Ray Stantz

Ray Stantz is one of the four founding Ghostbusters, a paranormal investigator and enthusiast who helps operate the ghost-catching team alongside Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore, appearing in IDW crossovers including team-ups with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

A crossover fixture with serious cult appeal, Ray Stantz made his comics debut in Larry Welz's Cherry #13 in 1995 and has since turned up in some genuinely fun IDW team-up territory, sharing pages with the likes of Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, and even Donatello and Raphael across titles like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Ghostbusters 2 and Ghostbusters: Times Scare! With a presence stretching from the mid-Copper Age all the way to 2020, he's a character whose comic-book footprint is modest but memorable — the kind of name that makes a longtime reader smile when they spot him tucked into an unexpected corner of the page.