MR. LIZARD COMIC BOOKS

Besides Ralph himself, Mr. Lizard is by far the most popular character ever to appear in RSA. Ralph was introduced to him in Volume 2, issue 4 "My summer of ill repute", dated February, 1987. In volume 3, issue 26, John Hartman penned a short 4 page story advertising the fact that he would be the writer of a new Mr. Lizard monthly series starting in September 1990, but NOW went belly-up for the first time, and this series was never published.

RSA made a comeback with NOW Comics in 1992, and capitalizing on RSA's success, in 1993 NOW did get around to publishing two Mr. Lizard comics; the 3-D special, and the Mr. Lizard annual. Both came with collectable sponges (yes, sponges). The Mr. Lizard 3-D special comes with a capsule that contains a 2-1/2" high Mr. Lizard sponge, and the Mr. Lizard annual comes with a capsule that contains a 2-1/2" high Ralph Snart sponge. (Both have to be immersed in warm water).

The webmaster assumes that these issues were the first two issues of the planned Mr. Lizard series, and produced sometime during the 11 month hiatus period when NOW was not publishing in 1989 and 1990, but not released until 1993. Although Marc Hansen was infuriated by other hack writers and hack artists messing with his creations, Hartman's writing isn't too bad; he's the best of the hacks.