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Radioactive Man #100  (Dec 2000) Bongo unearths another mighty adventure from its archives-this time from 1963. The mayor of Zenith City digs up a time capsule to celebrate the city's centennial, only to discover a gigantic robotic cowboy gunning for...Radioactive Man! But where is Radioactive Man when he is needed? Find out as Radioactive Man returns with a vengeance in this new quarterly series from you friends at Bongo. Comic Shop Sequence MMMMMMMMPages:  5 Script:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Bill Morrison Inks:  Steve Steere, Jr. Colors, Letters:  Chris Ungar 1963 Sequence   Anomaly of the Automaton That Ran Amok!   Anomaly of the Automaton That Ran Amok!  Chapter Two   Anomaly of the Automaton That Ran Amok!  Chapter Three MMMMMMMMPages:  21 Script:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Hilary Barta Inks:  Bob Smith Colors:  Nathan Kane Letters:  Chris Ungar   Superior Squad #18  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1     Appears after the first chapter and before Chapter Two above.   Fallout Shelter!  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1   You Can Become An Amazing New "He"-Man   Riphoffski's Physique Institute  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1   City of the Future  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 Originally from:  Radioactive Man 80pg. Colossal Identical to the faux advertisement that originally appeared in Radioactive Man 80pg. Colossal except the void date has been changed from "Sept. 1968" to "December 31, 1963" to reflect the "prior" date of this issue. Even the price remained unchanged, "five" years "later". MMMMMMMMPages:     Cover Illustration:  Bill Morrison, Mike Rote Orig. Pub Date:  May 1963 Departments:  Ground Zero  (entirely faux letters column) Ground Zero  (real letters column) The "original" Radioactive Man #100 comic replete with cover is within this comic, proceded by the first four pages of the Comic Shop Sequence and followed by the last page of the Comic Shop Sequence and a current Ground Zero letters column.

Radioactive Man #222  (Mar 2001)    Bart Simpson's Favorite Comic Book! It's 1973 and Radioactive Man goes underground to battle student activists and civil unrest as Rod Runtledge (aka Fallout Boy) is taken hostage at a nearby university! But has Fallout Boy dropped out, tuned in, grown a social conscience, and joined the cause? Find out in this trippy tribute to the alternative comics of yesteryear. No One Gets Over the Underground! MMMMMMMMPages:  28 Script / Layouts:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Abel Laxamana Inks:  Bob Smith Letters:  Chris Ungar Colors:  The Teen Color Brigade: Nathan Kane, Karen Bates, Chris Ungar and Art Villanueva Edits:  Bill Morrison Bongo Booster   Extraordinaire:  Matt Groening Joe Muscles Institute  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 Nuclear Power Employment  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 The Bongo B.S. Box! (faux Bongo Beat) Boyoboy, Bang the Bongo Slowly, Baby -- It Can't Be Beat! Join the Coz! Citizens of Zenith! (faux fan club) MMMMMMMMPages:  1     Cover Illustration:  Batton Lash, Bill Morrison, Nathan Kane Departments:  Bongo B.S. Box! (faux), Ground Zero (faux letters) Orig. Pub Date:  Nov 1972

Radioactive Man #136  (June 2001) It's 1966 and the Atomic Avenger must battle his way through would-be assassins, frolicsome beach parties, biker gangs, teen crushes and anti-royalist spies to defend a visiting princess. But the Nuclear Knight and his trusty sidekick, Fallout Boy are about to face the greatest challenge of their crimefighting careers - PROM NIGHT! Legendary artist Dan DeCarlo joins Batton Lash for a bit of Beach Blanket Bongo! From Reinmania with Luv, Baby! The Uncle From M.A.N.N.!  Part II MMMMMMMMPages:  25 Script / Layouts:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Dan DeCarlo Inks:  Bob Smith Letters:  Chris Ungar Colors:  Lee Loughridge Edits:  Bill Morrison Big Kahuna:  Matt Groening Gloria and Gretchen (faux comic advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 Malibu Stacy (faux toy advertisement) E-Z Swipe Magic Art Machine! (faux toy advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1     Cover Illustration:  Batton Lash, Don DeCarlo, Bill Morrison Departments:  Ground Zero  (faux letters), The Bongo Beat Orig. Pub Date:  May 1966 Bongo Beat: A Monopoly on Cool Simpsons and Futurama Collectibles, after plugging Simpsons Monopoly they show the cover and describe the book "Further Adventures in The Simpsons Collectibles" by Robert W. Getz, found on our book list here! This Bongo Beat was also published in Simpsons Comics #59.

Radioactive Man #4  (Oct 2001) The time is April 1953 and the world's nuclear knight has fallen victim to his greatest foe - poor sales! But Morty Mann has a surefire way of saving Bongo from bankruptcy court - combine the most popular comics of the day (the "horror" comics) with his most popular superhero - Radioactive Man! The result is superhorrific! The Amazing Radioactive Spider! MMMMMMMMPages:  14 Writer:  Batton Lash Artist:  Micheal DeCarlo Inker:  Robert Smith Letters:  Christopher Ungar Colors:  Nathan L. Kane Executive Editor:  William Morrison Editor:  Terrance Delegeane CEO:  Matthew Groening Reprinted in:  Radioactive Man #711  (promotional issue) E-Z Entertainer Course  (faux advertisement) "What's Worse Than Being a Skinny Girl?" MMMMMMMMPages:  1 The Thing in my Head! MMMMMMMMPages:  6 Script / Layouts:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Mike DeCarlo Inks:  Murphy Anderson Letters:  Chris Ungar Colors:  Nathan Kane Edits:  Bill Morrison The Beauty Queen from the 21st Century! MMMMMMMMPages:  7 Script / Layouts:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Mike DeCarlo Inks:  Bob Smith Letters:  Karen Bates Colors:  Nathan Kane Edits:  Bill Morrison Nuclear Science Novelties (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1     Cover Illustration:  Bill Morrison, Battan Lash, Nathan Kane Departments:  Ground Zero  (faux letters) Orig. Pub Date:  Mar 1953

Radioactive Man #575  (May 2002)    Bart Simpson's Favorite Comic Book! It's January, 1984. Dr. Bix Bentley of the Superior Squad has devised a plan to free Radioactive Man from the lighting bolt imbedded in his brain once and for all. But the best laid plans of Bug Boy and men often go awry, and a new Radioactive Man is born, and believe us when we tell you, this RM is no boy scout! With Zenith in the midst of a media maelstrom over the new Radioactive Man someone has to put it all back together again....Radioactive Man's alter ego, Claude Kane III! It's a three-part story arc - told in one big issue with a special cover by fan favorite, Howard Chaykin! Don't look Now, but It's 1984! Part 2: Eighty-Sixed in '84! It's 1984...   Do You Know Where Your Secret Identity Is? (conclusion) MMMMMMMMPages:  26 Script:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Mike DeCarlo Inks:  Bob Smith Colors:  Art Villanueva, Rick Reese Letters:  Karen Bates Edits:  Bill Morrison Zenith Confidential MMMMMMMMPages:  1 Inserted within the first story above. Superfluous Products & Expensive Comic Art   from Lou Shrun  (faux advertisement) Fat Tony's Exclusive Distribution, Inc.  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1     Cover Illustration:  Batton Lash, Howard Chaykin Departments:  Bongo Notes (faux editorial), Ground Zero (faux letters) Orig. Pub Date:  Jan 1984 Credits for first story provided as: "Batton Lash & Mike DeCarlo & Bob Smith & Art Villanueva & Rick Reese & Bill Morrison & Karen Bates and Matt Groening proudly present:"

Radioactive Man #106  (Nov 2002) It's 1963, and Radioactive Man has gone INSANE! Why else world he be fighting invisible enemies and causing collateral damage throughout Zenith City? Or perhaps it has something to do with, Dr. Claude Kane II's recent invention "Foreverlution", communists run amok, or the return of one of the Atomic Avenger's greatest foes. Be that as it may, this "key" issue in RM's compendium of classic comics has our Man of the Atom battling dinosaurs! Check out the fully-painted cover by Bongo's golden-boy, Bill Morrison. Go beyond a land that time forgot to a place you'll try to remember! Radioactive Man, Man of Radioactivity: The Hallucinations That Weren't Real  Part I Isle of the Irregular Dinosaurs  Part II MMMMMMMMPages:  26 Script:  Batton Lash, Terry Delegeane Pencils:  Mike DeCarlo Inks:  Bob Smith Colors:  Jason Latour Letters:  Karen Bates Edits:  Bill Morrison Bongo Comics Club News MMMMMMMMPages:  3     Cover Illustration:  Batton Lash, Bill Morrison Departments:  Ground Zero  (faux letters) Orig. Pub Date:  Nov 1963 Credits for first story provided as: "Lash . DeCarlo . Smith . Latour . Bates . Delegeane . Morrison . Groening"

Bongo Super Heroes #7 Starring Radioactive Man   (May 2003) Fantastic-like superheroics abound in this retrospective of relevant reprints spanning the decades from the '40s to the '60s. Radioactive Man's fellow superheroes, The Superior Squadron, take center stage for a battle royale in their ultra-tech Rumpus Room. Captain Squid stretches his tentacles, Plasmo goes on an inter-dimensional shopping spree, and at long last the true origin of Bug Boy is finally told. The Superior Squad in: Risky be the Rumpus Room MMMMMMMMPages:  8 Script:  Jesse McCann Pencils:  Abel Laxamana Inks:  Bob Smith Colors:  Rick Reese Letters:  Karen Bates Editor:  Bill Morrison Reprinted in:  Simpsons Treasure Trove #2  (digest) The Secret Origin of Bug Boy MMMMMMMMPages:  8 Script & Art:  Ty Templeton Colors:  Art Villanueva Letters:  Karen Bates Editor:  Bill Morrison Secret Originator:  Matt Groening Originally     Presented in:  My Date With Bug Boy #7 June 1957 Captain Squid in: A Shrimp in Time Pays Fine MMMMMMMMPages:  8 Story:  Chris Yambar Pencils:  Mike DeCarlo Inks:  Ken Wheaton Colors:  Art Villanueva Letters:  Karen Bates Editor:  Bill Morrison King of the Sea:  Matt Groening Originally     Presented in:  All Squid Comics #15 December 1942 Plasmo the Mystic in:  The Grotesque Garage Sale of Gargamash! MMMMMMMMPages:  6 Story:  Chuck "Don't Call Me Cthulu" Dixon Art:  Hilary "That Ol' Black Magic" Barta Letters:  Chris "The Undying One" Ungar Colors:  Nathan "Kaluu" Kane Edits:  Bill "The Beyonder" Morrison Packrat:  Matt "Guru of Gargamash" Groening Originally     Presented in:  Tales to Befuddle #64 March 1962 Reprinted in:  Free Comic Book Day 2005       Cover Illustration:  Bill Morrison Orig. Pub Date:  Unknown

Radioactive Man: The Official Movie Adaption   (Nov 2003) At last! The story can be told, and the weekend box office receipts can be counted! The film that put the Springfield Tourism and Film Production Office on the map and bankrupted a major Hollywood studio is ready for release and Bongo Comics is pleased to present the long awaited - official movie adaptation! Starring Rainier Wolfcastle as Radioactive Man and introducing Milhouse Van Houten as his trusted sidekick Fallout Boy, this faithful four color rendition of the Nuclear Knight's tragically heroic origin and his fight for fairly-conservative values will have every man, woman, and child in America looking to the skies and exclaiming those famous words, "Up and Atom!" Radioactive Man, The Official Movie Adaption MMMMMMMMPages:  30 Story and Layouts:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Jason Ho / Bill Morrison Inks:  Bob Smith Colors:  Joey Mason Letters:  Karen Bates Editor:  Bill Morrison Reprinted in:  Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium: Volume 1 Radioactive Man Star of Comics, Stage, Screen, TV, and Then Some! MMMMMMMMPages:  2     Cover Illustration:  Bill Morrison, Jerry Ordway, Nathan Kane Orig. Pub Date:  Spring 1971

Radioactive Man #197  (Nov 2004) It's 1971, and far across the galaxy one truly evil overlord is bent on conquering Radioactive Man's Zenith City, but with a little help from Obrian of the New Guard and the Whatever People, our beloved bolted hero may have all the help he needs to ward off the dark, apocalyptic machinations of...Backseid! Also, witness the Golden Age of Superheroes when "Radio Man" thwarts the pirating ways of "The Broadcast Buccaneers" as they plunder the airwaves. Radioactive Man   Obrian and the New Guards!   Project Meanpeace!   Oh Behave, Backseid! MMMMMMMMPages:  22 Script:  Batton Lash Pencils:  Batton Lash, Dan DeCarlo Inks:  Mike Royer Letters:  Karen Bates Colors:  Chris Ungar, Nathan Kane Edits:  Bill Morrison       Credits simply supplied as By Morty Man (with assist from Lash, DeCarlo, Royer, Bates, Kane, Ungar, Morrison, Groening) Radio Man by Morty Mann The Broadcast Buccaneers! MMMMMMMMPages:  8 Script and   Art Restoration:  Batton Lash Inking Restoration:  Bob Smith Color Restoration:  Art Villanueva Lettering Restoration:  Karen Bates Restoration Editor:  Bill Morrison From the Collection of:  Matt Groening Originally     appeared in:  On America's Wavelength #49 August 1943     Cover Illustration:  Batton Lash, Bill Morrison, Mike Royer Departments:  Bongo Beats (faux), Ground Zero (faux letters) Orig. Pub Date:  Jun 1971

Radioactive Man #711  (2007)  (promotional issue) It's comic book history as 7-Eleven and Radioactive Man's parent company, Bongo Comics Group, present this one-of-a-kind, limited collector's edition--Radioactive Man #7-11! Gasp at the amazing and "brand-spankin'-new" origin of the Irradiated Crusader, conceived especially for 7-Eleven in association with the worldwide release of The Simpsons: The Movie! Cringe as Radioactive Man fights man to mandible with a huge radioactive spider-type person. Witness the historic battle between Radioactive Man and his alternative universe doppelgangers, the Strange-Os! Krusty's House of Novelties  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 (inside front cover) Written by:  Matt Groening Drawn by:  Bill Morrison Reprinted from:  Radioactive Man #88 The True Origin of Radioactive Man MMMMMMMMPages:  8 Script:  Bill Morrison Pencils:  Tone Rodriguez Inks:  Andrew Pepoy Colors:  Nathan Kane Letters:  Karen Bates Reprinted in:  Simpsons Super Spectacular #8   Atlasman  (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 Reprinted from:  Radioactive Man #1 The Amazing Radioactive Spider! MMMMMMMMPages:  14 Writer:  Batton Lash Artist:  Micheal DeCarlo Inker:  Robert Smith Letters:  Christopher Ungar Colors:  Nathan L. Kane Executive Editor:  William Morrison Editor:  Terrance Delegeane CEO:  Matt Groening Reprinted from:  Radioactive Man #4 Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy in Catch of the Day   (faux advertisement) MMMMMMMMPages:  1 Story:  Scott M. Gimple Art:  James Lloyd / Steve Steere, Jr. Letters:  Chris Ungar Colors:  Art Villanueva Reprinted from:  Simpsons Comics #50 Reprinted in:  Simpsons Comics Royale     Simpsons Comics #100   Radioactive Man in Planet of the Strange-O's MMMMMMMMPages:  8 Script:  Jesse Leon McCann, Robert L. Graff Pencils:  Hilary Barta Letters:  Chris Ungar Colors:  Nathan Kane Edits:  Bill Morrison Bizarro No. 1:  Matt Groening Reprinted from:  Simpsons Comics #50 Reprinted in:  Simpsons Comics Royale     Simpsons Illustrated #2  (the comic)     Cover Illustration:  Bill Morrison, Nathan Kane Orig. Pub Date:  Not Supplied Shown to the left is the comic without and within the original 7-11 packaging. Heading at top of package has "Bart Simpson's Favorite Comic Book!" with Bart saying "Up and Atom!".

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