NOW Comics: Issue 7 PDF
Issue 7: March 1989
The Lunar Avenger and the Crimson Crimebuster, two super heroes from the 1930s Crime Patrol team, have suddenly come out of retirement and appeared on the Ghostbusters’ doorstep. With the Crimebuster in the hospital, The Avenger tells them about the return of their old foe, Fu Fang, who has teamed up with Caldoni’s ghost mob. They’ve been discreetly taking over the city under the Ghostbusters’ noses. The Ghostbusters decide to help and take the turf war to Caldoni under the guise of a rival mob. But even when the mob is taken care of, they still have to deal with Fu Fang!
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Rich aka Spengs
NOW Comics: Issue 6 PDF
Issue 6: February 1989
A group of ghosts take over a low-rated TV station, and the Ghostbusters are hired by the station manager to deal with the problem. The Ghostbusters arrive to find an Egyptian motif inside the station and a horde of ghosts ready to fight them. If that wasn’t enough, they also come face-to-face with The Nameless One again! Ghosts, Mummies and bad reruns…could this mean cancellation for the Ghostbusters?
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Rich aka Spengs
Kenner The Real Ghostbusters ID Card
If my newer Kenner The Real Ghostbusters ID card hadn’t been misplaced or lost I would have scanned it and included it with the Kenner Proton Pack instructions. Just because I don’t have mine to share doesn’t mean an original scan doesn’t exist or even that their aren’t faithful recreations.
Last December ghosthead gEkX found his The Real Ghostbusters ID card in a folder with other stuff from when he was a kid. His card had age to it and his childhood information on it. Using his original card and an alternate source I’ve cleaned it up a little bit to re-share and post.
An updated version based off the original I believe was created by ghosthead Gh0stbuster I think in recent years. Unfortunately today I can’t find his Devant Art page or another page of his, if one exists. If he or someone else who is reading this knows how I can properly credit him, please leave a comment below. If he didn’t create it and you know the original source please let me know in the comments as well. I used what I believe is Gh0stbuster’s blank ID information to replace gEkX’s.
Inspired by the Kenner ID scan provided by gEkX, ghosthead btnkdrms made his version of The Real Ghostbusters ID card.
Rich aka Spengs
Credits: gEkX, Gh0stbuster, btnkdrms
Kenner Instructions: Proton Pack
Normally I’m one of those toy collectors who would rather have sealed/mint in box or mint on card toys which I don’t open and enjoy in adulthood by display. There are exceptions depending on circumstances or if it was one of my favorite toys. Kenner’s Proton Pack with P.K.E Meter is one of those toys. When I won my Kenner proton pack from a popular internet auction site it had been open in years past. It included the instructions and that gave me the idea that if I’m brave enough to open my sealed The Real Ghostbusters toys I’ll scan them to share with Kenner and the Ghostbusters community. To the best of my knowledge I haven’t or rarely seen these instructions on-line at all or for free.
My original pack instructions were pretty aged. I’ve cleaned them up and tried to make them look as new as possible. Their are still imperfections. To correct the aged imperfections it may take a graphics tablet which I don’t have.
Kenner’s Proton Pack instructions are 6 png files. A separate file includes the proton pack decals. Their isn’t a RGB ID card because although it was suppose to be included, through an oversight or because it had gone missing Kenner’s original wasn’t in the open box. A reason why I prefer to buy mint in box toys.
Rich aka Spengs
NOW Comics: Issue 5 PDF
Issue 5: January 1989
Three “ninjas” are loose on the city and committing robberies. The catch: they’re using a werewolf! The NYPD contacts the Ghostbusters for help just as the thieves hit the Natural History Museum, taking a mummy unearthed with King-Tut. The Ghostbusters face off with the wolf at the scene, managing to free it of the collar keeping it under the ninjas’ control. The Ghostbusters get a surprise when Irene, the werewolf’s human form, appears at their doorstep asking for their help!
All NOW c o m i c s are also linked in our Media section.
Rich aka Spengs
Ectocontaining In Mexico
Rolando Muñoz aka Ghostbusters213 in the ghosthead community recently let me know via Twitter @ectocontainment that he has been enjoying reading the NOW c o m i c s on his iPad. What I thought was a tweet and a RT from me turned into support from Rolando.
Rolando also runs Ghostbusters Mexico, a Ghostbusters news and community site. He wanted to and is linking back to Ectocontainment™. That would have been appreciated enough, he wrote a blog entry about me, more about the NOW comics, and is promoting the comic pages.
In addition to being pretty much the only ghosthead in Mexico I kinda know, Rolando is a talented artist who has drawn Ghostbusters fan art. He didn’t ask me to say anything about it, as an artist too who never quite mastered how to draw people I wanted to bring attention to his work.
Check his site out and if you don’t read Spanish (because you stopped after 10th grade) most browsers can translate for you.
Feel free to follow Rolando aka Ghostbusters213 on Twitter @Ghostbusters213.
Rich aka Spengs