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Rangers Comics
Date | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en)
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NotesComplete! A freddyfly gift to Fiction House fandom for Christmas 2010!
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This is an interesting peek into the American psyche on the eve of the country's entry into WW2. Just two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor the lead story has young "extra ordinary examples of American youth" volunteer to fight "Super Brain", a super villain schemer in the Fu Manchu mold, rather than Hitler directly. Indeed issue #2 retcons the story to be set in the near-future of 1948 with Hitler demoted to merely an "adventurer" Super Brain is using. Needless to say, things quickly changed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And by issue 5 the original titular "Rangers of Freedom" team would be replaced by a less super-themed group of Army Rangers. It's interesting to note that many of the other stories in issue #1 deal with 5th columnist saboteurs. If you can put yourself in the time, it gives an incredible sense of foreboding. America was just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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The credit "John Campbell" on the feature "Don Stuart of the Far East Rangers" is curious, given that author-editor John W. Campbell (editing the pulp ASTOUNDING SF at the time this comic book was published) often wrote fiction under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart (such as "Who Goes There?", the basis for the 1950s movie The Thing From Another World). It's hard to imagine the hard sf-oriented editor moonlighting from his day job by writing comic scripts on the side for Fiction House, but perhaps the credit was meant as a kind of nudge-and-a-wink homage of sorts by whomever the actual author was.
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Now we're talking! The early issues of Fight Comics, were poor examples of this era. Rangers of Freedom sure makes up for it.
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I’d say that Fiction House was pretty all over the place with its interior art until 1941, and became consistently good across all titles, alongside their covers, from 1942 onwards, getting to be sometimes great and occasionally amazing at times.
  
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NameRangers Comics 1 | Published
PublicationPrice: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68
NotesThe indicia title of the comic book is "Rangers of Freedom Comics."
This comic book has no text story.
No publication frequency in the indicia.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
 
CoverThe Super-Brain / 1 page
GenreAdventure
CharactersThe Rangers of Freedom [Biff Barkley; Tex Russell; Percy Cabot]; Super-Brain (villain)
PencilsDan Zolnerowich (signed)
InksDan Zolnerowich (signed)
First LineThe Rangers battle the Super-Brain and his desperado soldiers--insidious destroyers of American freedom and democracy
 
Comic StoryThe Super-Brain / Rangers of Freedom (12 pages)
SynopsisBiff, Tex and Percy are brought by the FBI to Washington D.C. and informed that a mysterious mental force is behind the attack on America's democracy and that only young minds can resist their powers. The three accept the challenge and form the "Rangers of Freedom", only to be captured by the Super-Brain, subjected to an intense brain compelling ray and ordered to go to the nation's capitol and kidnap the President of the United States.
GenreAdventure
CharactersThe Rangers of Freedom [Biff Barkley; Tex Russell; Percy Cabot, the Little Corporal] (introduction with origin; not the Marine heroes featured in #5-7); guest stars: President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Gloria Travers (Miss America of 1941, name revealed next issue); The Super-Brain (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains)
Script
PencilsJoe Doolin
InksJoe Doolin
First LineAs fiendish sabotage terrorizes the citizens of the United States...
NotesTitle from the cover.
 
StoryThe Royal Watch (9 pages)
Script? [as Stacy Kent] (credited)
GenreWar
CharactersThe Royal Watch [Jock; Mac; Harry; Terry] (intro of all); Sgt. Harkness; Captain Carruthers; Villains: Herman (intro; dies); Nazi spies (intro; die)
PencilsJim Chambers ?
InksJim Chambers ?
First LineJock, Mac, Harry and Terry are at the...
 
StoryDefense Kids (8 pages)
Script? [as Jeff Adams] (credited)
GenreAdventure
CharactersThe Defense Patrol [Pedro; Tony; Socker; Nick; Spike; Tom; Fatso; Izzy] (intro; origin); Captain Thomason; Villains: Von Sourpuss (intro); Nazis
PencilsDon Lynch
InksDon Lynch
First LineThe toughest little eggs in Steel City are having themselves a gang war one afternoon when suddenly...
NotesFor this story only, the Feature Logo is "Defense Patrol"
 
StoryJeep Milarkey (4 pages)
Script? [as Pat O'Hara] (credited)
GenreHumor
CharactersJeep Milarkey (intro; an MP); Lt. Kitty Tone (an Army nurse); Villains: Nazis
First LineJeep Milarkey, on guard at a southern army...
 
Comic StoryNo Title (7 pages)
FeatureAnzac Hawks
Script? [as Talbot Cook] (credited)
GenreWar
CharactersThe Anzac Hawks [Tommy Armitage; Betty Armitage; Roy Blake] (intro; origin; only appearance); Villains: Van Der Meer (intro); Nazis
PencilsBob Jenney
InksBob Jenney
First LineLiving on an isolated plantation on the barren...
NotesThis is the only appearance of the Anzac Hawks.
 
StoryRocky Hall Jungle Stalker (8 pages)
Script? [as Buck Masters] (credited)
GenreJungle
CharactersRocky Hall (intro); Gay-Ree (Gary Murray; a jungle boy; intro); Villains: Snake-Men (intro)
PencilsBob Bugg ?
InksBob Hebberd ?
First LineRocky Hall, a champion tracker, has been chosen...
NotesHW and HS see some possible Jim Chambers and HW adds Tom Gill to the list of suspects.
 
Comic StoryNo Title (8 pages)
FeatureSea Squad
Script? [as Caleb Banks] (credited)
GenreAdventure
CharactersThe Sea Squad [Jackson; Rick Davis; three unnamed others] (intro; origin); Sam Squidd (intro); Villains: Nazis
PencilsHarry Fisk ?
InksHarry Fisk ?
First LineLegend. Five adventurous friends, all expert sailors, have...
NotesThis is the only appearance of the Sea Squad.
 
StoryDon Stuart of the Far East Rangers (8 pages)
GenreWar
CharactersDon Stuart (intro); Dr. Stuart (intro; his father); Hilda Von Bellows (intro); Sing Hi (intro); Sing Lo (intro); Lt. Lee Wing (intro); Villain: Von Bellows (intro)
Script
First LineDr. Stuart, the unofficial adviser to the Chinese government...
 
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