Who Is Ghost? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Ghost is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of John Morley, with over 232 comic issue appearances. Ghost is an industrial saboteur and mercenary who possesses an incredible stealth suit that grants him invisibility and intangibility, among other capabilities.

Who is Ghost?

Origin Ghost out of costume The Ghost operates as a freelance industrial saboteur who seeks to destroy what he sees as corrupt corporations, and may have been a businessman himself at one point in the past. According to Ghost himself, he was once a very promising data engineer for a major computer corporation, and the brainchild behind GhostTech, a new series of computer chips that phased into an intangible state before overheating, yet could still function in this state and hold an incredible amount of data. The prized employee of this company, its executives used his genius to make themselves exceptionally wealthy, spurring his continued productivity with everything from sports tickets to sexual favors from another employee. When the GhostTech project was finally completed, they had his lover killed after she threatened to reveal how the company made her into a call girl for their benefit, causing him to slid into a deep depression. As a result, he eventually infused his body with GhostTech and formed a cyberpathic connection with the company's systems in order to become more productive and escape the traumas of the real world, discovering the woman's murder in the process. Survi.

Key facts

Ghost is of human origin and first appeared in "Ghost Story". The character is published by Marvel. With 232 recorded issue appearances, Ghost ranks among the most featured characters in comics.