Ghost Rider #6

From 1974, this Marvel chiller captures the supernatural dread at the heart of Ghost Rider's ongoing curse: the cover by John Romita unfolds like a three-panel transformation sequence, showing Johnny Blaze's horrified face melting into the flaming skull of Ghost Rider himself — "less than human," as the cover copy puts it. Below, Ghost Rider tears through the scene on his chopper amid scattered bystanders and a blonde woman, with the teaser promising that only she holds the secret that can save him — all building toward the story promised at the bottom: "The Menace of the Second Zodiac!" Written by Tony Isabella and Gary Friedrich with interior art by Jim Mooney, this issue blends superhero action with genuine supernatural unease in a way that still feels compelling fifty years on.