Creation

Fantasma debuts canonically in Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special (2024) in the short story "A Fantasmic Roller Derby Adventure" by Melissa Flores and Jan Bazaldua. She originally appeared on a variant cover for Ghost Rider in October 2023 drawn by Luciano Vecchio. This cover was part of the "New Champions" variants depicting original sidekicks for Marvel's title characters.

Major Storyline

New Champions

During one of her roller derby matches, magic birds from Hellrune swarmed Fantasma, transporting her to a Norse zombie infested forest with a number of other teen heroes. Hellrune had cast a spell to move her team, the New Champions, to her location, but it grabbed a few more teen heroes, styled as if they were sidekicks even though they weren't.

While everyone else was fighting, Hellrune was drawn away by a voice belonging to her sorceress aunt. She was freed from her prison by Hellrune and then helped Runie tap into her magic potential ending the viking zombie horde. In the aftermath, Liberty extends membership to all the teens that were teleported there, but only a few accepted communicators for future meet ups, including Fantasma who thought the fight was a lot of fun.

Spirit of Violence

Practicing her teleporting, Fantasma found herself transported to the God Quarry. There she met Robbie Reyes, who had been trapped in the quarry since his tenure as an Avenger. He hoped Fantasma would be able to help him escape since he could sense a threat targeting the other Spirits of Vengeance. One of their attempts finally worked, and the two Spirits arrived just in time to save Danny Ketch from the Spirit of Violence, who had bonded to Danny's dead sister, Barbara, knocking her into a nearby river, washing her away.

Reyes and Fantasma were looking for the Blight Blade, but they found Danny, its previous user, instead. While discussing their next move, they are attacked by Necrosis, the Spirit of Corruption bonded to the Bright Blade. He was under the control of Corruption, the creator of Necrosis and the Spirit of Violence. He sent Necrosis and an army of hellfire robots after the Spirits that would stand in their way. Luckily, they got help from Badilino and Daken, who was answering the call for hellfire backup. With the Necrosis and his army defeated, they took possession of the Blight Blade to use against Spirit of Violence.

Together, Fantasma and the other spirits tracked down Johnny Blaze, who was being tortured by Corruption and her followers. Corruption had separated Blaze from both his Spirit of Vengeance and the Rider. Kushala could sense the spell and used it on her team, allowing Fantasma and her Spirit of Vengeance to fight as two beings. Ultimately, Danny Ketch used the Blight Blade to kill Barbara and himself. Without Barbara, Corruption faded back to her hell world.