Television Crossover Universe

  Rutland Vermont has an annual Halloween Parade , the longest running annual Halloween Parade in America .  It started in 1960.  It was founded by Tom Fagen .  While in the past it had a very strong superhero theme , this year's parade seemed to focus more on Ghostbusters and The Nightmare Before Christmas .   The parade was very well known and popular among comic creators in the 1970s and 1980s who would travel from New York City to attend the parade.  They would feature the parade in their stories, for both Marvel and DC, and usually show people in costumes from their competitors in those stories, as well as putting themselves and their friends in the stories.  Tom Fagen would often appear in the stories as well.  Tom usually dressed as Batman in the parades, but in Marvel Comics he would be drawn dressed at Nighthawk .   The first appearance of the parade was in Avengers # 83 , December 1970. In 1972, it appeared in a three p...

 Some spoilers, will be mentioning the new Flash movie and Spider-Verse. The TVCU was created based on the idea of a shared reality based on crossovers.  And it still is.   However, in recent years, films and television have been embracing the multiverse concept. From the beginning, the TVCU has used the multiverse concept.  We had the Looniverse for cartoons that don't fit in a "real world", like funny talking animals.  We had the TVCU-2 for reboots.  We had a mirror universe.   The TVCU has also had a concept that it happens the way we see it on the screen.  So when things are shown to be in the same reality, we accept that.   And I tried to cram things in sometimes, like putting all the versions of Superman in one timeline.   But the film and television industry have shown me a new way.   We know now that Ghostbusters and Real Ghostbusters are alternate timelines.  We know that every version of the T...

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Updated: Jun 24, 2026 Ghostbusters: After The Call! A Composite Timeline positing various Ghostbusters properties,  as set in a single Universe by Kevin Heim Notes highlighted in  Yellow  are recent additions to the timeline . Behind the scenes,  GHOSTBUSTERS  began as  THE GHOST BUSTERS , a Filmation Saturday Morning live action show in 1975. It lasted one season. Even THAT wasn't the first use of the term, though. In 1952, RKO Pictures made a comedy short called THE GHOST BUSTER , which had no genuine supernatural elements (and really, not much comedy, either). Before this, there were Ghost Chasers, Ghost Breakers, Ghost-Finders, Ghost Exterminators, Ghost Catchers, and Spook Busters, so the over-all concept was well established before Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, and Harold Ramis decided to make their supernatural spectacle. The more well-known 1984 Columbia movie  GHOSTBUSTERS  borrowed the title from Filmation...