Characters
Haunted America Part Three: Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, Kylie Griffin, Special Agent Jim Savage, Special Agent Melanie Ortiz, Roswell Army Ghosts.
Who Killed Laura Parr? Part Three: Peter Venkman, Laura Parr, Phantom Truck Driver.
Covers
Cover A
Cover B
Incentive Cover
Cover artists for this issue include Dan Schoening, Luis Antonio Delgado, Tristan Jones, Mike Henderson, Mickey Clausen, and Peter Zaragoza.1 Cover B features an elaborate ROSWELL letter design, with ghost characters from across the Ghostbusters franchise hidden within each letter (see Trivia below).
Development
On February 7, 2012, Tristan Jones tweeted that a cover was done, and confirmed its approval on February 8. On February 13, 2012, Jones confirmed that Cover B's letter artwork includes the Vampiric Alien Ghost from the RGB episode "Spacebusters," The Creature from "Ain't NASA-Sarily So," the ghost from "Big Trouble With Little Slimer," the Slug from NOW Comics Real Ghostbusters Volume 1 Issue #2, and the Tourist Alien from the Slimer! episode "Space Case."
On April 12, 2012, Erik Burnham tweeted that he had an idea for "a federal agent in #11 that will rub Egon the wrong way," referring to the character who became Special Agent Jim Savage.
On June 4, 2012, Tristan Jones posted a panel from "Who Killed Laura Parr?" Part Three. On June 12, 2012, Jones posted a colored version of that panel by Luis Delgado, and hinted that Dan Schoening may have slipped in an X-Files reference.
On July 23, 2012, a preview featuring the cover, credits, and first seven pages was posted. On July 27, 2012, Luis Delgado posted unlettered versions of page 9 and a page from the backup story.
On July 31, 2013, Dan Schoening posted a walkthrough entry on page one, showing the art process behind the Haunted America pages.
Trivia
Cover B letter breakdown:
- The R contains Slimer chomping on a postcard and the Vampiric Alien Ghost from "Spacebusters"
- The O, W, and L contain The Creature from "Ain't NASA-Sarily So"
- The S contains the ghost from the B.U.F.O. Facility in "Big Trouble With Little Slimer"
- The E contains the Slug from NOW! Comics The Real Ghostbusters Volume 1, Issue #2
- The last L contains the Tourist Alien from the Slimer! episode "Space Case"
Page-by-page references:
- Page 1: The alien spacecraft on the first panel is from the 1980s ABC series "The Greatest American Hero." The three civilians accosted by ghosts are Harry Block, Wayne Grey, and Dr. Reed from the Ivan Reitman-directed film "Evolution." The 1947 Roswell incident is noted to have occurred in July.
- Page 2: Winston Zeddemore uses an Extreme Ghostbusters version of the PKE Meter. Several RGB gadgets appear on the blankets, including the Silver Iodide Device from "The Man Who Never Reached Home," the Sub-etheric Multichannel Differential Analyzer from "The Grundel," and Egon's Inflatable Raft from "Camping It Up." Egon Spengler uses the Multifunction Device from "Sticky Business."
- Page 4: Special Agent Jim Savage is visually based on Mulder from the X-Files franchise. Luis Delgado's recurring page 15 easter egg appears on the back of the SUV.
- Page 5: Peter is dressed as Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) from "Caddyshack," while Winston is dressed like his animated counterpart from "Night Game." Peter mentions Walter Peck. Egon references the First Law of Thermodynamics.
- Page 10: "A galaxy far, far away" references the Star Wars opening crawl. An example of Symmetrical Bookstacking (from the first film and Ghostbusters: The Video Game) appears in one of the rows. The science symposium pinned paper is headlined by Oswald Spengler and Egon Donsbach, the two real-world figures who inspired Egon Spengler's name. Donsbach was a classmate of Harold Ramis at Senn High School.2 Fliers outside Ray's Occult Books reference three RGB episodes: "Adventures in Slime and Space," "Ain't NASA-Sarily So," and "Guess What's Coming to Dinner."
- Page 11: Symmetrical Bookstacking appears again. A stylized version of Azetlor appears on the Bookworm poster. Vigo's entry from "Magicians, Martyrs And Madmen" (seen in Ghostbusters II) is on the computer screen. The TV subtitle references Kirk's famous line from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The shelf sign shows 1984 and 1989, the release years of both Ghostbusters films.
- Page 12: The cabinet label "Dr. Nick Winters" references the SNL character Nick The Lounge Singer (Bill Murray), known for the infamous "Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars..." performance. "Montauk" on the shelf references the alleged Montauk Project. "I-Beam" references the mysterious symbol-covered metal poles reportedly found at the 1947 Roswell crash site.
- Page 13: A Terror Dog appears reflected in Ecto-1a's window behind Peter.
- Page 16: One of the soldier ghosts appears visually based on Big Ben, a zombie soldier from the 1986 film "House."
- Page 19: The Belda'r Cafe stands in for the now-defunct Cover-Up Cafe. The cafe name references Belda'r, a character portrayed by Dan Aykroyd in the Coneheads SNL sketches and movie; "Consume Mass Quantities" is a Belda'r quote. The 3-eyed happy face is from "Evolution." The two men walking outside the cafe are Ralph Hinkley and Special Agent Bill Maxwell from "The Greatest American Hero." Also visible at the bar is Paul Rudoff of Spook Central, drawn in likeness by Dan Schoening as a tribute to the Ghostbusters fansite and its webmaster.3
- Page 20: Signs outside the cafe reference the toy Fearsome Flush and the RGB episode "Ain't NASA-sarily So." Agent Ortiz mentions Las Vegas, New Mexico (located in San Miguel County).
- Page 22: Peter's line about being "a TV guy" references his role as host of "The World of the Psychic."
- Page 26: The Particle Thrower resembles the version seen in The Real Ghostbusters animated series.
The credits pages of Ghostbusters: Spectral Shenanigans Volume 1 reuse panel 4 of Issue #11 page 14.
Will-o-the-Wisps are mentioned in this issue. Their first mention in Burnham's run was in Ghostbusters: Infestation #1.
Comic
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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Ghostbusters #11 (IDW Publishing, July 25, 2012). Writer: Erik Burnham (main story), Tristan Jones (backup); Pencils: Dan Schoening; Colors: Luis Antonio Delgado; Letters: Neil Uyetake; Editor: Tom Waltz. ISBN 978-1-61479-495-0. Diamond order code MAY120397.
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"Egon Spengler," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Spengler. Citing the Ghostbusters (1984) DVD audio commentary.
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Spook Central, "Spook Central Webmaster, Paul Rudoff, Appears In Ghostbusters Comic Book" (July 20, 2012), https://www.spookcentral.us/2012/07/20/spook-central-paul-ghostbusters-comic.
