# JMS's article about religious censorship of real ghostbusters **URL:** \ **Category:** Ghostbusters Cartoons\ **Created:** [April 3, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553 "2020-04-03T13:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/bison256/32/186112_2.png) [@bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bison256)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/1 "2020-04-03T13:54:18Z")
Does anyone have a pdf or text for article about censorship of [the real ghostbusters](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/games/the-real-ghostbusters-activison) that [J. Michael Straczynski](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/people/j-michael-straczynski) published in the June 1991 issue of Penthouse? I’ve always wanted to read it but can’t find it online. ---
**Author:** ![chicken-he-clucked](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/chicken-he-clucked/32/187837_2.png) [@chicken-he-clucked](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/chicken-he-clucked)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/2 "2020-04-03T14:40:31Z")
Seconded, sounds interesting! ---
**Author:** ![bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/bison256/32/186112_2.png) [@bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bison256)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/3 "2020-04-03T21:58:49Z")
[https://mobile.twitter.com/straczynski/status/984331545140850688?lang=enI](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? ---
**Author:** ![ccv66](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/ccv66/32/123692_2.png) [@ccv66](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/ccv66)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/4 "2020-04-03T22:25:31Z")
You can buy the magazine on ebay or Amazon ---
**Author:** ![bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/bison256/32/186112_2.png) [@bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bison256)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/5 "2020-04-03T22:45:52Z")
> [@ccv66 post\_id=4933305 time=1585952731 user\_id=46724](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![ccv66](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/ccv66/32/123692_2.png) [@ccv66](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/ccv66)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/6 "2020-04-03T23:03:28Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/188026_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/7 "2020-04-04T14:38:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Coover5](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Coover5](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Coover5)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/8 "2020-04-04T16:47:42Z")
It would be cool to read. Good luck with your Penthouse pet project. ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/9 "2020-04-05T10:19:10Z")
I recall that the most prominent victim of this censorship was « [The Collect Call of Cathulhu](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/real-ghostbusters/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​😂 ---
**Author:** ![bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/bison256/32/186112_2.png) [@bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bison256)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/10 "2020-04-05T12:44:18Z")
> [@greg post\_id=4933352 time=1586081950 user\_id=51562](#): > > 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](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/real-ghostbusters/ghost-fight-at-the-OK-corral) was butchered because the wild west ghosts couldn’t have guns, dispite earlier epidodes showing ghosts and living police with firearms. ---
**Author:** ![greg](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/greg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/11 "2020-04-05T13:59:11Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![RichardLess](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@RichardLess](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/RichardLess)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/12 "2020-04-05T15:59:43Z")
> [@Kingpin post\_id=4933322 time=1586011092 user\_id=76](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/188026_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/13 "2020-04-05T16:50:23Z")
[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. [/quote] Every day is a school day. I didn’t know that, so cheers for the insight. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/bison256/32/186112_2.png) [@bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bison256)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/14 "2020-04-06T01:46:45Z")
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. > [@Kingpin post\_id=4933372 time=1586105423 user\_id=76](#): > > [quote=RichardLess post\_id=4933369 time=1586102383 user\_id=47215]Heck in the 1960s/70s ■■■■■■■ 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. Every day is a school day. I didn’t know that, so cheers for the insight. 🙂 [/quote] I think [Harold Ramis](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/people/harold-ramis) did some writing for ■■■■■■■ when he was just starting out. ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/188045_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/15 "2020-04-06T06:18:53Z")
> [@Bison256 post\_id=4933395 time=1586137605 user\_id=52149](#): > > 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. Good idea. I let Paul Rudoff of [Spook Central](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/fans/websites/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](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/people/harold-ramis) did some writing for ■■■■■■■ when he was just starting out. [/quote] Yes, I believe that was a job right out of college. ---
**Author:** ![alex-newborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/alex-newborn/32/4017_2.png) [@alex-newborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/alex-newborn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/16 "2020-04-12T20:25:24Z")
[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. [/quote] And the fourth one? AN ---
**Author:** ![RichardLess](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@RichardLess](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/RichardLess)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/17 "2020-04-13T07:24:18Z")
> [@Alex Newborn](#): > > [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. And the fourth one? AN [/quote] 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. ---
**Author:** ![bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/bison256/32/186112_2.png) [@bison256](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/bison256)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/18 "2020-04-13T17:48:04Z")
> [@RichardLess post\_id=4933575 time=1586762658 user\_id=47215](#): > > > [@Alex Newborn](#): > > > > And the fourth one? > > > > AN > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![winston1986](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/winston1986/32/148051_2.png) [@winston1986](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/winston1986)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/19 "2020-04-19T21:16:14Z")
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](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/slimer) had to be the star of the show. ---
**Author:** ![d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/d_osborn/32/179392_2.png) [@d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/d_osborn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553/20 "2020-04-24T15:12:58Z")
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. [Next page](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/jmss-article-about-religious-censorship-of-real-ghostbusters/13553.md?page=2)