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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: Ghost Rider #3 (313)
Publication Date: January 2001
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/27/2021
Volume: 3
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9781302929305
UPC/EAN: 978130292930557500
Price: $95.00 CAD
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Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
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Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Hellspawn Versus Master of the Mystic Arts!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
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Marvel Masterworks Presents Ghost Rider

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Vs. Gladiator and the Eel!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Eel; Gladiator [Melvin Potter]
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Deathplay!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Karen Page; Coot Collier; Gladiator [Melvin Potter]; Eel (death); Crash Simpson (flashback); Roxanne Simpson (flashback); Nomad (flashback); Human Torch (flashback)
Johnny discovers that the stunt coordinator hired for an episode of his TV show is really the Eel in civilian guise but he fails to keep Daredevil's old foe, Gladiator, from killing Eel and taking a mysterious machine in his possession.
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Nobody Beats the Enforcer!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Enforcer
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Nobody Beats the Enforcer!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Karen Page; Stuntmaster; Roxanne Simpson; Coot Collier; Carson Collier; Enforcer; Charles L. Delazny
The Enforcer uses the gizmo taken from the Eel to create a deadly disintegrator beam and promptly becomes the leader of the California mob. While proving his new power at a naval yard, Ghost Rider motors in to stop him.
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Wrath of the Water Wizard!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Water Wizard
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Romita alterations on Ghost Rider's face and Verpoorten inks per Nick Caputo, September 2012.

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Wrath of the Water Wizard!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Champions [Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman; Black Widow [Natasha Romanova]; Hercules]; Ivan Petrovich; Stuntmaster; Roxanne Simpson; Coot Collier; Enforcer; Water Wizard [Peter Van Zante] (introduction, origin); Mole (introduction); Charles L. Delazny
The Enforcer hires Water Wizard to take down the Ghost Rider.
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Showdown With the Enforcer!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Enforcer; Water Wizard
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I, the Enforcer...!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Roxanne Simpson; Enforcer; Water Wizard; Charles L. Delazny; Big Jim Galton (Introduction)
Surviving an attempt to fake his "accidental" death, Ghost Rider takes on the Enforcer and his goons.
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Mayhem at 180 MPH!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]
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Menace Is a Man Called Malice!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Karen Page; Roxanne Simpson; Coot Collier; Stuntmaster; Malice (introduction)
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A Doom Named Dr. Druid!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Druid [Anthony Druid]
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Cover letters credit confirmed by Todd Klein in The Danny Crespi Files Part 12, posted 23 June 2017 on his blog (Todd Klein's Blog at Goodreads). The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981) credited Annette Kawecki.
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A Doom Named Dr. Druid!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Druid [Anthony Druid]; Roger Cross; Karen Page; Roxanne Simpson; Charles Delazny; Coot Collier; Armstrong (security guard)
Believing that Ghost Rider is an evil demon, Dr. Druid shows up and picks a fight. Responding to the Druid's attack, Johnny transforms into the Ghost Rider in front of his entire TV crew, putting to rest any question that he is the spirit of vengeance. After the battle and feeling like he has no choice, Johnny leaves Los Angeles and his TV stunt career behind.
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Ghost Rider vs. the Menacing Might of the Manticore!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Hawkeye; Two-Gun Kid; Manticore
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Possible Wilson pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sal Buscema.
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At the Mercy of the Manticore!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Hawkeye; Two-Gun Kid (between AVENGERS #162 / 167); Brahma Bill (introduction); Manticore (introduction); Roxanne Simpson (cameo flashback); Karen Page (cameo flashback); Coot Collier (cameo flashback); Dr. Druid (cameo flashback)
Johnny is on the road fleeing from his old life when his bike starts to act up. He pulls into a ranch for repairs where he meets up with Hawkeye and Two-Gun Kid just in time to help battle the Manticore.
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Evil Is the Orb!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Orb
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Evil Is the Orb!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Brahma Bill; Roxanne Simpson; Orb
While on the road, Ghost Rider crashes and has to make his way as Johnny to the nearest town where he is accosted by The Orb looking for revenge. Roxanne is trying to track down her beau in the same town but is confronted by The Orb who steals her memories. After helping Ghost Rider fight off The Orb and his gang, Brahma Bill takes advantage of Roxy's situation and tells her she is his girl while Johnny, unaware that she is so close, rides off.
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Pablo Marcos inks Perlin's last page and all of the Sutton pages. Artist information 2005 by Steven Tice.
Without his bike and looking for a ride, Johnny is offered a lift by a hippie in a psychedelic dune buggy with the name "The Grass Hut" written on the side. The driver offers our hero what looks like a joint while he tells him, "Take a drag on this. It'll help settle yer nerves for ya!" Johnny refuses and looks for another ride.
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Hellspawn Versus Master of the Mystic Arts!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
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Deadly Pawn!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Dormammu; Evil Doctor Strange; Evil Roxanne Simpson; Demons; Bounty Hunter [Haskill] (introduction); Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange] (cameo)
In the middle of a stunt, Ghost Rider is pulled into the sanctum sanctorum of Dr. Strange where he is attacked. Battling the good Doctor through a dimension of demons, GR does not realize that he is being manipulated by the dread Dormammu. Getting the spirit of vengeance good and mad at the creature who he thinks is Dr. Strange, Dormammu opens a portal into the real world where GR confronts the real Strange.
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Letterer information 2005 by Steven Tice. Letters credits had been published in The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981).

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And One Shall Die!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
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The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981) incorrectly credits Annette Kawecki on lettering.
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The Mage and the Monster!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Clea; Wong; Dormammu; Bounty Hunter (cameo); Crash Simpson (flashback); Roxanne Simpson (flashback); Satan [Mephisto] (flashback); Evil Doctor Strange (flashback)
Thinking he is the evil entity who attacked him and goaded on by Dormammu, Ghost Rider battles Doctor Strange. Strange and Dormammu enter Ghost Rider's psyche to duke it out and the sorcerer supreme sends Johnny Blaze to safety--into his own physical body.
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Beware... The Bounty Hunter!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Bounty Hunter
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Cover signed on a bottle at the bottom.

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Demon's Rage!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Clea; Dormammu; Bounty Hunter
Johnny, in the body of Doctor Strange, battles the demonic Ghost Rider while Strange himself fights Dormammu in Ghost Rider's psyche. After the battle, the Bounty Hunter arrives and chases down the spirit of vengeance.
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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Bounty Hunter; demonic cowboys
Featuring the soul-searing origin of the Bounty Hunter!
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The Price!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Bounty Hunter (origin); demonic cowboys
The Bounty Hunter explains his own deal with the devil to Ghost Rider which includes killing the spirit of vengeance. A trio of demonic cowboys arrive to halt the Bounty Hunter's plans and nullify his contract.
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Death-Riders From Beyond!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Robots
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...Whom a Child Would Destroy!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Woody Guthers; Jonathan Beame; Nathan Beame (villain); Dark Rider Robots (villain)
Johnny is trapped in a ghost town when he is confronted by a prospector with amazing powers and the two are captured by a giant ship spouting motorcycle riding robots.
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The Demon Within!

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The Boy Who Lived Forever!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Jonathan Beame (death); Woody Guthers (death); Anne Beame (death); Nathan Beame (villain); Professor X (cameo flashback); Cyclops (cameo flashback)
Ghost Rider faces off with a boy wielding incredible powers.
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Death Race!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Death Ryder
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Deathrace!

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Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Death Ryder (introduction, villain, death, or an incarnation of Death)
Ghost Rider is forced into running a race with death for his very life.
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Finished art was credited in this issue to Steve Leialoha “and Friends”; sources for specific credits are The Marvel Comics Index (Olshevsky 1981) and Official Index to the Marvel Universe (Jensen et al. 2011). OIMU cited the letters page of Ghost Rider #37 (August 1979).
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The Legion of Monsters [Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Morbius; Man-Thing; Werewolf by Night [Jack Russell]]
Stay back! Even we don't stand a chance against...that!
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There's a Mountain on Sunset Boulevard!

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The Legion of Monsters [Ghost Rider [Johnny Blaze]; Man-Thing; Morbius; Werewolf By Night [Jack Russell]]; The Starseed (introduction, death); Jaard (flashback); Lara (flashback)
Once you were a man, a chemist named Ted Sallis...
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Supernatural Sensations!

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Ghost Rider #23 Cover Art

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Ghost Rider #23 cover original art.
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Ghost Rider #25 Page 14 Art

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Ghost Rider #25 Page 17 Art

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Ghost Rider #29 Cover Art

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Ghost Rider #30 Cover Art

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Ghost Rider #35 Page 1 Art

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Ghost Rider #35 Unused Cover

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Biographies

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Marvel Masterworks

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