Marvel Spotlight Vol 1 6

	Published
	October, 1972
Issue Details
	Pages 32 Original Price 20c US
"Angels from Hell!"
	Writer Gary Friedrich; Penciler Mike Ploog; Inker Frank Monte; Letterer John Costanza; Editor Roy Thomas;

Stand ye back, foolish mortals, lest I summon forth the powers of Hell itself to repel your puny attacks!

-- Ghost Rider

Appearing in "Angels from Hell!"

Featured Characters:

Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) (Appears in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Crash Simpson's / Johnny Blaze's Daredevil Show (Main story and flashback)
- Crash Simpson (Only in flashback)
- Roxanne Simpson (Appears in flashback)

Antagonists:

Satan's Servants (First appearance)
- Animal (Only appearance)^[1]
- Curly Samuels (First appearance) (Impersonates Crash Simpson)
- Baby Jack (Only appearance)^[1]
Satan (Main story and recap)

Other Characters:

Spirit of Vengeance (Zarathos) (Behind the scenes in main story and recap)
Barton Blaze (Referenced) (Deceased)
Mona Simpson (Death in recap)
NYPD (Cameo)

Races and Species:

Humans (Main story and flashback)
Demons (Main story and recap)
Vampires (Referenced)

Locations:

Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
  - New York (Main story and recap)
    - New York City (Main story and recap)
      - Manhattan (Main story and recap)
        Greenwich Village
        Midtown (Main story and recap)
        Madison Square Garden (Main story and recap)
  - Nevada (Recap)
    - Crash Simpson's Daredevil Show (Recap)
  - Hollywood, California (Mentioned)
Hell (Mentioned)

Vehicles:

Hell Cycle (Main story and recap)

Synopsis for "Angels from Hell!"

While roaming the streets at night, Ghost Rider is confronted and later chased by a group of bikers called Satan's Saints. With no option but to fight them, the Ghost Rider easily defeats them, however their leader a man named Curly offers Ghost Rider membership in the club, needing a place to stay for the night, Ghost Rider agrees.

At the Satan's Saints' hideout, Ghost Rider is mesmerized into telling Curly how he became the Ghost Rider. After recounting the events that led to his current predicament, Ghost Rider passes out. Curly prepares a sacrifice and summons Satan, who reveals Curly to be the reincarnation of Crash Simpson, who has promised to bring the soul of Johnny Blaze in order to be restored to life. However, this proves impossible as Roxanne Simpson's pure love for Johnny prevents the ritual from commencing. Satan orders Crash to take the soul of his daughter, before changing him back into Curly and leaving.

Changing back into Johnny Blaze in the morning, Johnny returns to the arena where Roxanne's next show is taking place and promises her that he will tell her what's going on before falling asleep. He wakes up at night when he once more transforms into the Ghost Rider. Curly is there waiting for him to "warn" him that Satan's Saints are going to attack the show and try to kidnap Roxanne. Rushing into the show, Ghost Rider thwarts the attempt (which the audience believes is part of the show) and afterwords decides that he is too much of a danger to Roxanne and leaves. Left alone with Curly, Roxanne is knocked out and Curly picks up her unconscious body to begin the sacrifice ritual.

Solicit Synopsis

The Ghost Rider lives - or does he?

Notes

Continuity Notes

On the previous issue, Johnny Blaze made a pact with Satan in order to save his father's life. Although that Satan was intended to be the real Satan, father of Daimon and Satana Hellstrom,^[2]^[3] he was retconned into being Mephisto in Ghost Rider Vol 2 #68. It was then retconned again several years later in Ghost Rider Vol 6 #5, where the real Judeo-Catholic Satan, Lucifer, was revealed to be the Devil who bonded Blaze to Zarathos. Lucifer first appeared in Ghost Rider Vol 6 #1.

Chronology Notes

A flashback in this story affects the chronology of the following characters:

Roxanne Simpson - Pag. 11, Panel 1
Johnny Blaze - Pag. 11, Panel 1

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