The Original Ghost Rider Rides Again #1 [Direct]

(July 1991)

Recruit Your Own Team of Special Forces. (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

G.I. Joe / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Curse of Jonathan Blaze! (Table of Contents: 2)

Ghost Rider / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Roger Stern (credited)

Pencils

Bob Budiansky (credited)

Inks

Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein)

Colors

George Roussos (credited)

Letters

Diana Albers (credited)

Editing

Tom DeFalco (credited) (original editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (original editor-in-chief)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The rains of spring have come!

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze] (origin retold, also flashback); Crash Simpson (flashback); Mona Simpson (flashback, death) (Crash Simpson's wife and Rocky's mother); Roxanne Simpson (flashback); phony priest (first appearance, villain); Mephisto (flashback, villain)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Reprints

• from Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1973 series) #68 (May 1982)

Indexer Notes

Johny Blaze relates his story as the Ghost Rider to a phony priest.

Marvel Annuals The Von Strucker Gambit Summer 1991 (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Sleepwalker (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Sleepwalker / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Original Ghost Writer Writes Again / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Rob Tokar (credited)

Pencils

Bob Budiansky

Inks

Dave Simons

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hello and welcome to the first issue of The Original Ghost Rider Rides Again.

Indexer Notes

First issue introduction and request for new letters column. Includes black and white cover reprint of next issue.

[Cover - Ghost Rider #69] (Table of Contents: 6)

Ghost Rider / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bob Budiansky (signed as BUDIANSKY)

Inks

Dave Simons (signed as Simons)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Reprints

• from Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1973 series) #69 [Direct] (June 1982)

Personal Demons (Table of Contents: 7)

Ghost Rider / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Roger Stern (credited as Stern)

Pencils

Bob Budiansky (credited as Budiansky)

Inks

Dave Simons (credited as Simons)

Colors

George Roussos (credited as Roussos)

Letters

Diana Albers (credited as Albers)

Editing

Tom DeFalco (credited as DeFalco) (original editor); Jim Shooter (credited as Shooter) (original editor-in-chief)

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Red Fowler; Corky Franklin; Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Ralph Quentin; Cynthia Randolph; Harry Donovan (first appearance, villain); Shirley Watkins (first appearance); Burt (first appearance); Bob Convy (first appearance)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Johnny Blaze now is the headliner for Ralph Quentin and his Quentin Carnival. Reporter Cynthia Randolph wants to check into Johnny Blaze further. Clown Corky Franklin fears the arrival of his son Eliot. Drunken lout Harry Donovan tries to kill Johnny but ends up dealing with the Ghost Rider instead.

Reprints

• from Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1973 series) #69 (June 1982)

Hit 'Em High. (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Laser Invasion / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

It's Here! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Dungeons & Dragons / advertisement / 1 page (report information)