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Ghost Rider (1973) #27, 50
Ghost Rider Team-up
The spirit of Vengeance rides roughshod over Spider-Man, the Thing, and the rest of the Marvel universe.
The Spider, the Ghost and the soul-stealer who hates them both - who will survive the Carnival of Fear? The Thing vs. the Ghost Rider in Death Race. Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Morbius and Werewolf by Night - the Legion of Monsters - join forces for the most spine-tingling team-up of all in the mysterious Marvel manner. Hawkeye, the Two-Gun Kid and the Ghost Rider take on the menacing night of Manticore. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, embark on their most dangerous mission yet: capture the Ghost Rider. Plus: the Ghost Rider’s strangest adventure ever - featuring the Night Rider, Marvel’s first Ghost Rider.
This volume collects: Ghost Rider #27, #50, Marvel Team-Up #91, Marvel Two-in-One #80, Marvel Premiere #28 & Avengers #214
The Spider, the Ghost and the soul-stealer who hates them both - who will survive the Carnival of Fear? The Thing vs. the Ghost Rider in Death Race. Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Morbius and Werewolf by Night - the Legion of Monsters - join forces for the most spine-tingling team-up of all in the mysterious Marvel manner. Hawkeye, the Two-Gun Kid and the Ghost Rider take on the menacing night of Manticore. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, embark on their most dangerous mission yet: capture the Ghost Rider. Plus: the Ghost Rider’s strangest adventure ever - featuring the Night Rider, Marvel’s first Ghost Rider.
This volume collects: Ghost Rider #27, #50, Marvel Team-Up #91, Marvel Two-in-One #80, Marvel Premiere #28 & Avengers #214
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 21, 2007
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May 18, 2023
Ghost Rider Team-Up collects team ups with the Legion of Monsters, The Thing, Hawk-Eye and the Two Gun Kid, The original Ghost Rider, and battles the Avengers.
So this was of really mixed quality. The Legion of Monsters story was pretty bad. Marvel Team-Up was okay. The Marvel Two-In-One Issue where he battles the Thing had Ron Wilson going for it and was pretty good. My favorites were easily the team up with the original Ghost Rider, aka the Night Rider, aka The Phantom Rider and Ghost Rider taking on The Avengers. Unbeknownst to me, the Avengers issue was one I read to death as a small child and forgot most of in the ensuing 40+ years. It was my favorite of the volume and not for nostalgic reasons.
Workhorse artist Don Perlin drew the two Ghost Rider issues and the art was on the high side of average. Ron Wilson, as he did most of that run, drew the MTIO issue and was up to his usual standard. I have to say Bob Hall had the best art of the book in the Avengers issue, even better than Pat Broderick on the MTU issue.
I have to admit I'm compelled to read more of the 1970s Ghost Rider stuff. He goes from a misunderstood Hulk type at times to being a wildman by the 1981 Avengers issue. What happened in between? And Johnny Blaze was making time with Karen Page at some point? So many questions...
Ghost Rider Team-Up is a fun but uneven collection. 3 out of 5 stars.
So this was of really mixed quality. The Legion of Monsters story was pretty bad. Marvel Team-Up was okay. The Marvel Two-In-One Issue where he battles the Thing had Ron Wilson going for it and was pretty good. My favorites were easily the team up with the original Ghost Rider, aka the Night Rider, aka The Phantom Rider and Ghost Rider taking on The Avengers. Unbeknownst to me, the Avengers issue was one I read to death as a small child and forgot most of in the ensuing 40+ years. It was my favorite of the volume and not for nostalgic reasons.
Workhorse artist Don Perlin drew the two Ghost Rider issues and the art was on the high side of average. Ron Wilson, as he did most of that run, drew the MTIO issue and was up to his usual standard. I have to say Bob Hall had the best art of the book in the Avengers issue, even better than Pat Broderick on the MTU issue.
I have to admit I'm compelled to read more of the 1970s Ghost Rider stuff. He goes from a misunderstood Hulk type at times to being a wildman by the 1981 Avengers issue. What happened in between? And Johnny Blaze was making time with Karen Page at some point? So many questions...
Ghost Rider Team-Up is a fun but uneven collection. 3 out of 5 stars.
January 13, 2025
This is an oddball sort of collection. These are mostly, one-off stories that directly or don’t obviously fit into the larger Ghost Rider narrative. Basically, Marvel uses this type of collection for die-hard fans that might want these stories, but don’t feel they necessarily fit (although at least a couple certainly do) within the Essential Ghost Rider or Ghost Rider Epic Collections volumes.
Marvel Premiere #28 leads off this collection, and in many ways I’d say it’s the weirdest of the bunch. Take four disparate Marvel characters with nothing else in common and throw them into a supernatural team of monsters without rhyme, reason or context. I loved this story of The Legion of Monsters when it first came out precisely because it leaves more unanswered than it answers. I can’t say that any of these characters (Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider, Jack Russell Werewolf by Night, Morbius the Living Vampire and the Man-Thing) were among my favorites, but there were at least some runs with the characters that really stood out as masterpieces. Not so much here. But it was actually the bizarre combination of these four that made this issue work so well, and made it such wild fun. (This is also included in Ghost Rider Epic Collection, Vol. 2: The Salvation Run, Morbius Epic Collection Vol. 2: The End of a Living Vampire & Werewolf by Night: The Complete Collection, Vol. 3.)
Ghost Rider #27 offers one of those few tales of Hawkeye and Two-Gun Kid during their weird bromance era while Two-Gun Kid was displaced into modern times after one of Kang’s defeats. I always liked the pairing of these two and this team-up in the pages of Ghost Rider’s regular title was another wild and weird ride.
Marvel Team-Up #91 is an almost forgettable story with Ghost Rider and Spider-Man taking on a goofy knock-off of the Ringmaster but with supernatural powers instead of mere hypnotism. Not bad, but certainly not the best possible use of these characters.
Ghost Rider #50 is a typical anniversary issue, with lots of looking back. Ghost Rider teams up with his predecessor the original Ghost Rider, here having been previously rechristened Night Rider to avoid confusion. This is decent and does fit into the larger tapestry of the Johnny Blaze narrative. It looses a bit by being taken out of context in this collection, but it’s still a nice story.
Marvel Two-In-One #80 is another almost forgettable story. This one teams Ghost Rider with the Thing from the Fantastic Four (the other members make a brief appearance here as well). While I love both of Marvel’s long-running team-up titles, they did have a tendency to often devolve into stories that were just an excuse for a random team-up. Sadly this offering, feels much like that.
Avengers #214 closes out the collection and it offers the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Tigra) trying to track down Ghost Rider and bring him to justice. It’s ambitious and unfortunately it doesn’t really provide much closure or, at least for me, resolution. I would have liked to see more of the relationship between Angel and Ghost Rider (from their days as teammates in the Champions), but it doesn’t really get developed that well.
Art styles represented here are across the spectrum, so there’s really no cohesion there either. Don Perlin, Dan Green, Frank Robbins, Pat Broderick, Ron Wilson, Chic Stone, Bob Hall, Bruce D. Patterson cover a wide range of art styles and sadly I don’t think any of these illustrate their best work in this volume. So, in the end this is really just something for die-hard Ghost Rider fans. Others probably need not bother. Although for me the kookie Legion of Monsters mash-up was great to revisit.
Marvel Premiere #28 leads off this collection, and in many ways I’d say it’s the weirdest of the bunch. Take four disparate Marvel characters with nothing else in common and throw them into a supernatural team of monsters without rhyme, reason or context. I loved this story of The Legion of Monsters when it first came out precisely because it leaves more unanswered than it answers. I can’t say that any of these characters (Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider, Jack Russell Werewolf by Night, Morbius the Living Vampire and the Man-Thing) were among my favorites, but there were at least some runs with the characters that really stood out as masterpieces. Not so much here. But it was actually the bizarre combination of these four that made this issue work so well, and made it such wild fun. (This is also included in Ghost Rider Epic Collection, Vol. 2: The Salvation Run, Morbius Epic Collection Vol. 2: The End of a Living Vampire & Werewolf by Night: The Complete Collection, Vol. 3.)
Ghost Rider #27 offers one of those few tales of Hawkeye and Two-Gun Kid during their weird bromance era while Two-Gun Kid was displaced into modern times after one of Kang’s defeats. I always liked the pairing of these two and this team-up in the pages of Ghost Rider’s regular title was another wild and weird ride.
Marvel Team-Up #91 is an almost forgettable story with Ghost Rider and Spider-Man taking on a goofy knock-off of the Ringmaster but with supernatural powers instead of mere hypnotism. Not bad, but certainly not the best possible use of these characters.
Ghost Rider #50 is a typical anniversary issue, with lots of looking back. Ghost Rider teams up with his predecessor the original Ghost Rider, here having been previously rechristened Night Rider to avoid confusion. This is decent and does fit into the larger tapestry of the Johnny Blaze narrative. It looses a bit by being taken out of context in this collection, but it’s still a nice story.
Marvel Two-In-One #80 is another almost forgettable story. This one teams Ghost Rider with the Thing from the Fantastic Four (the other members make a brief appearance here as well). While I love both of Marvel’s long-running team-up titles, they did have a tendency to often devolve into stories that were just an excuse for a random team-up. Sadly this offering, feels much like that.
Avengers #214 closes out the collection and it offers the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Tigra) trying to track down Ghost Rider and bring him to justice. It’s ambitious and unfortunately it doesn’t really provide much closure or, at least for me, resolution. I would have liked to see more of the relationship between Angel and Ghost Rider (from their days as teammates in the Champions), but it doesn’t really get developed that well.
Art styles represented here are across the spectrum, so there’s really no cohesion there either. Don Perlin, Dan Green, Frank Robbins, Pat Broderick, Ron Wilson, Chic Stone, Bob Hall, Bruce D. Patterson cover a wide range of art styles and sadly I don’t think any of these illustrate their best work in this volume. So, in the end this is really just something for die-hard Ghost Rider fans. Others probably need not bother. Although for me the kookie Legion of Monsters mash-up was great to revisit.
January 3, 2016
Collections of non-consecutive, non-related (other than GR teaming up) material is destined to be hit and miss. Here, a couple of mostly good stories - one set in the old west featuring Night Rider and another with Hawkeye & The Two-Gun Kid - shine next to sad garbage like the team up with The Thing in the Marvel 2-in-1 book. Proceed at your own risk.
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