Hey Rick, be nice to "Deadly Mantis"!!! But seriously, although it must have been by someone, somewhere, nobody has mentioned how "The Alligator People" must have been ( at least an unconscious ) influence to writer Stan Lee when he created the Spider-Man villian, the Lizard, who debuted a scant 4 years later in 1963 ( Amazing Spider-Man #6 ) There are too many parallels for it to be pure coincidence...Florida Everglades/swamp setting, a one-armed scientist experimenting on reptiles for the purpose of limb regeneration... It is quite possible Stan has acknowledged the influence over the years, but I never read about it anywhere.

Bryan