Argh...after eighteen years...

[Fritz]

...I just got one of James Van Hise's jokes.

Now's RGB Vol.1 #3:

The Ghostbusters are contacted by Ellis Johnson of Choate Chemical, who wants them to quietly investigate the swamp monster that broke into the Choate lab the night before. They journey to the dying town of Horstingville, and are met by Johnson and Choate's cheif chemist, Doctor Diable. Venkman, after being coated in a hundred pounds of peanut butter, serves as a decoy to draw out the swamp monsters. They're after HOS92, the secret invention Diablo has created: formula to turn dead soldiers into warriors! The earth spirit controlling the monsters agrees to leave after taking all of the HOS92.
In return for a promise not to manufacture any more HOS92, the Ghostbusters agree not to tell anyone about the horrific work. Egon sternly warns Johnson that his "government contacts" will tell him if they break their word...

I was looking through some of my DC Millenium Editions (reprints of some of their keystone issues, the only way anyone like me could claim to own a copy of Detective Comics #27 ) and came across one that hit me like a lightning bolt...

RGB#3 featured shambling swamp monsters.

House of Secrets#92

The first appearance of Swamp Thing.

House Of Secrets #92

Argh...

[Miss Janine]

Hey, I didn't know it WAS a joke.

[ghostdiva]

lol. I do that sometimes. Especially with the titles of the eps. A majority of them are the names of actual movies. Also, I seem to hear a lot of the 'real' stories of many of the villians in EGB. Like Lilith in "A Temporary Insanity' I found that quite telling.
ghostdiva

[Fritz]

missjanine said:

Hey, I didn't know it WAS a joke.

I didn't either until I found that comic. I abbreviate books when I file them, and when I wrote the abbreviation for House of Secrets #92--HOS92--I went "Wait a f***ing minute..."

[Kingpin]

admin said:

missjanine said:

Hey, I didn't know it WAS a joke.

I didn't either until I found that comic. I abbreviate books when I file them, and when I wrote the abbreviation for House of Secrets #92--HOS92--I went "Wait a f***ing minute..."

Heh, the mark of a good author (Or bad one, depending on how you look at it) is when they write stuff which you still discover or work out years after buying the thing it was mentioned in.

Sly work by Mr. Hise... but then, knowing our own community's ficcers' penchant for mixing in hidden references in codes and such... it isn't a huge surprise. ;D

[ECTO-1]

Looks like I got me an FYI to add next week.

[Fritz]

ecto1 said:

Looks like I got me an FYI to add next week.

Lol...I kept meaning to suggest that.