

Crash was cured, momentarily, but then died shortly after in a stunt gone wrong. The first rule is that the devil always lies. Believing he had summoned the biblical Devil himself, Johnny in fact had summoned the demon lord Mephisto and bargained his soul away in exchange for Crash's life.

When Johnny's stepfather was dying of cancer, Johnny turned to the occult to try and cure the illness. Johnny eventually grew to have romantic feelings for his adoptive sister, Roxanne. Barton later died in a stunt, and Johnny was adopted by fellow stunt drivers Crash and Mona Simpson. His father, Barton Blaze, raised Johnny and his siblings alone when Johnny's mother, Naomi, left them.

Johnny Blaze grew up in a family of stunt drivers. The human inside of Ghost Rider would like nothing more than to be free of his curse, but in the meantime, he's going to make a lot of bad people suffer. Possessed by a demon named Zarathos, Johnny Blaze constantly craves vengeance against evil and is compelled to seek it out, using his supernatural hellfire and Penance Stare to burn the souls of the wicked. A motorcycle stunt driver turned spirit of vengeance after a fateful deal with the demon lord Mephisto, Ghost Rider defies his benefactor and rides his blazing motorcycle, dispensing vengeance to the souls of all those who would do the world harm.
