By Paul Rudoff on Jun. 17, 2014 at 10:02 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2

Welcome to Spook Central's special Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Celebration. Today was a big multimedia update for the site. I added 65 still photos to the bottom of the Ghostbusters II Electronic Press Kit page. This should be more than enough to show what's on the EPK.

Pics of Dana in the courtroom before the trial were added to the Ghostbusters II Deleted Scenes page. I really thought I had these on the site already. I also updated/added some images on these Ghostbusters II deleted scenes pages: Ghost Jogger's Lap Time, Television Commercial, Possessed Ray Driving, Louis Is Proton Gun Crazy For Slimer, Louis' Cousin, Sherman Tully, and Sizing Up The Museum Situation.

On the Ghostbusters Deleted Scenes page I added a photo of Janine talking with Egon while he's working on some equipment, and I updated the second and seventh photos on the Pulling Up To Fort Detmerring deleted scene page.

Finally, I present to you the deleted ending to issue #3 of the Now Comics "Ghostbusters II" comic book adaptation, which represents the film's original ending. These four files are courtesy of the late, great Doreen Mulman who once had them on her now-defunct website, the Ghostbusters Fan Forum. According to the GBFF, these were sent to Doreen's RGB Fan Club in 1989. Doreen's friend Alex Newborn uploaded scans of his own copies to GBFans, along with a scan of the letter he received from comic writer James Van Hise. According to Mr. Van Hise, "Although my adaptation of GBII (part 3 enclosed) included the end sequence, Columbia made Now Comics cut it out at the last minute because it wasn't in the movie! Wonder where they were when we did part 2 with the Ectomobile crash scene? So although part 3 in the comic ends on page 26, the art was completely finished for the rest, which is included here in the form it was intended to be published in, although it never will be published, sad to say, so those last 4 pages will never see print." (Copies of Alex's files are also hosted at EctoContainment.)

2 comments

Comment from: Alex [Visitor]

Although my memories are extremely hazy, she and I were penpals of that same era, so it’s possible that hers were copies of mine which I snail-mailed her. Looking at the corners where someone didn’t want to crease the stapled pages, and the way they’re folded into thirds to fit in a regular envelope, it would be very consistent with my methods. She might have been in correspondence with James Van Hise as well, of course, but he always mailed things out in the larger page-sized envelopes so he didn’t have to fold. Sigh… the melancholy part is, I’m still adjusting to her being gone. My first instinct was to pop over to Facebook and message her.

Jun. 23, 2014 @ 08:07

Comment from: Louche [Visitor]

Well, criminy I was confused by the abrupt ending and the lack of louis there.
Now it all makes sense! That was a really dumb decision.

Sep. 15, 2017 @ 04:35