History Main / LettersToTheEditor

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* ''[[ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree 1963]]'' would have a fictional LettersToTheEditor page, parodying the columns Creator/StanLee would put out for Marvel in the TheSixties.

* When Marvel re-launched [[ComicBook/TalesOfSuspenseRedLedger Tales of Suspense]] in 2017, they used legacy numbering, picking up at #100. It had a fake letter column with the conceit that the letters had been moldering in the Bullpen since 1968, when #99 was published. Highlights included complaints about the steep cost of comics (12 cents an issue!) and a proposal that Captain America team up with President-elect Richard Nixon.

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* The direct-to-video special ''The Secrets of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' Trilogy'', hosted by Kirk Cameron, answered some questions that fans of the trilogy had sent.

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* ''{{MAgazine/Analog}}'': In April 1930, the magazine began publishing letters that had been sent in by fans. Fans such as, Creator/IsaacAsimov, Creator/LesterDelRey, Creator/DamonKnight, and Creator/DonaldAWollheim. They were often used as a way to correspond with people you had never met and included your address so that private correspondences could occur as well. This culture of communication in magazines like ''Astounding Stories'' were the source of mailing lists.

* ''[[UsefulNotes/NineteenSixtyThree 1963]]'' would have a fictional LettersToTheEditor page, parodying the columns Creator/StanLee would put out for Marvel in the TheSixties.

* Famously, pornographic magazines like Penthouse had letters pages where people wrote about their sexual experiences; most were made-up by the magazine's writers. It's probably safe to say that most of the ones that ''weren't'' were from {{UnreliableNarrator}}s as well.

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', the author has taken questions from the readers for two anniversary events. The answers to these were made into Q&A strips, with either [[FourthWallMailSlot the characters]] or the AuthorAvatar giving the answers.

* ''YesVirginia'' was a response to an actual letter to the editor from an 8-year-old girl.

* '''Literature/GoodOmens'': R.P. Tyler, self-appointed MoralGuardian, frequently writes editorial letters to the local newspaper condemning the moral decline of the nation's youth, as evidenced by [insert TheNewRockAndRoll subject here]. He writes so many, in fact, that the newspaper can't print them all, leading him to write letters complaining that some of his letters aren't published.

* The UK show ''Series/PointsOfView'' consists largely of such letters. It's one of the largest targets for SnarkBait on British TV.

* In ''Discworld/TheTruth'', William is baffled by the amount of insane (and badly spelled) mail he receives, much of it from Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells types. He eventually decides to print them all to take up space. Especially when his dwarf business partner tells him to put in one complaining ''[[FantasticRacism about dwarfs]]'' because it will attract letters complaining about that one, and fill even more space.

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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', the author has taken questions from the readers for two anniversary events. The answers to these were made into Q&A strips, with either the characters or the AuthorAvatar giving the answers.

* RussellBrand exploited ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Sun]]'''s letters page for comedy gold in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1uhmnNnmL8 this act]].

* RussellBrand exploited ''[[BritishNewspapers The Sun's]]'' letters page for comedy gold in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1uhmnNnmL8 this act]].

* John Holmes's spot on ''Radio/TheNowShow'' used to include people writing to him about topical events, heralded by "Let's take a listen to a letter." The letters would often point out that they were obviously fictional and an excuse for whatever he wanted to talk about.