Warning: Contains Spoilers for Hellhunters #1 & Thunderbolts: Doomstrike #2! Ghost Rider is probably the greatest legacy character in Marvel Comics, as many people have held the title of Spirit of Vengeance, and all of them offer something new and interesting to the character’s wider lore. Johnny Blaze, Danny Ketch, and Robbie Reyes are the most popular incarnations of Ghost Rider, but they’re far from the only ones. And now, an all-new Ghost Rider has just hit the scene, and his backstory has been revealed ahead of his Thunderbolts debut.

In Hellhunters #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Adam Gorham, readers are thrown into Russia in December 1943, where a troop of badly injured Nazi soldiers are fighting for survival. The Russian soldiers don’t even bother chasing them deep into the woods, as the Nazis are dead men anyway. That is, until they stumble upon a horrific demon chained to a post,...