IDW Publishing Comics- Tainted Love is the second one shot in a series of holiday-themed Ghostbusters comic books by IDW Publishing.
Plot[]
Love is in the air - literally! - as Winston befriends an attractive woman with a ghostly problem in her apartment. But trapping the love-struck apparition proves to be more complicated than the Ghostbusters originally thought. Can Winston step up and save the day? Just how far will Peter go to find a date? And do Ray and Egon ever stop to think about girls, or is it always about trans-dimensional ectoplasmic anomalies with those two? [1]
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Wannabe St. Valentines Day Massacre ghosts
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Summary[]
After defeating gang ghosts at a local high school, Winston sits down and meets Tiyah Clarke, a substitute teacher. She tells of a ghost haunting her apartment. Winston then makes it his mission to rid the ghost from her place.
Trivia[]
- On page 1, Slimer appears as part of the Tainted Love logo.
- The Wannabe ghosts mention Al Capone (who appeared on The Real Ghostbusters), The Five Families, and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
- The Five Families are the top five Italian-America mafia families in New York.
- The St. Valentine's Day Massacre is an event in 1929 which involved the murder of seven people and a conflict between Al Capone and Bugsy Moran.
- On Page 8, Egon suggests the ghost is a Gatekeeper, a reference to Zuul from the first film.
- On Page 8, Ray mentions Gozer.
- On Page 10, Ray mentions he used the Occult Reference Net to research the ghost and Clarke's apartment. The net was previously used on Ghostbusters II.
- The title page for this story in the Haunted Holidays Trade Paperback places the events taking place on a Sunday.
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