Issue(s): Marvel Two-In-One #80
Cover Date: Oct 81
Title: "Call him... monster!"
Credits:
Tom DeFalco - Writer
Ron Wilson - Penciler
Chic Stone - Inker

Review/plot:
This one starts off really crazy. Reed has designed an insane exercise machine for the Thing where a heavy block of wall repeatedly slams into him. It shakes the whole building, destroying all of Alicia's sculptures. She wanders into the exercise room, which doesn't even have a door, to figure out what's going on, and is nearly killed. Nice lack of safety precautions with a blind lady in the building!

Then the Thing runs into the Ghost Rider, who's become a lot more demonic and unhinged since the last time they met.

Despite clearly being a danger to himself and others...

...the Thing helps GR get out of town.

I like how there's been a seemingly coordinated effort in books where Ghost Rider has guest appeared - Marvel Team-Up #91, Defenders #96, here, and soon Avengers #214 - to emphasize the fact that he's become more of a demonic character.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Ghost Rider's appearance in New York this issue doesn't fit into any logical trajectory from his solo book, so i've just let it fall at publication date. I figure Johnny Blaze gets around.

References:

• The Thing and Ghost Rider met back in Marvel Two-In-One #8.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Adventures of the Thing #2