Does anyone have a pdf or text for article about censorship of the real ghostbusters that J. Michael Straczynski published in the June 1991 issue of Penthouse? I’ve always wanted to read it but can’t find it online.
Seconded, sounds interesting!
https://mobile.twitter.com/straczynski/status/984331545140850688?lang=enI
Here’s reference to it on his twitter. I get the feeling the best place to ask would be a vintage pornography forum, though I wonder how’d they react to someone requesting a scan of an article instead of a pictorial?
You can buy the magazine on ebay or Amazon
I’m not sure how I can explain that to my wife… seriously though I don’t need another thing laying around I’ll never look at again. I wonder if I can buy a digital version from the publisher?
Theres a bunch on eBay, probably should do is message them and see if anyone would take a picture of the article and email it for a few bucks.. “make offer” yeah it’s not a magazine I want laying around or buy just to read a couple of paragraphs. It being 30 years old, don’t think company even exist anymore. Probably easier to find someone who owns it, then the publisher
This is something I’ll always find a little hilarious, industry professionals penning articles for skin rags to somehow make them more ‘legitimate’.
Though I would be interested in reading the article in question.
It would be cool to read. Good luck with your Penthouse pet project.
I recall that the most prominent victim of this censorship was « The Collect Call of Cathulhu » which nearly never made it due to bigotery.
I recall that in France, they renamed the ancient god « belzebuth »…but kept all the « cathulhu » prayers
Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral was butchered because the wild west ghosts couldn’t have guns, dispite earlier epidodes showing ghosts and living police with firearms.
Well, in France and Belgium, one of the most popular comic characters of the 50’s-60’s, Spirou, was in the hands of a rather bigot editor.
In one book, the main characters get chased by gangsters holding guns in the hands.
The Editor ordered the guns to be erased, but as a sign of protest, the artist kept the hands as they were. So you see the hands closed as if they were holding a ghost gun haha
Playboy legitimately had terrific interviews and articles. I’ve purchased 4 Playboy magazines in my life. 3 of them were for the articles. One of the greatest interviews with Stanley Kubrick was done for Playboy.
Heck in the 1960s/70s Playboy was on the forefront of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s they were reporting on the HIV/Aides epidemic before most people had even heard the term.
I too would love to read JMS’s article.
[quote=RichardLess post_id=4933369 time=1586102383 user_id=47215]Heck in the 1960s/70s Playboy was on the forefront of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s they were reporting on the HIV/Aides epidemic before most people had even heard the term.
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Every day is a school day. I didn’t know that, so cheers for the insight. 
I found a “vintage erotica forum” that has a index of scans and a request sub forum. I’ll see if I can find it there. If the folks over there can help I’ll post the article here.
Every day is a school day. I didn’t know that, so cheers for the insight. 
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I think Harold Ramis did some writing for ■■■■■■■ when he was just starting out.
Good idea. I let Paul Rudoff of Spook Central know and if he finds one, he’ll make scans of the article, too.
[quote=Bison256 post_id=4933395 time=1586137605 user_id=52149]I think Harold Ramis did some writing for ■■■■■■■ when he was just starting out.
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Yes, I believe that was a job right out of college.
[quote=RichardLess post_id=4933369 time=1586102383 user_id=47215] I’ve purchased 4 Playboy magazines in my life. 3 of them were for the articles.
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Uh um…I liked the..um…advertisements? Yeah! That’s it! The advertisements. Those big huge, massive advertisements. I had never seen a pair of advertisements so big.
All the cigarette, car, video game and music cd ads you could ever want! Ghostbusters shows up a lot in ads and articles in 84 and 85. FYI I found a shady website years ago that had pdfs of almost every issue.
I would just buy the box set on DVD they released. There are interviews on it where JMS goes into great detail of what changes he hated most. One of the main ones he hated was that Janine could not wear a short skirt and that her glasses had to be changed. He found that demand sexist. Be also hated their demand that Slimer had to be the star of the show.
His “Becoming Superman” book goes into some great detail on RGB, as well. Apparently the studio tried to get the Ray character nixed from the show at one point.