Cosmic ghost rider series#

While perhaps one of the strangest origin stories to cross Marvel’s desk, fans have been going wild for the new character, which allowed for Cosmic Ghost Rider’s creative team to go as wild on the series as they felt appropriate. Though Galactus doesn’t survive the encounter with Thanos, Castle was now free to delve out beatings all across the universe. However, upon his return to the land of the living, he found that Thanos had scoured the planet of nearly all life and the villian was. Making a deal with Mephisto, he returned to life as a Ghost Rider in order to punish the Mad Titan. After years of riding the barren planet by himself, Galactus stumbles onto Earth and asks Castle for his help in defeating Thanos, to which Castle agrees, hence Cosmic Ghost Rider. In this universe, Frank was killed during a battle with Thanos. The official origin story states that after Thanos arrives and destroys all of Earth, the Punisher makes one last wish to get revenge on that “purple sonofabitch.” Hearing his please, Mephisto offers him the mantel of Ghost Rider, though unfortunately for him, there’s no one left to punish, after all, the Earth is dead. THE FUTURE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY FOR THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE. The Punisher/Ghost Rider is not only empowered with the power of revenge and a sweet-ass bike, but he also gets to travel space! Throw in a Thanos-lead, alternate future and you got yourself one of the most anticipated comics of 2018.Ĭosmic Ghost Rider, which will be hitting shelves July 4th, will be picking up where the current Thanos leaves off, that is between when Castle’s Ghost Rider arrival and the millennia before he gets crushed by Thor’s hammer. Which, of course, is exactly what the ultimate gun-toting bad-ass, The Punisher does.

While the most well-known is the Nicholas Cage toting Johnny Blaze, much like Galactus’s herald, The Spirit of Vengeance can be a part of anyone as long as they’re willing to trade their soul to Mephisto for a chance at revenge. The Ghost Rider mantel has been handled by a number of characters over the years.

Cosmic ghost rider