Following below is a index to all the faux letters published in the Ground Zero section of Radioactive Man comics.   One may be inspired ask, how do we know for sure which ones are faux?  Simple!  Sometimes we don't.   It doesn't help that many real letters, not documented below, were written in the spirit of the "original" publication date.   All letters (including these) are indexed in our  Meet the Fans!  document.

In Radioactive Man #412 the historical publishing schedule was supplied as "eight times a year from 11/52 to 5/59, then monthly until 4/72, then twice a month until (at least) issue #412, October 1980. Then in Radioactive Man #100 the historical publishing schedule was further detailed; "Radioactive Man has not only published more issues than any other comic book series with one thousand issues in total (excluding annuals, giants, and crossovers,) but it is also the most frequently published comic as well. In fact, from issue #413 (11/80) to #418 (12/80), Morty Mann experimented briefly with a "trimonthly" schedule, before launching into the notorious "weekly" schedule from #419 (1/81) to #679 (12/85) that has been documented in the Duff Book of World Records. After a furious four years of unequaled creative productivity, Morty fell into a more comfortable "week and a halfly" schedule starting with #679 (1/86) and ending with the theoretically final issue of #1000 (1/95). The rumour that publishing had ceased is true, nonetheless, we are happy to report that after a mere three month hiatus publishing resumed monthly in Apr 1995 with issue 1001, as evidenced by reprint and background story information supplied by Simpsons Summer Shindig #3 that indicated that issue #1173 was being published in September 2009.

Therefore we have the following;

Issues	Dates	Frequency
=====   Ordered By Original Publication Date   =====
1    -     55	Nov 1952  -  May 1959	Eight times a year
55    -   208	May 1959  -  Apr  1972	Monthly
208   -    412	Apr  1972  -  Oct  1980	Twice a month
413   -    418	Oct  1980  -  Dec 1980	Trimonthly
419   -    679	Jan 1981  -  Dec 1985	Weekly
679   -  1000	Jan 1986  -  Jan  1995	Week and a halfly
1001   -  1173	Apr  1995  -  Sep 2009	Monthly
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For those of you driven to ask if the Bongo supplied detail precisely matches what has been "reprinted" thus far... well, not exactly.

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