Marvel's Spirit of Vengeance
GHOST
RIDER
A stunt rider sold his soul to save his father and came back with a skull of fire. Fifty years on, the Spirit of Vengeance has burned through five hosts, two Hells, one Charger and a multiverse. This is the whole road.
THE NAME OUTLIVES THE MAN
One title, many riders
Ghost Rider is not a person. It is a sentence.
Whoever carries the Spirit of Vengeance inherits the same terms: a body that burns without being consumed, a stare that returns every cruelty a soul has ever dealt, and a hunger to punish the guilty that never quite belongs to the host. Johnny Blaze took the deal for his father. Danny Ketch touched the wrong motorcycle. Robbie Reyes was murdered in a stolen car and came back with his uncle in the passenger seat.
This site follows all of them — the hosts, the demons that ride them, the lords of Hell who bargain for them, the machines they drive and the fifty-year publishing history that keeps rebuilding the myth.
Read the overview or jump straight to the Spirit itself.
1972 — present
JOHNNY BLAZE
Host of Zarathos · King of Hell (briefly)
Carnival stunt cyclist who traded his soul to Mephisto to cure his adoptive father's cancer, then watched Crash Simpson die in a jump anyway. The devil kept the receipt: every night the demon Zarathos took over his body.
1990 — present
DANNY KETCH
The Brooklyn Rider · Noble Kale's heir
A teenager from Cypress Hills who found a glowing motorcycle in a junkyard while his sister bled from a gangster's bullet. The gas cap bore a burning sigil; when he touched it he became a taller, leaner, chain-wielding Ghost Rider who could look a killer in the eye and make him feel every wound he had ever inflicted.
2014 — present
ROBBIE REYES
East Los Angeles · The Hell Charger
A high-school mechanic raising his disabled younger brother, shot dead during a street race in a borrowed 1969 Dodge Charger. What brought him back was not a Spirit of Vengeance at all but the ghost of his uncle Eli Morrow, a satanic serial killer with plans for the boy's body.
Vengeance does not forgive. It only balances the ledger.The Rider's creed, paraphrased across fifty years of writers
THE WHOLE ROAD
27 pages, one universe
Every page is built to stand alone, so start wherever the fire catches. New to the character? Take Overview, then Origins, then Powers. Here for the comics? Go to Where to start reading. Here because of the movie news? News has the 2028 film.
HELL HAS A RELEASE DATE
Latest
At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Marvel Studios announced a new Ghost Rider feature with Ryan Gosling as Johnny Blaze and Shawn Levy directing, from a script by Jonathan Tropper. Disney later dated it for July 28, 2028 — the first Marvel Studios Ghost Rider film, sixteen years after the second Sony picture.