series) #1. Art by Gil Kane.

The second Ghost Rider first appeared in Marvel Spotlight volume 1 #5. John Blaze, a motorcycle stunt performer in a traveling circus, sold his soul to the demon Mephisto to save his brother Barton's life. He was bound with the demon Zarathos, and transformed into a flaming, leather-clad skeleton, and his bike's wheels were cloaked in a sheath of flame. This Ghost Rider's career ended when Zarathos fled Blaze's body in Ghost Rider (1973 series) #81. Cover of Ghost Rider #1, vol. ... Cover of Ghost Rider #1, vol. ... Eli Katz (April 6, 1926–January 31, 2000), who worked under the name Gil Kane, was a comic book illustrator whose career spanned the so-called Golden and Silver Ages of comics. ... Marvel Spotlight is the name of several comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. ... Mephisto (short for Mephistopheles) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

The third, and most prolific, Ghost Rider first appeared in Ghost Rider (1990 series) #1. Daniel Ketch and his sister Barbara were attacked by ninja gangsters. They fled, but Barbara was wounded, so they hid in a garbage dump. Ketch found a motorcycle bearing a mystical sigil; upon touching the sigil he was transformed into the Ghost Rider. This Ghost Rider was nearly identical to the previous, though his costume and bike had undergone a more modernized tailoring. He defeated the gangsters and eventually killed their employer, Deathwatch, but was unable to save Barbara, who died.

It was later revealed that Daniel Ketch and John Blaze were long-lost brothers, and that their family were the inheritors of a mystical curse related to the Spirits of Vengeance. Ketch eventually died, but the Spirit of Vengeance that had been bound to him through the bike's talisman lived on. Still later, Blaze became the Ghost Rider again through unrevealed circumstances, reappearing in Ghost Rider (2001 series) #1.

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Other Spirits of Vengeance

In addition to the Johnny Blaze/Zarathos, and Danny Ketch/Noble Kale versions and the current version which features Johnny, merged with a Ghost Rider who has NOT been confirmed as being Noble Kale (A continuity gaffe makes this impossible as Danny Ketch, who supposedly died in the final issue of volume II of Ghost Rider, reunited with the Ghost Rider after a brief unintended rampage through New York in an issue of a Spider-Man comic. In addition, the Ghost Rider who is merged with Johnny in the 'Hammer Lane' miniseries, kills humans. Something Noble Kale swore he would never do. In addition to THAT, when Volume II of Ghost Rider came to a close, Noble had become king of one of the many versions of Marvel's realms of Hell.), there have been three other notable Spirits of Vengeance: Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ...

• The first is Michael Badilino, a former member of the NYPD. He is one third of an 'Organic Medallion of Power' (A concept established in an earlier story arc during the Dan Ketch/Noble Kale pairing which was never truly explained at all to the satisfaction of Ghost Rider fans.), became Vengeance. a 'Ghost Rider' on steroids. His powers seemed more in line with those of the Zarathos version of Ghost Rider, though he did possess the Penance Stare and his motorcyle also seemed to share characteristics with the version used by Noble Kale. He was characterised by his skull being deep purple (which may have been substituted for black for the sake of aesthetics) and had large fangs protruding from his upper jaw, and large spike protrusions with a backswept curve (which later reversed themselves for his final appearances) on the top of his skull. In his superhuman form, Badilino was called Vengeance, and originally attempted to kill the Ghost Rider, believing him to be Zarathos, who had been a stand in for Kale during the volume one series which featured Johnny Blaze as the host for the Ghost Rider, who had unleashed his Hellfire on Badilino's father. Badilino supposedly sold his soul to Mephisto in order to gain power enough to kill Zarathos with it. Mephisto at this time was supposedly under the impression that the modern Ghost Rider was in fact Zarathos, returned from the mystical object called the soul Crystal. Vengeance later became the ally of the Ghost Rider and Johnny Blaze who had followed a similar path when Noble Kale first emerged into the modern day Marvel Universe, though Johnny did not again turn to Mephisto in his quest to kill Ghost Rider. Vengeance would also take on the role of the Ghost Rider and even semi-seriously referred to himself by the name when confronted by Spider-Man shortly after the apparent death of the Ghost Rider in battle with Zarathos and his acolytes who called themselves The Fallen. (This was during the Siege of Darkness' storyline, which also involved the concept of the organic 'medallion of Power'. The Ghost Rider would return to life in a brief panel of issue 49, and was officially resurrected in issue 50.) Vengeance died through suicide after becoming deranged. He had fixated on Hellgate, whom he had crossed paths with over the years. Veangeance was confronted by the Ghost Rider during his rampaging attempts to find and kill Hellgate, and was subjected to the Penance Stare. This only drove Vengeance further insane, and promptly turned his own Penance Stare on the Ghost Rider, which unlocked some, but not all, of the Ghost Rider's long hidden memories. Vengeance apparently killed himself, along with Hellgate and several of his minions, by triggering a massive explosion through his Hellfire, which is the source of the mystical flames which encompass the bones of both Vengeance and Ghost Rider. A former friend of Badilino's from the force who had been part of an elite task force intended to take down the Ghost Rider said immediately after the explosion "I didn't know a Spirit of Vengeance could go atomic like that." The Ghost Rider softly replied to him that he hadn't known either. Vengeance would reappear in the last four issue of Ghost Rider Volume II involved in Blackheart's plans to kill Noble Kale once and for all. Vengeance aided the Ghost Rider in the ensuing battle, and Blackheart was destroyed.

• The second is a man named Zero Cochrane, who in the possibly alternate timeline of the Marvel 2099 titles became a mechanized Ghost Rider, who was a cybernetic take on the Spirit of Vengeance. This version of the Ghost Rider was an experiment in attempting to translate the characters people were familiar with into all new versions that would be considered the possible future variations of current Marvel heroes. He was among unique company in that he was joined by Spider-Man 2099, the Punisher 2099, the Hulk 2099, and the X-Men of 2099. he would also share the 2099 'timeline' with Doctor Doom, somehow transported into the far flung future, temporal copies of the Fantastic Four, and a completely new character called Ravage 2099. Following Doom's coup of America, a Daredevil and Captain America were produced in 2099 Unlimited, but did not last long. a woman calling herself Strange was apparently inteded as the future take on Dr. Strange. She also did not stick around long. The Ghost Rider of 2099 appeared to drop out of existence during the consolidation of the 2099 books into a single title called 2099 World of Tomorrow. This Ghost Rider had nothing truly of the supernatural about him. He also encountered a futuristic counterpoint to Michael Badilino's alter ego of Vengeance before his series came to a close.

• The third Ghost Rider actually referred to himself simply as the Spirit of Vengeance, however he, unlike Zero, DID look like a futuristic version of the Noble Kale version of Ghost Rider, and also unlike Zero, derived his powers from the supernatural, rather than having his mind placed digitally into a massive mechanical body. The Spirit of Vengeance appeared first in the pages of Guardians of the Galaxy, which is set in an alternate furture of the Marvel Universe and which apparently occurs in the 31st century. He would then join a variant group calling themselves the Galactic Guardians. This Ghost Rider was a religious Zealot of sorts, and was very embittered towards a church which was proclaiming it would produce it's 'god' in the flesh. Whether or not he overcame this bitterness when that being, dubbed 'the Protege' was destroyed by a Celestial called Scathan the Approver is unknown.

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Other uses

The phrases Negative Ghostrider or Affirmative Ghostrider are American colloquial ways of saying "no" or "yes", quoting the 1986 film Top Gun [1]. The Ghostriders were the main character's squadron, as well as a real F-14 Tomcat squadron. In the 1990s the PBS childrens show Ghostwriter made a pun out of the quote, saying instead "Negative Ghostwriter". A colloquialism is an informal expression, that is, an expression not used in formal speech or writing. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Top Gun is a 1986 American movie starring Tom Cruise. ... Sailors prepare an F-14 Tomcat for flight on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Ghostwriter, television series co-produced by what was then the Childrens Television Workshop and the BBC that aired on PBS in the United States from October 1992 to February 1995 and as reruns for some time after. ...

Bibliography of Ghost Rider titles

Comic book series

• Ghost Rider #1-7 (February 1967 - October 1967; featuring Western hero)
• Marvel Spotlight (1971 series) #5-11 (August, 1972 – August, 1973)
• Ghost Rider #1-81 (June 1973 - October 1983)
• Ghost Rider #1-93 (May 1990 - February 1998)
• Original Ghost Rider Rides Again #1-7 (July, 1991 - January, 1992; reprints Ghost Rider (1973 series) #68-81)
• The Original Ghost Rider #1-20 (July 1992 - February 1994; reprints Marvel Spotlight (1971 series) #5-12, Ghost Rider (1973 series) #1-9, 11, 12; Marvel Two-In-One #8)
• Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance, #1-23 (August 1992 - June 1994)
• Ghost Rider Annual #1-2 (1993 - 1994)
• Blaze: Legacy of Blood #1-4 (December, 1993 – March, 1994; featuring Johnny Blaze)
• Blaze #1-12 (August, 1994 – July, 1995)
• Ghost Rider 2099 #1-25 (May, 1994 – May, 1996)
• Ghost Rider (2001 series) #1-6 (August 2001 - January 2002)

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Oneshot titles

• Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness (December, 1991)
• Ghost Rider/Captain America: Fear (October, 1992)
• Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Dark Design (December 1994)
• Ghost Rider: Crossroads (November 1995)

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Publisher crossovers

• Speed Demon with DC Comics (April, 1996; features a composite of Ghost Rider and the Flash)
• Cyblade/Ghost Rider with Image Comics (January, 2001)
• Ghost Rider/Ballistic with Image Comics (February, 2002)

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Trade paperbacks

• Ghost Rider/Cable: Servants of the Dead (1992; reprints Marvel Comics Presents #90-97)
• Ghost Rider: The Hammer Lane (2002; reprints Ghost Rider (2001 series) #1-6)

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Other Media

A teaser poster for the Ghost Rider Movie.
Posted at Comic-Con 2005.

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There is also a song called "Ghost Rider" written by the New York punk/electronic band Suicide (made up of Alan Vega and Martin Rev) from their self-titled 1977 album. While it may or may not necessarily be directly inspired by the comic book character, many of the lyrics could be interpreted as such, including "Riding through your town with his head on fire" and repeated used of the words "motorcycle hero." The song has also been covered multiple times by bands such as the Rollins Band. Rollins Band are rock music group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins. ...

Ghost Rider in the Fantastic Four animated series

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External links

• Marvel Directory - *Ghost Rider
• IMDB listing
• Ghost Rider Network - Linking the comics, universe, and movie for convenience