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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published August 1972
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Origin of the Ghost Rider"

Characters Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]
Genre Superhero; Occult
Pencils Mike Ploog
Inks Mike Ploog
Letters John Costanza?
Reprinted in Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (February 1975)

22 page Ghost Rider story "Origin of the Ghost Rider"

Characters Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze] (intro; origin); Barton Blaze (intro; dies); Crash Simpson (intro; dies); Mrs. Simpson (intro; dies); Roxanne Simpson (intro); VILLAIN: Satan [Mephisto]
Synopsis To save the life of his mentor and the man who has become like a father to him, Johnny Blaze makes a deal with the devil and is transformed into the spirit of vengeance, Ghost Rider.
Genre Superhero; Occult
Script Roy Thomas; Gary Friedrich
Pencils Mike Ploog
Inks Mike Ploog
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (February 1975) [18 pages]; in Original Ghost Rider, The (Marvel, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992); in Essential Ghost Rider (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (September 2005); in Ghost Rider: Highway to Hell (Marvel, 1992 series) #[nn]