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Issue: Radioactive Man #1
Publication Date: December 1993
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)
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Variant: Glow-in-the-Dark Cover, Poster Included
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Publisher: FlagBongo
Brand: Bongo Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Bongo Entertainment, Inc.
On Sale Date: 1993
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
$1.95 USD alternate covers only
Indicia Frequency: Six times a year
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Steve Vance (Editor-in-Chief); Cindy Vance (Editor-in-Chief); Jason Grode (Managing Editor)
Disclose Notes: Cover printed on heavy cardstock paper for this issue only. Includes a 4-page fold-out Radioactive Man poster. First issue of the series, numbered "1," to offer a sample issue of a fictional long-published series, featuring a pivotal story from Radioactive Man's history; Radioactive Man's origin story. Fictional cover date; November 1952. Cover and story spoofs comics from the early 1950's.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Cover
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Miniseries
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Radioactive Man [Claude Kane III]
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Disclose Notes: Glow in the Dark Cover. Atomic Explosion cover. Includes a Radioactive Man poster. Spoofs the comics of the early 1950's.

Alternate cover has UPC bar code on bottom left, does not include poster with issue, and has a U.S. cover price of $1.95.

Another alternate cover has portion of line drawing of Bart Simpson in UPC box on bottom-left of cover, cover does not glow in the dark, issue does not include the poster, and has a cover price of U.S. $1.95.
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The Origin of Radioactive Man

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Radioactive Man [Claude Kane III]; Gloria Grand; Dr. Claude Kane II; Ed
Synopsis: Radioactive Man gets caught in an atomic explosion, and recieves his powers.
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Pages: 11
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Dr. Crab's Commie Comics

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Radioactive Man [Claude Kane III]; Gloria Grand; Dr. Crab [Vladimir Krabokov]; Dr. Crab's henchmen; Richard Nixon; William G. Maimes; Red Fez Gang; J. Westminster Fullbright (architect); Hedrick Hertzmann [JJ Bellwether]; Gretchen Grille; Rod Runtledge; Aunt June Runtledge; Mr. Runtledge (mentioned); Mrs. Runtledge (mentioned); Dodd Runtledge (mentioned); Frankie Costanza (mentioned); Sergeant-At-Arms
Synopsis: Introduction of Dr. Crab. Richard Nixon appears as a congressman. Radioactive Man helps shut down comic book publisher William Maimes and helps install a comic code program to clean up comic books.
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The Hold-Up That Made a Hero Out of Mac

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Atlasman; Mac
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Ground Zero

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Hal Deutsch; Matt Cruger

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