Doc Fritz;140993
I think it was mostly because those scenes were taken out of the final cut of the movie. If they had still been in it, I have little doubt the pages would have run in GB2#4.

Fixed that for you.

I'm sure he meant issue 3.

The only problem with that argument is that the Ecto-1A crash is still in the comic, as is Louis nearly zapping Janine.

Aha! I knew I'd read something about it somewhere over the years. Turns out it was a different suburb of this very site:

http://archive.ghostbusters.net/article/50/

The interview is with RGB and GB2 comic writer James Van Hise

JVH: For Ghostbusters II we were given the script, which I just went through and divided up for the mini-series. Not only didn't I see the film until a screening shortly before its official release, but the comic book adaptation included the original ending wherein the Ghostbusters are being given a testimonial by the Mayor of New York in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. That scene was even drawn for the comic book but cut out when 20th Century Fox noticed that we'd actually followed the script! “You can't include this! It's not in the movie!” they said. They'd never bothered telling us the script had been changed until after an artist had been paid to draw the scene. I still have a photocopy of those missing pages around somewhere

(I presume the reference to “20th Century Fox” was an error, and he meant Columbia)

Book and comic adaptations are great ways to see deleted scenes in movies whose DVD releases may not include them. They're given the most final version of the script to work off of, but even then we know in Hollywood movies are changed daily on the set and then some things trimmed out in final editing.