Ghost Rider #19
Ghost Rider #19 marks the first appearance of Suicide, a character defined by his Faustian bargain with Mephisto that grants him near-indestructible regenerative abilities — making him a conceptually fitting antagonist for a series steeped in demonic dealmaking and the price of power. The issue deepens the thematic texture of Howard Mackie's Danny Ketch run by running two parallel Mephisto-brokered arrangements simultaneously: Ghost Rider's relentless pursuit of the demon-powered serial killer Zodiak, and an unnamed man's fateful deal with the devil himself. As the first chapter of a two-part arc that closes out the book's second year, it crystallizes Mackie's approach of weaving morally weighted supporting characters into the Spirit of Vengeance's world, expanding the cast of Mephisto's pawns well beyond Ghost Rider himself.
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The 1990 Danny Ketch Ghost Rider series was itself a hard-won project: writer Howard Mackie has recounted that Marvel's sales department actively tried to block the book before launch, and it was editor Bobbie Chase and editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco who pushed it through to publication. By issue #19, Mackie and artist Mark Texeira — who had taken over full pencilling duties from co-creator Javier Saltares — had established a consistent creative partnership that defined the visual and tonal identity of the run, with Texeira's heavily textured, shadow-drenched line work providing the atmospheric backbone for Mackie's street-level horror stories. The issue sits within the second year of a series that had, against many internal expectations, become one of Marvel's strongest-selling titles of the early 1990s.
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- First appearance of Suicide, a villain whose resurrection ability stems from a pact made with the demon Mephisto.
- Story title: 'The Deal!' — Part 1 of a two-part arc concluded in Ghost Rider #20.
- Written by Howard Mackie; pencilled and cover-illustrated by Mark Texeira; edited by Bobbie Chase.
- Published November 1991 by Marvel Comics as part of the Danny Ketch Ghost Rider series (vol. 3, 1990–1998).
- The issue features Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) in continued conflict with Zodiak, a demon-powered serial killer first introduced in Ghost Rider #10 (February 1991) and created by Mackie, Javier Saltares, and Mark Texeira.
- Mephisto plays a key behind-the-scenes role as the issue's B-plot centers on a character sealing a devil's bargain with him — directly paralleling the demonic-deal mythology at the core of the Ghost Rider franchise.
- Collected in Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Classic Vol. 2 (2010 trade paperback, collecting issues #11–20) and Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Omnibus Vol. 1 (2024 oversize hardcover, collecting issues #1–24).
- Also slated for inclusion in Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Epic Collection Vol. 2 — 'Bad to the Bone' (2026), collecting issues #13–24.
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Reprinted in Ghost Rider #10 (1993), Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Classic #2 (2010), Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Omnibus #1 (2024)
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