Line #6 Trivia/GhostRider


1	!!The comic
2	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The entire original Ghost Rider series was reprinted in full in the black and white Essential line, but outside of a reprint mini that reprinted the last 14 issues (#68-81) and a short lived reprint book that reprinted Ghost Rider #1-12 and the Marvel Spotlight issues that introduced Ghost Rider), the series has never been reprinted in color. Further, the 90s Ghost Rider series has only received three TPBs (two collecting #1-20 and a third volume collecting the Rise of the Midnight Sun crossover, Spirits of Vengeance #1-7 and Web of Spider-Man crossover issues) out of 94 issues and several annuals. Meanwhile the Ghost Rider stories from Marvel Comics Presents that ran concurrent starting with #10 of the 90s series, have never been reprinted period.
3	* MissingEpisode:
4	** #94 of the original series. Due to Marvel being in dire financial straits in the mid-90s, Ghost Rider was canceled with issue #93 and the last issue placed in storage and lost for over a decade.
5	** Another example was the planned resolution to the 70s era story where Johnny Blaze met a guy who looked an awful lot like Jesus Christ. The original script for the finale for the storyline (which was intended to end the series) was that the man WAS Jesus and by becoming a born again Christian, Blaze would be cured of his curse. Editorial however decided to keep the series going and Tony Isabella's story rejected and replaced with the the stranger turning out to be a demon disguise as someone who looked like Jesus by coincidence.
6	** There was an inventory story that was written in the early 80s before the book got canceled involving Ketch stumbling upon devil worshippers lead by a female who claimed dominion over flame as a result. The story was never published as part of the original run, but ultimately saw the light of day in the early 90s in Marvel Super Heroes Quarterly #10 (and placed in the Essential Showcase TPB between #65-66).
7	* PopCultureUrbanLegends: It was reported in the late 00s that the lack of color reprints of Ghost Rider was due to the rise of an unstated editor at Marvel, who was a Born Again Christian and who had vowed never to allow the 70s Blaze series to be reprinted, due to the early issues featuring Satan and references to Satanism/devil worship.
8	* ReferencedBy:
9	** The Hell Biker, one of the Fiends in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', is a very obvious {{Expy}} of Ghost Rider, complete with the flaming wheels motorcycle.
10	** Mukuro Enjo, a minor antagonist in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' is a D-Wheeler with a Harley Davidson-like bike painted with flames and a skull head. The same theme goes for his clothes, and the first card he summons is "Burning Skull".
11	** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Brother's Little Helper", Bart hijacks a tanks and drives it through Springfield. Comic Book Guy, watching the destruction, says "This looks like a job for ComicBook/GreenLantern, [[Characters/FantasticFourSupportingCharacters Thundra]], or possibly Ghost Rider.". When Otto asks "What about ComicBook/{{Superman}}?", Comic Book Guy rolls his eyes and replies "Oh, please...".
12	* ShrugOfGod: Howard Mackie's general response for who the hell the Ghost Rider bonded to Danny Ketch was supposed to be. Mackie had no real intention to reveal the identity and ended up further mudding the waters when his replacement (Ivan Valez) did.
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
14	** After Alejandra was deformed by hellfire and had her Ghost Rider powers given to Johnny Blaze at the end of her series, she was meant to undergo a FaceHeelTurn. Rob Williams says that she's explicitly a villain now on the last page of the comic. Instead, she would wind up in comic book limbo and then return as TheAtoner in ''Absolute Carnage'' in 2019, where she was killed.
15	** Creator/GregWeisman stated he had interest in creating an animated series for Ghost Rider. (They tried a BackdoorPilot for this idea in his appearance in the Creator/{{UPN}} cartoon of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996'', but that didn't pan out; this also forced him to be cut from appearing in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', as Creator/FoxKids didn't want to promote a series on another network.

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