Ronald Lithgow

Randy Stradley brought Ronald Lithgow to life in Mecha #1 in 1987, right at the dawn of Dark Horse Comics' rise as an indie powerhouse, and this Copper Age original has quietly maintained a presence in the catalog ever since — stretching all the way to 2024, a span of nearly four decades. With appearances concentrated in Dark Horse Presents and San Diego Comic Con Comics, Lithgow has been a fixture of Dark Horse's most celebrated anthology spaces, sharing pages with some of the publisher's most beloved creations: Concrete, Madman, Hellboy, and Fone Bone, among others — genuinely rarefied company. Two of his appearances carry key-issue status, making him more than a footnote for the discerning collector. For fans who love digging into the deeper cuts of the Dark Horse universe, Ronald Lithgow is exactly the kind of character worth tracking down.