(Detective Comics #241) - Crooks kidnapped Raymond and tried to get him to disclose the location of art treasures scheduled to be featured on "Impossible--But True!" They knew his disappearance would cause suspicion, so one of the crooks who resembled Ray strapped on a propeller and flew to his TV studio. He made up a story about being exposed to a cosmic ray by a guest from the show, and that any contact with the ground would kill him. In truth he didn't want anyone getting close enough to notice he wasn't really Raymond. Roy's secretary Karen noticed he was wearing a white shirt, not the blue one Roy always wore because it showed up white on TV, and exposed the crooks and freed Roy.

(DC Comics Presents #32) - Roy Raymond hosted the television show Daybreak as science-editor. He interviewed Elsa Magusson, the fiancée of supposedly dead hero Mark Merlin. They discussed her theory that Mark wasn’t dead, but had assumed the identity of Prince Ra-Man.

(Swamp Thing II #67) - Roy and his assistant Lipchitz went to Louisiana to film a segment for Roy’s “Incredible But True Show,” searching for the Swamp Thing. The locals were uncooperative, and Raymond was furious that they didn’t revere a big TV star like him.

(Swamp Thing II #68) - Lipchitz found Swamp Thing’s friend Chester, an aging hippy, and convinced him that they met in Woodstock, and that he should meet with Roy. Roy told him he wanted to know everything about Swamp Thing, telling him that in return he’d fund the eco-groups Chester worked for. He claimed he’d make Swamp Thing into the icon of the environmental movement….and reap riches from Swamp Thing merchandise. Chester recognized Roy for the shyster he was and feigned ignorance of the plant elemental. Roy was not amused, and threatened to mace Chester if he didn’t leave immediately.

(Swamp Thing II #69) - Lipchitz drove Roy out of Metropolis, and Roy was fuming that Morgan Edge refused to meet with him. Roy described his goal of becoming a high priest of the religion of television. They drove by Wild Thing, a renegade insane plant elemental, and mistook him for Swamp Thing. They convinced him to join them, even agreeing to let him drive, after telling him they were going to take him to meet Morgan Edge. Unfortunately for them, Wild Thing was so keen on the plan because he thought Edge was the Anti-Christ, and had to be killed. Roy was alarmed when he phoned Galaxy Communications and learned that Edge was on vacation for three weeks in Acapulco.

(Swamp Thing II #71, 72) - Wild Thing drove around the country like a madman, keeping Roy and Lipchitz locked in the car as his prisoners. taking away their credit cards and keeping them locked inside the car. They descended into madness, with Roy continually trying to contact Morgan Edge while surviving of the contents of his mini-bar. Roy’s toupee and dentures fell into the car’s carpeting, and he declined retrieving them because the floor had become a cesspool. Lipschitz lamented the way his boss was degenerating, but held onto hope that they’d be saved.

(Swamp Thing II #73, 74) - Raymond and Lipschitz fought over Ray’s phoine, and Lipschitz punched his employer, causing his face-life to give way. The dilapidated Roy Raymond managed to regain control of the phone and continued his imaginary conversation with Morgan Edge. Wild Thing continued his mad cross country trip, and the limo filled up with filth and flies. Wild Thing drove to Louisiana, where he finally released his completely broken and insane hostages, and attacked Swamp Thing‘s love Abigail Arcane, another synchronistic event engineered by the Parliament of Trees hat led to a fire and the chance of the birth of a new plant elemental, and Swamp Thing came to her aid, destroying the renegade. The police found Raymond’s limo, with Roy still babbling to himself while watching reruns of his own show, and Lipschitz dead, having drowned in his own waste.

(Swamp Thing II #81) - Plastic surgeons restored Roy’s youthful appearance, and despite a media blitz wanting to know what’d happened to him, he decided to turn his back on cheap fame. He wanted to go back to being a real detective who actually helped people.