Doctor Strange/The Punisher: Magic Bullets, Issue #3 teases a Phantom Eagle appearance in the beginning with a backstory based on Ghost Rider, Issue #121. But neither Ghost Rider nor Phantom Eagle appears, only the latter's World War I biplane and its big gun, which the Punisher soon is carrying around the streets of New York. See, magic has been weakened because a bunch of aliens called EMPIRIKUL have taken magic away from the Earth, forcing Doctor Strange to use magic artifacts instead of magic itself.
I'm beginning to see the structure of this four-issue, 120-page team up. Every story has a point where it all goes south or all starts to get better about 2/3 of the way in (61.8% of the way in, according to the Golden Mean). Think of the end of The Empire Strikes Back, for instance. Han goes into the carbonite, Luke gets his hand cut off, and Vader turns out to be Luke's father. The structure of this particular story has the peak a little late, at the end of the third of four issues, but it's there.
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