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Remember when Ghost Rider and The Thing met Jesus Christ?

Dalek

Dalek

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This is from the classic "Marvel Two-in-One #8" from March 1975.

This issue stats when Ghost Rider is just doing his thing and joyriding down the road in Arizona. All of a sudden he encounters the Three Wise Men. But he says "ain't nobody got time for that" and heads off.

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Turns out something is amiss at Wyatt Wingfoot's tribe's reservation. Reed Richards notices this (of course) and Ben Grimm decides to check things out. He meets up with his buddy Ghost Rider and they don very effective disguises so no one will recognize them. Then they see the nativity scene:
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turns out this loser Miracle Man orchestrated this who mess because he wanted to....somehow...become a God. But he wasn't expecting Marvel's Dynamic Duo to show up and they easily defeat him. And everything goes back to normal. Except that the reservation takes in the miracle baby...

Ben wonders if Jesus protected him during the fight or Satan. Then Ghost Rider bids them adios.

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I leaned about this forgotten tale of Marvel lore from this article on cbr.
 
Volimar

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ofc everyone knows that the official language of ancient Bethlehem is modern English.
 
Saucycarpdog

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Thank you Slavyen for my daily reminder of how weird old........wait, you're not Slavyen, you're an imposter!
 
Zeliard

Zeliard

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Comics are great. I half-expected the Rider to say "do not be afraid" in that third panel.

And that disguise is just beautiful. He looks stunning.

Comics are great.
 
Man God

Man God

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Jesus being canon has some disturbing implications for the various really shitty Christians who show up in the Marvel universe. Maybe he was taken out by House of M though.
 
Slayven

Slayven

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Man God said:
Jesus being canon has some disturbing implications for the various really shitty Christians who show up in the Marvel universe. Maybe he was taken out by House of M though.
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I always liked Crusader, a evangical that believed in god so hard it gave him superpowers, and he set out to kill Thor because he was a pagan god
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Charred Knight

Charred Knight

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Slayven said:
You forgot the second time them met, where Jesus literally saves his life
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Jim Shooter screwing Tony Isabella by rewriting Ghost Rider to turn Satan into Mephisto and having Jesus Christ not redeem Ghost Rider by explaining that Jesus was another trick by Mephisto is the worse thing Jim Shooter ever did as editor.
 
Zeliard

Zeliard

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MCU would never have a white Yurop play Jesus in the decade of our Lord the 2020s

It'd be someone like Mehdi Dehbi who played Jesus (or did he?) in The Messiah.

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