8/30/2023 0 Comments Danny ketch ghost riderDan's good friend Jack D'Auria was also eventually caught up in the conflict against Deathwatch's men, where he helped Ghost Rider fight them. Barbara's unconscious body was taken to a hospital by the cops, but not much time later she was killed by Blackout, who had learned Daniel's secret identity and sought revenge on Ghost Rider for burning his face (an injury Blackout actually had himself to blame for). Eventually, Ghost Rider drove into a secluded alleyway where he turned back into Daniel Ketch. Leaving Barbara's body behind, Ghost Rider escaped the police on his flaming motorbike, which had also been transformed when Danny touched the glowing gas cap. Ghost Rider confronted and began to torture the henchmen of Deathwatch, but was interrupted by the arrival of the police. As Ghost Rider, both Daniel's mind and Ghost Rider's mind were in control, resulting in Danny being only somewhat influential in his own actions. Inspecting the glowing gas cap, Danny touched it with his blood-stained hand and instantly transformed into Ghost Rider, a Spirit of Vengeance whose mission was to take revenge on those who shed innocent blood. Distressed and covered in his sister's blood, he hid there with his sister's unconscious body from Deathwatch's henchmen until he noticed a pristine motorbike with a glowing gas cap. Barbara was shot through the chest with an arrow by one of Deathwatch's henchmen, so Danny grabbed his sister's body and ran away to a nearby junkyard. The two gangs began fighting each other, and Barbara cried out, causing Deathwatch to become aware of her presence. During this excursion, the siblings stumbled upon a confrontation between two gangs, one led by Deathwatch and the other made up of cronies belonging to the Kingpin. On Halloween night when they were teenagers, Danny took his sister Barbara to a graveyard to give her the opportunity to take pictures of the grave of Harry Houdini. Working as a paperboy, the "nice, normal, ordinary" Danny had his photo taken with Phil and Doris Sheldon to mark Phil's decision to retire from photographing superheroes. When on a fifth grade field trip to Manhattan, he was interviewed on television after seeing Spider-Man and the Human Torch driving the Spider-Mobile up walls. Ketch as their mother, but their biological mom, Naomi Kale, continued to keep tabs on the kids until her death ten years later. 1.6 The Last Stand of the Spirits of Vengeanceĭaniel "Danny" Ketch and his sister Barbara were born to Barton Blaze and Naomi Kale, but were given away to a widowed woman named Francis Ketch when they were very young.We can only hope it’s as much a delight for the kid in the comic shop today, discovering that skull for the first time. It’s a delight for any kid who spun a spinner rack in the ’90s hoping to find that very specific glowing skull. It’s likely a delight for Mackie, and (one hopes) Picciotto. This second issue is a delight for me, personally. That is, it panders to anyone who might try to attempt to place this story in the continuity of 1992. This means that Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch – and Nocenti’s Storm, and Hama’s Patch, etc, etc – is a niche experience, one that can’t help feel a little pandering for older grumps longing for comics to be like they were back when I was a kid, walking uphill both ways in the snow. Blackout and Scarecrow, and all the trappings of that old continuity, won’t shine with ‘good-old-days’ charm to the uninitiated. These stories are nostalgia bombs, self-celebratory visits to the long ago, which means that new readers looking to understand the Dan Ketch they’re reading over in the contemporary series aren’t going to be so easily wowed. This sort of greatest-hits storytelling has a troubling double edge, however. At least we know the Rider is targeting *actual* villains.
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