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Danny Ketch was manipulated by the demon Mephisto his entire life. Speaking through his teddy bear, Mr. M, Mephisto twisted Danny into a psychopathic killer. At age six, Danny was convinced to kill his foster parents in a fire. By the time he was seventeen, he was an experienced killer, murdering Jennifer Kale as she was hitchhiking.

By the time he was twenty, Danny's killings had become almost routine, and he'd killed so many people he'd lost count. It was then that Mephisto convinced him to kill his sister, Barbara Ketch, and revealed to him his destiny. As he stood in the graveyard over the dead body of his sister, a motorcycle appeared before him. Touching it, he became possessed by the spirit of the Ghost Rider.

The Ghost Rider soon realised there was something terribly wrong, but was unable to stop its new host's murderous agenda. Corrupted, the Ghost Rider found itself nothing but a scapegoat for Danny's crimes. Danny would murder innocents before transforming into the Ghost Rider, who would be blamed for the killings, allowing Danny to escape suspicion.

Mephisto then convinced Danny that he needed to kill his long-lost brother, Johnny Blaze. Travelling to Arizona, Danny destroyed Johnny's home and attacked his family, before transforming once again into the Ghost Rider to confront Johnny. As the Ghost Rider struggled to resist the growing corruption caused by possessing Danny's body, he begged Johnny to kill him.

With the Ghost Rider destroyed, Danny no longer had a body to return to, and his spirit floated endlessly in the void, Mephisto's mocking laughter surrounding him.[1]

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