GHOST-DUSTERS

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
dir: Ivan Reitman

GHOST-DUSTERS
MAD #253, March 1985
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Sam Viviano

Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) are three science professors asked by the New York Public Library to investigate paranormal activity. When they return to the university where they work, they are terminated for practicing bogus science and start business for themselves as Ghostbusters in an abandoned firehouse. Their first job is to look at a something haunting a hotel.

With their equipment they find the ghost, and after it slimes them and they trash the hotel, they catch and trap it. Meanwhile, Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver), a resident in a building overlooking Central Park, notices strange goings-on in her apartment and consults the Ghostbusters. Peter Venkman investigates while also making moves on her. Later, she agrees to a date with him and when he meets her she becomes possessed by a spirit in the building and claims to be the Gatekeeper seeking the Keymaster. Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) is her neighbor across the hall who has a crush on her, and he too becomes possessed by a spirit and claims to be the Keymaster.

The main plot point, is not used in this parody, in which an agent from the EPA shuts their business down, also shutting down the machine where they trap all the ghosts they've caught throughout the movie, letting them all loose throughout the city. The Ghostbusters are arrested for having a fraudulent business, and while in jail study a map of the Central Park building. They discover it was designed as a conduit for Gozer, master of the Gatekeeper and Keymaster that were possessing Dana and Louis, and the one wreaking havoc on the city with ghosts. The Ghostbusters are eventually sprung by the city as the only hope of retrapping the ghosts. Gozer has now taken the form of corporate mascot the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man which is 200 feet tall and attacking the city ala Godzilla.

Also not used are Annie Potts as their secretary and Ernie Hudson, who gets hired later as the fourth Ghostbuster.

This was not used on the cover in the U.S. but was for the German edition.

THE GUEST-DUSTERS
Cracked #249, November 1989
w & a: Pat Boyette

The logo was just as popular as the movie. Newsweek parodied it on their cover, for one example.

Harvey Comics tried to sue, claiming their logo was appropriating their character Fatso.

You don't think the porn industry would ignore a successful movie, do you?

UPDATE:
Cover for Australian version of MAD.