There was a very good longer story (whose title and author I no longer recall - rats!) where Ralph was working undercover for Intergang or maybe Luthor's organization and was really a hit man. He got whacked not long before the end of the story, but he did a very nice bad guy moment first when he beat up someone more helpless than he (again, can't remember! Dratted getting older thing!).
Now what was I talking about?