Object label
Marvel · Comics · Marvel Spotlight · 1972
Marvel Spotlight #5
Marvel Spotlight · 1972
Johnny Blaze's first appearance! The world has never seen anything like the mysterious new Ghost Rider -- and neither have you!
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Marvel Spotlight #5 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Gary Friedrich, John Costanza, and Mike Ploog, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Marvel Spotlight #5 is a comics collectible connected to Marvel and Marvel Spotlight. Useful collector signals include release year 1972, issue #5, and artist context from Roy Thomas, John Costanza, and Gary Friedrich. Marvel Spotlight has 1 catalogued release on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
Marvel Spotlight #5 is a comics entry for issue #5 in Marvel Spotlight from 1972. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
Marvel pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Crash Simpson, Ghost Rider (Blaze), Mephisto, Roxanne Simpson Blaze, and Zarathos.
Series context
Marvel Spotlight
Marvel Spotlight groups related comics entries from Marvel, so collectors can move from this object into nearby releases instead of treating it as a standalone record.
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- 1 object
- Release span
- 1972
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- Marvel
- Series
- Marvel Spotlight
- Issue number
- #5
- Cover date
- Aug 1, 1972
- Characters
- Crash Simpson, Ghost Rider (Blaze), Mephisto, Roxanne Simpson Blaze, Zarathos
- Creators
- Gary Friedrich, John Costanza, Mike Ploog, Roy Thomas
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Data source
- Source
- Metron
- Source ID
- 52582
- Source URL
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