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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.

Link to the book: Rangers Comics 01