Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)

Roxanne Blaze
Name	Roxanne Simpson Blaze
Aliases	Rocky, Roxy, the Black Rose, Katy Milner
Affiliation and Relationships
Relatives	Parents: Craig Simpson (father, deceased); Mona Simpson (mother, deceased) Spouses: Johnny Blaze (husband of Roxanne); Noble Kale (husband of Black Rose) Children: Craig Blaze (son); Emma Blaze (daughter) Other Relatives: Ida Winslow (maternal aunt); Charlie Winslow (maternal cousin) Family-in-Law: Paul Winslow (maternal uncle-in-law)
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5′8″ (1.73 m)
Weight	115 lbs (52.16 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Strawberry Blond
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human magic user turned into a demon
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Death	Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Demon; former circus performer
Base of Operations	Hell Formerly mobile
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Gary Friedrich, Mike Ploog
First	Marvel Spotlight #5 (May, 1972)
First	Marvel Spotlight #5 (May, 1972)
Death	Ghost Rider (Vol. 3) #50 (April, 1994)
Death	Ghost Rider (Vol. 3) #50 (April, 1994)

Away from her, Blaze. She is no longer yours to play with.

—Blackheart

History

With his mother abandoning him and taking his siblings, and his father dead, Johnny Blaze was taken in by Roxanne Simpson's father Crash Simpson and their family at the Quentin Carnival. As a child Johnny was at first friends with Roxanne, but when he started staying with them, he and Roxanne eventually fell in love.

After Blaze made a deal with the devil to cure Crash Simpson's cancer, all seemed well; but then Crash died anyway in a freak stunt-cycle accident. After that, Satan/Mephisto came to claim Blaze's soul.

Fortunately Roxanne arrived on the scene, and using a combination of her pure soul and some mystic incantations she had learned by reading Johnny's secret occult books behind his back, she was able to drive the devil away temporarily, but Mephisto still managed to bond Johnny's soul to the demon Zarathos, transforming him into the Ghost Rider as a curse.

Much of Johnny's adventures as the Ghost Rider after that were centered around Mephisto attempting to get Roxanne to rescind her protection of Blaze so that he could claim his soul permanently.

Eventually, Mephisto did manage to trick Roxanne into renouncing her protection of the Ghost Rider, causing him to lose a great deal of his supernatural power and abilities temporarily. But despite Mephisto's failure, he was still determined to have Johnny's soul and Roxanne realized that she had to go away until she had matured emotionally with the whole situation.

Eventually, Roxanne got temporary amnesia and forgot who Johnny was, and when Johnny became convinced that Roxanne had abandoned him, he set off on his own. She was possessed by the demon Legion who transformed her into Katy Milner, a stunt double for Karen Page who was working with Blaze at the time. When the demon revealed itself, Blaze called upon Daimon Hellstrom to exorcise it. After defeating the demon known as the Challenger, Roxanne was returned to her proper form.

Johnny and Roxanne were reunited and Roxanne regained her memory. After Blaze was cured of being the Ghost Rider, the two married and had two children, Craig and Emma. The family then became deeply involved in the carnival that Johnny came to run; this itself would become the focus for more supernatural incidents after that when Johnny's long-lost younger brother, Danny Ketch, became the second Ghost Rider after his brother with the spirit of Johnny and Danny's ancestor Noble Kale.

While Johnny and Roxanne were paying one of their visits to Danny, a villain named Hellgate supposedly killed Roxanne and her two children, although the children later turned out to be alive and were somehow working for the Wendigo.

Roxanne was then revived as a demonic servant of Blackheart, taking on the name and identity of the Black Rose.

The Black Rose helped unleash the Olympian goddesses of vengeance known as the Furies to destroy the Ghost Rider (Noble Kale) and his bloodline, such as Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch. The Furies' fiendish onslaught was stopped from the plane of Heaven by the Forces of Light, and the Black Rose/Roxanne now found herself cornered by Noble Kale, Johnny Blaze and the young sorceress Jennifer Kale; who was also Johnny and Danny's cousin. The Black Rose was too weak to defend herself and was about to meet her death at the hands of Johnny himself and his special Hellfire Shotgun, but Blackheart intervened and revealed via a cryptic message to the trio that the Black Rose was Roxanne Simpson, revealing her identity.

The Black Rose then later married Noble Kale in a demonic wedding ceremony organized by Blackheart in order to obtain special powers from Noble. Though she had no memory of her past self initially, Noble Kale was able to restore her memories when he temporarily became the Ruler of Hell and brought her back from the dead. Apparently feeling that Johnny had moved on again, Roxanne decided to let Johnny continue believing that she was dead and move on herself.

It was recently revealed that Roxanne and her two children have died and are in Heaven now.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

In her normal life, Roxanne seemed to have an affinity for the supernatural and some skill in magic. As the Black Rose, she could form thorns.

See Also

• 77 appearance(s) of Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)
• 9 minor appearance(s) of Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)
• 17 mention(s) of Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)
• 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)
• 15 image(s) of Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Roxanne Simpson (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Roxanne Simpson on Marvel.com
• Roxanne Simpson on Wikipedia.org