GHOST RIDER #44B

Variants & other printings

GHOST RIDER #44B Variant
Volume 1 · 1973-1983
Published
May 1980
Cover price
$0.40 USD
Edition
NEWSSTAND EDITION
Era
Bronze
UPC
0714860290005
Key issue
No

Creators

Writer
Michael Fleisher
Penciler
Carmine Infantino
Inker
Jack Abel, Tom Sutton
Letterer
Clem Robins
Cover artist
Bob Budiansky
Editor
Dennis O'Neil, Jim Shooter

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Synopsis

Cloak Of Crimson - Soul Of Dust! Just as the Ghost Rider spirit is about to impale Johnny with a wooden fence post, the police arrive prompting the Ghost Rider to escape, and Johnny is arrested. The Crimson Mage, watching over the events, reflects back on when he found his crystal ball in the 11th century that prolonged his life and made him a great wizard, and how in recent times its powers are fading. The Mage hopes that once the Ghost Rider spirit is weak enough, he will be able to take control of it and continue to live indefinitely. Johnny manages to break out of his jail cell and tracks down the Crimson Mage, in a fight he smashes the Mage's crystal ball causing the Mage to die and rapidly decompose. Commandeering a motorcycle, Blaze then tricks the Ghost Rider spirit to follow him back to the pentagram that split them apart and forces them to collide with each other on the Pentagram, merging them together once more. Whole again, the Ghost Rider then creates a hellfire bike and speeds off into the sunset.