![]() Naomi allowed the Caretaker to place Dan and Barbara in the care of a widow named Francis Ketch who lived in Cypress Hills. ![]() Caretaker offered to help safeguard Naomi’s children,which she agreed to, and faked her own death, going into hiding while she sought out a way to lift the family curse of the Ghost Rider. The ancient being known as Caretaker approached Naomi and told her that both her eldest Johnny and her youngest Danny would both become a Ghost Rider. Mayor Story Arcs Birth of the New Ghost Rider The Spirit of Vengeance Character Creationĭanny Ketch made his first appearance in "Ghost Rider" volume 2, #1 in May 1990 and was created by Howard Mackie and Javier Saltares. Noble would come forth to every first child in each new Kale generation, allowing them to be transformed into the Ghost Rider. Unknown to Blaze family, Naomi was the descendant of Noble Kale Noble was cursed by Mephisto in the 18th century to exist in an empty void. Dan was the youngest of the Blaze children, which included his brother Johnny, and sister Barbara. If you occasionally feel that subtlety isn’t everything and yearn for a vicarious dose of simple wickedness-whomping, this might well be the book for you, and if it is, there’s a Volume 2.Dan Ketch was born in the Quentin Carnival where his parents, Naomi Kale and Barton Blaze, shared top billing with their good friend Craig “Crash” Simpson in their motorcycle stunt act. Despite being markedly short on plot and utterly devoid of humour, this does deliver the maximum amount of uncomplicated thrills, spills and chills for action-starved fight fans. Psionic monsters, urban horrors and the Punisher feature in nine further tales of demonic excess producing a prodigious body count. Even deadlier is a mystic “Penance Stare” which subjects the guilty to unimaginable psychic pain and guilt. He’s inexplicably transformed into a spectral horror, burning with fury and indignation – a Spirit of Vengeance hungry to assuage the pain of innocent blood spilled with inhuman vitality, toting an infinitely adaptable bike chain. The ninjas, having caught the girl who stole the briefcase, are closing in on the Ketch kids when Danny, his hands soaked in his sister’s blood, touches the glowing bike symbol. ![]() Closer inspection reveals them to be an arcane design on the gas-cap of an abandoned motorbike. In an adjacent junkyard Danny is helplessly watching Barb bleed out when his attention is caught by a glowing pair of eyes. The ninjas and their macabre leader Deathwatch are the victors of the fire-fight and are soon hunting for their hard-won prize and the witnesses. ![]() Discovered, the siblings flee but Barb is hit by an arrow, whilst the case itself is snatched by a juvenile gang who plague the wooded necropolis. Unfortunately they stumble into a bloody criminal confrontation between ninjas and gangsters over a mysterious briefcase. So how did Danny Ketch become Ghost Rider? ‘Life’s Blood’ sees young Danny and his photographer sister Barbara looking for Houdini’s tomb in the vast Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn on the eve of Halloween. Theirs was a looser than usual artistic arrangement, not so easily breaking down into penciller and inker roles, and they quickly secured the new Ghost Rider status as one of the hottest hits of the period. In 1990 it was the turn of a tragic boy named Danny Ketch to assume the role of hosting the demon Zarathos.įrom that dubious period of fashionably “Grim ‘n’ Gritty” super-heroics comes this slight, but engagingly fast-paced horror-hero re-imagining courtesy of writer Howard Mackie, and artists Javier Saltares and Mark Texeira. During a downturn in sales of superhero comics in the early 1970s Marvel shifted focus from straight costumed crusaders to supernatural and horror characters, among them a certain flaming-skulled vigilante dubbed the Ghost Rider. ![]()
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