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SAL BUSCEMA MIKE ESPOSITO 4 a Cue a ey I ieee ere he iM THE ARIZONA DESERT: A SOLITARY CYCLIST RACES TOWARD ea ete ce ate a eI Meln ea OM A elt Ta A tor aL a Ee Bn ore eae WLUST AHEAO... ANO THE MEANING OF HIS EXISTENCE .., STEVE GERBER WRITER Aerians - (HARE GECRGE ROUSEOS,; Be MLN gaa en) Ft Ie aA GHOST RIPER, AND HE HAS RECENTLY WON HS MOST DESPERATE GATTLE, WKESTED BACK HIG SOUL FROM THe CLUTCHES OF GATAM, NOW HE Aa ale Me oem of) WITH HIS NEWLY RE-EARNED Dat es Ketlerer, | LEN WEIN Coterist ft FeITER fede ae eae ae a ee eae NM Mae Leite Via Ne le VM eet lta ea a ee FOLLOW, AND NOW, ON THE ROAD CEFORE Hits, HE FINDS THE MOST Origa er aati gl ae Pi Pace a en ete MCT IN TIAN 6 GOING INTOA SKIP... / MARVEL 2-IN-ONE, THING AND GHOST RIDER Js,published by MARVEL: COMICS GROUP, OFFICE OF PUBLICATION:575 Madison Averiue, N.Y, N.¥.10022.. Published bi-monthly. Copyright ©) 1974 by Marvel Comics Group. A-Wivision of Cadence industries Corporation. All rights reserved 975 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 16022. Vol. 7, No.8, March, 1975-issue. Price 25¢'per copy in the U.S. and Canada, institutions, in this magazine with any lving or dead’ person or institution ied by Mlaclypsa lil March 2 No. similarity between any intended, and any such TOO AMAZED 70 SPEAK, G.. WATCHES DUINBLY, ONLY IN THE WE MIGHT AS WELL ASI SPRAWLED ON THE TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, AS ONE MIND, 2 THINK. ih THE SAME OF YOU, ..FLAME- OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRIO BISMMOUNTS ANDO = SKULLED ONE! f RACES TO HIS AID. WHAT IS THIS? WHO fy ARE YOU ALL AVGAT, MY ARE YOU THREE ? ‘ ARE YOU A FRIEND? TWAS A FRIGHTENING] ( “Youre CrorHiwG.- Ia DEMON, SENT FALL YOU TOOK! ARE YOU THE CAMELS ~~ TO STRAY US ‘ WHAT GIVES ; FROM OUR HERE? ff aah ba Se . FM AS HUMAN AS YoU... are Oem KINGS2...STAR?..CHILD?... SEEM TO BE, OLD TIMER. on PROPHECY 2... VCE AGAIN, bur Sree YOU TELL ME WeneeeNe i von, BiAze s STRUCK MSE..5 e s T COURSE. fi kives EECHLES: As oy FOLLOW/ CAST YOUR YONDER STAR... SEEKING THE CHILD OF THE PROPHECY. WHY NOT JO/M US ON OUR PILGRIM- BUF E DONT THINK YOUR AGE ? THE MYRRH AND FRANKIN- “SHIPS.OF THE DESERT! CAN CENSE WE BEAR ARE SURELY GIFTS ‘ KEEP UP WITH WHAT I'M ENOUGH FOR FOUR TO GIVE...EVEN RIDING, UNTO TH/S TENDER INFANT / A ANE I'M A MITE TOO (IMPATIENT, 70 LOPE ALONG WITH YOU FELLERS, EVEN ON CHRISTMAS WM SOMETIMES, STRETCH, I EVE, FER CRYIN! OUT THINK WORK IS LOUD! EVEN OW b CHRISTMAS EVEL BEN, PLEASE-- | BE.CAREFUL! THATISA PRECISION #\ INSTRUMENT YOU'RE CARRYING, THE LENS ARRANGEMENT IS EASILY, NEWS FLASH, STRECH: YER SUPER-DUPER TELESCOPE AIN'T THE ONLY THING GETTIN’ UPSET AROUND HERE! i IT'S CHRISTMAS HAVIN' A PARTY LITTLE SOW IS ees FER HIS REED--SUSIE'S DOWNSTAIRS: -YER 1 | BLAST (7; REED, DION'TCHA HEAR & WORD I SAID? YATOLD ME YERSELF--OBSERVATORIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ARE WATCHIN! THAT . SPARKLER! WHY D'YOu HAVE TO? 7 BECAUSE THIS TELESCOPE IS CHRISTMAS EVE... ANEW STAR IN THE HEAVENS... DOESN'T THAT RING ANY . BELLS WITH YOu? YEAH, IT REMINDS ME. THAT 2,000 YEARS AGO AKIO WUZ BORN...WHOID WANT YA, TA SPEND TONIGHT WITH YER FAMILY! BUT REED RICHARDS MAKES NO REPLY HIS FULL ATTENTION [5 THAT STAR GIVES ME “BEN! ALREADY FOCUSED ON THE NEW | | THE CREEPS, | re YGHT IN THE FIRMAMENT. ANO SO, TOO. BUT YOU'RE A GRUMBLING BENJAMIN GRIMM GAWKIN' AT. Back JUST QEFARTS BY ELEVATOR FORTHE BF'S LIVING QUARTERS BELOW. CRIPES, HE uust \ ; - DON'T KNOW WHEN ITALL NIGHT AIN'T. GONNA INTIME/ | TAQUT...L L/ noruine's WRONG, BEN. WE'RE ALL READY TO LIGHT THE TREE, THE LIVING ROOM: UNDER THE MISTLETOE, JOWNNY STORM -- THE HLMAAN TORTCH:-RECENVES A | YULETIDE K/SS FROM MEDUSA, THE INHUMAN WITH THE LINING TRESSES : Li NAMORITA, [| SUB-MARINER, SUPERVISES THE | CHILDREN, YOUNG SRANILIN' RICHARDS AND WUNDARR:: THE REED SEZ TA GO AHEAD WITHOUT “IM, HE'S TOO BUSY STAR-GAZIN:- I DON’T HAVE TO SEE IT TO ENJOY IT, BEN. IT'S LIKE MY SCULPTUR! ING... C PEBL IT I GET A SORT OF TIWGLE EROM THE JOY THE REST OF YOu i ABOUT SOMETHIN YA CAN'T EVEN SEE, EXPERIENCE. * COME ON:.. EVERYONE'S IN THE LIVING ROOM WAITING FOR US. | AND CLOSEST FRIEND. BER) YES, HERE IN THE BAXTER ] BUILOING, AS IN HOMES ALL ACROSS THE NATION; (1S JUSTA TYPICAL AMERICAN CHRISTMAS. a TH: THAT'S THE WEIRDEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. OH, WELL.,..IF THATS THE WAY HE WANTS IT...LETISGET THIS. SHOW ON THE ZOAD, NITA, yHIT THE LIGHTS! ees STUFE WHAT'S four THS HANDY=DANDY TRANSMITTER } HAW! I OON'T BELIEVE IT/S-STRECHO MUST'A GOT SO INTA DESIGNIN! THE ELECTRONICS FER THE TREE LIGHTS 3 AAW HE C-COULON'T: STOP--’TIL EVIRY BLAMED &* BRANCH WUZ WIRED uP!! REED DECORATED THE TREE MUMSELE THIS YEAR...SAID IT WAS A SURPRISE « THAT ALL I HAD TO POWAS... 4 + WARM UP THIS HEAT- ACTIVATED DEVICE... POINT IT AT THE TREE wn AND THE TREE CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE “S-SURE, SURE) BEN GASPS BETWEEN GUFFAWS. "JUST GIMME ABOUT THREE DAYS TA STOP LAUGHIN!., AW! Pie BE GOOD AS MEW!" ; seas Eoritarioya MLES WEST OF THE BIG ae GHOST RIDER PLOWS THRU THE DESERT SANPS AND UPA ROCKY SLOPE TOWARD A GOAL YET UNKNOWN, A MIDOLE-EASTERN CITY, RIGHT OUT OF S/BLICAL TIMES. AND THERE CAN'T BE MUCH DOUBTAS TO i WHICH CITY, CAN SO MUCH FOR THE MIRAGE THEORY. IT's | MEAL--EVERY DETAIL! THEY'RE NOT SEMITIC TYPES AT i) WHOA, J.B.-- ALL, THEY ONE THING g tSN'T RIGHT in a PEOPLE- STAR SEEMS TO POINT TO A SPOT JUST OVER THIS RIDGE, BETTER START SLOWING -- I. SHOULD'VE EXPECTED THIS, MAYBE i’ WOULDIVE IF I'D BEUEVED THOSE THREE CAMEL k JOCKEYS! EITHER THAT, OR I DROVE THRU A (NATING OUT-OF Wt somesony, |} [TAekRICIMATING Ou SOMEHOW...IS Le MAKING IT HAPPEN | ALL OVER AGAIN. WHICH - Ep EVER... ff ONLY ONE WAY TO OKAY, SO THERE'S 20 MORE TO THIS THAN $ MEETS THE BYE --AS E) (FE THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH TO WORRY R ABOUT ALREADY, | THE LOCAL | THE FACE OF THE GLASSY-EVED INN. MAYBE TS | INNKEEPER (5 A HAUNTINGLY. CAN GET SOME FAMILIAR ONE--TO US, IF NOT INFORMATION | 70 JOHNNY BLAZE--ANDHIS PS HERE--SUT I'M | WOROS ARE EQUALLY SO. H{ NOT HOLOING MY} im BREATH. E INN » IS FULL. YOU WILL eh lege e CAN'T SAY FAT CAME AMS As A‘SURPRISE. THE $3 ONLY THING LEFT IS TO CHECK THE STABLE: AND SEE--YEOH, THERE'S A L/GHT ON. SOME- ONE'S INSIDE. Q TREMBLING, SHOST RIDER PEERS INSIDE... ANO FINDS A PROUP /NOIAN COUPLE... AND THEIR: | BABY, WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, [LYING IN A MANGER. ET I'M ALMOST £ AFRAID TO LOOK, BUT I CAN'T TURN y C AM--THE CREATOR. THE CHILD ISM/NE. I ? MADE HIM. AND ‘YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS HERE. [ORDER YOU f FORBID YOU 7O ENTER THAT p PLACE! HAPPENING M HERE IS THE 3 AND MAYBE. MY SOUL, IT'S ABOUT TIME YA GOT DOWN HERE. WE JUST SAW YER TIR-TREEL CMON IN, YA-- SOMETHING IMPORTANT! CHECKOUT... JUST AS T | FEARED, Beige WELL, GUESS AGAIN, RUBBER-NOSE / YOU AIN'T GOIN WO= WHERE--CEPT TA, SUSIE'S CHRISTMAS TLL FLY TH'PLANE OUT TA ARIZONA ! YER STAYIN’ HERE “WITH YER WIFE AN! K(0--EVEN IF L GOTTA TIE YER BLASTED BOD UP IN KNOTS A KEEP Vis FROM FOLLOWIN'! YA READ FORTY! ANO THAT SPOT, BEN, iS THE LOCATION OF THE KONOHOTI INDIAN RESERVATION! HUH? WYATT WINGFOOT'S TRIBE? I DON'T GET IT....! REED, THOT AIN'T ASTAR CHART--IT'S A MAP O! THE US. OF A. NOR DO Z, AND THAT'S PRECISELY WHY I WANT YOUTO HELP ME PREP TWEpOgO PLAWE » FOR TAK ry as me FrHeRe's No way you L TOLD YA, REED--YA CAN BE SWAYED, IS BEEN WORKIN TOO HARC: THERE? SO I SUPPOSE YA GOTTA LET UP SOMETIME, NOW) G WAN-:BEAT IT=+ LEMME GET GUIN' “FORE Ya START BAWLIN'ON AY SHOULDER. = |ALL I CAN SAY IS...” THANK you, 0LO / > FRIEND. Fr WAWTED Tis cHRIST- iMAS AT HOME. MORE THAN | THAT, I REALLY DO WEEP IT. one ee el eter ed MAO Nay eae cs Reh OM Relate at see Chas added g disse EN a hela TH A STRANGELY PENSIVE BEN GRIMM AT THE CONTROLS. ; wo FUNNY. THE LONG: : ¢ £00k AT THAT STAR, TH! MORE IT SPOOKS ME. UP TA NOW, I BEEN TREATIN’ THIS PRETTY MUCH LIKE A JOKE. NOW... ZOOMIN’ TOWARD TH PUNCH LING AT MACH-4,, .LAIN'T SO BLAMED SURE. BUT, TWAS EVE: THUS WITH THAN WONDER, THEY 5 TEND TOINSPIRE ¥ FEAR, TE AJET PLANE--AND J RIT LOOKS AS IF IT'S Be?) COMING IN FOR 4, LANDING--MERE/ IS IT FART OF THE INSANITY...OR ANOTHER CURIOUS PASSEREY? | x WH- WHERE'S THE RESERVATION 2’ ALL LSEE IS AN OLO MOWE SET FROMMKING OF --" t AW, Wo! BIT CANT Be! THAT RIDGE. AN MEBBE WHOEVER LIT (7 CAN TELL je THE NUTTY.../ YER THAT JUNIOR GRADE EVEL KNIEVEL, AIN’TCHA? JOHNNY BLAZE? ‘SIDES... WE GOT A B/GGER PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS. WE GOTTA FIGGER A WAY TA GET INTA THAT TOWN WITHOUT BEIN! SEEN. FROM WHAT. YA TOLD ME...IF THERE /S AN ANSWER, IT'S DOWN THERE, Z BELIEVE % MR. GRIMM... A SIMPLE CIRCLE OF THAT THE SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM HAS JUST caveHrT up § WITH ME. AVENGING_ ANGEL WHO J ANG I REQUIRE YOUR AIO! WHY TiN HERE--AND WHY I CANT REMOVE THIS SKULL, UH, HELMET -ARE PERSON= Al MATTERS; MR.GRIMM, I s'POs WHAT YA WEAR AN’ WHERE YA GO ARE YER OWN BIZNESS...! WAIT-=AiN'T THOSE TH' THREE--? YEAH ! THAT SOUNDS GOOD. ay ROUGHT THE KIO i POWER --THE ANSWER-- UH... i ee SOME MYR @H.,.UH, WHATEVER THE WORD =-THE LAWS! SURPRISE, MELVIN! YA BLEW IT! WE ACCURSED THING! AND THE SKULL-FACED: OH, YEOH. HE'S A PAL FROM/WAY 9 | YOU FOOLS//DO BACK! AN! HE'S EVEN CRAZIER YOU REALIZE THAN HE £00KS,! : WHAT YOU'VE rie oe 5 DONE P/ YOUVE | RUINED IT ALL! ITHAB TO BE PERFECT! SURELY YOU CAN'T EXPECT ME TO LET You LIVE AFTER THIS! W-HE TURNED THEM INTO f ue is... THe MONSTERS! HOW?! WHAT) © ARACLE MAN! KIND OF POWER DOES HE CAN 0O-- | “© POSSESS P - ANYTHING. y 1 ANO SUDDENLY, THEY ARE PEACE- FUL NO MORE / FIGGERS, HE |--HOW I ESCAPED It DESPISE AIN'T PROUD. HELL THE CHEEMUZWA-- you! You EVEN TAKE 4 THE SILENT ONES -- P ARE DiRT! COMPLIMENT THE INDIAN MYSTICS FULTH! T FROM & | WHO TAUGHT ME p HATE You!T MY SKILLS ? LWHY SHOULD I YY {TELL YOu ? WHOM THAT'S % NUTHIN’ NEW. BUT WHAT WANNA, "DOURTLESS YOU RECALL THE "WE HAVE TAKEN HI AWAM THEY TOL YOU "THAT WE MAY CURE iM, TEA CH AH JOSTRUGGLE NOT. SOSTRONGLY ACHING! 115 Oy SMOR TALITY. ONLY ONE May Be Yam ABSOLUTE IN THE © UWNNERSE--HE WHO i 1S THE EARTH, THE ji SUN, THE MOON, AND ALL THE L STARS. REMEMBER THE STARS! YES, YES--'- _ | INEIAN RESERUBTION INTO THE ibe T TRANSFORMED THE TOWN WHEREIN WE STANC. AND. E-PLAGEO A BRIGHT, KEW STAKE iN. THE HEAVENS... ANG, PROM THE oe TOE THE FOURTH CHEEMUZ- WA, DCREATED THE CHILD TRTRLLY AMA perenne Ne THOUT | GONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE ‘AND THEW YOU--YOU \] [YOU WHO SHOLLOBEON YOUR A [you musro-- DULL-WITTED, EARTH-- KNEES, CRAWLING 7 ME, BEG- BOUND £/CE--YOU LOATH- GING TO KISS THE CLOAK OF YOUR SRE | SOME, MAGGOTBRANED, LORD ANO MASTER--/ | DIRT-EATING WORMS-« : You MUST PAYS EVER THERE WAS A TIME TO TURN ON EOF Me peoenew emi Fs | i 7 ay | | Sant ee g.. I'D CREATED! p la YOU RUINED in. "Zig © a a re oe el en I AS PIP YOU THINK ME TRULY HEL P= Ne 4 N-NO! STAY BACK! } LESS BEFORE YOU PL -- THE FLAME- i I WARN YOU--! SKULLEO ANGEL OF DEATH! I / j HAVE STOLEN YOUR POWER, MORTAL -*SHATTERED Your OREAM, MORTAL --MADE YOU MERELY A MAN AGAIN, MORTAL /, g M/ i] CHUM MORTAL! MORTAL! , , CHO — | ay GOT NUTHIN! a ee )YW0/CON'T Me a PAL My | A WARN ME ABOUT NO MORE! EVEN YER BARNYARD FRIENGS ARE LOSIN’ THEIR GRIP ON US. COULO BE YA JOST OVER : EXTENDED YERSELF, POOKIE} AND IF I CANNOT WIELO: O LITTLE TOWN- IT TO CREATE=-THEN YOU SHALL PERISH IN IT SHALL CESTROY! {Ty FLAMES ! AND WITH YOU--THE THING, THE SO} CALLED “ANGEL OF DEATH’ AND ALL THE INDIANS, FOR THEY ARE} PRISONERS OF MY WILL! | THEY. CANNOT 623 UNLESS I ALLOW THEM TO! MADDENED WITH RAGE THE MIRACLEMAN RACES | WHILE, BACK AMID THE INFERNO... THRU THE STREETS, SETTING FIRE TO ALL HE SEES r } AS HE MAKES HIS ESCAPE, ANP ONLY WHEN HE REACHES THE RIDGE ABOVE THE RESERVATION | DOES HE PAUSE. THE HECK WITH IT! THIS: 1S NO TIME 70 ASK QUESTIONS! CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE FOR ME OUTS/DE! in mea < CRIPES--THE WHOLE Cy BLASTED C/TY'S GOIN’ UP IN SMOKE! WE GOTTA HERO TH! PEOPLE _. OUTTA: ME, MR. GRIMM. YOU GO AFTER AN! LET YA FACE THIS THAT'S JUST ir. TMP i INNO DANGER! TS ~~ TIME WILL COME \ oe CAN'T EXPLAIN... ON AS NEL AGAIN! FOR NOW, LOOK MORE BUTIM CERTAIN } oR Ma | 71S IS VICTORY LIKE RACLE THE LANES WONT, : » ENOUGH--EVEN eee >), OKAY, PAL--IF You SAY SO. BUT YO BETTER NOT. BE SHUCKKIN ME, 00L/youU SHOULD NOT \, HAVE WARNED ME OF _/ | YOUR ATTACK / ‘OR HAD YOU FORGOTTEN [ 1 COULD MAKE MYSELF YouR fp. EQUAL INSTRENGTH? YEAH... DON'T BOTHER TRYIN' “NOW THAT | .| TA WIPE THE GUNK FROM YA MENTION| «YER FACE, M.M.-- IM mio, | | ABOUT TADOIT FOR >

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