Plot
Set six months after the events of the original film, the story opens in the aftermath of the Ghostbusters' defeat of Gozer in its sixty-foot Stay Puft Marshmallow Man form. The team saved Dana Barrett and the city, and were briefly celebrated as heroes. With their fame now fading, Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore are settling back into routine ghost-hunting work out of the Firehouse, with Janine Melnitz and Louis Tully supporting.
Covers
The issue was released with six original covers, plus a second printing:
- Regular Cover: Art by Steve Kurth, Serge LaPointe, and Blond
- Variant Painted Cover: Featuring Peter Venkman, painted by Dan Brereton
- Retailer Incentive Cover: Featuring the No Ghost logo printed in ultraviolet inks
- Graham Crackers Comics Exclusive (limited to 1,000 copies): Featuring Peter Venkman and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
- Toyzz Exclusive (limited to 1,000 copies): Featuring Vinz Clortho
- Second Printing: Cover featuring Ecto-1
The large number of variants was cited as a point of controversy among readers and collectors at the time.
Cast and Appearances
Characters
Equipment
Locations
- The Firehouse (Ghostbusters headquarters)
- Albany Psychological Corrections Facility
Continuity Notes and Trivia
- The story is a retcon that re-sets the timeline to 2004, twenty years after the original 1984 film, rather than treating the movie as a period piece.
- Page 3: A newspaper clipping references Nostradamus. A guard mentions Elvis.
- Page 4: Peter references Gozer by name.
- Page 5: A character named Corkie mentions the island of Ibiza, Bob Marley, and Richard Nixon. Peter mentions Cameron Diaz. Ray's name tag is misspelled "Stanz."
- Page 6: Peter notes Winston shaved his mustache, but the newspaper photograph of the post-Gozer battle already shows Winston without a mustache, an in-panel continuity error.
- Page 7: Winston's name tag is misspelled "Zedemore."
- Page 9: The Containment Unit and Firehouse basement are drawn to match the animated version seen in The Real Ghostbusters rather than the film version. Winston compares a Class 2 Free Floater the team captured to his nephew.
- Page 10: Janine mentions the Amanita Rubescens (a species of mushroom). Egon reveals he has moved from a fungus hobby to a coral hobby.
- Page 11: Egon states he prefers free diving over scuba because he does not believe in compressed air.
- Page 15: Peter mentions the Twilight Zone.
- Page 16: The Subway Ghost from the first film makes an appearance.
- Page 17: Peter uses Ray's "Francine" nickname.
- Page 23: Egon and Ray discuss Einstein.
Publication History
The intended release schedule placed Legion #1 in February 2004, but the actual release date was April 7, 2004. The full series ran four issues, with a planned ongoing monthly series and a hardcover trade paperback collection that were ultimately never published. UK publisher Titan Books later released a softcover trade paperback of the series.
See the Ghostbusters: Legion series page for full publication history, including the cancelled ongoing and the Titan Books paperback.
References
- Ghostbusters: Legion #1 (88MPH Studios, April 2004). Story by Andrew Dabb, art by Steve Kurth.
- Ghostbusters 88MPH Studios Comics series overview (Fandom wiki corpus).
