Rangers

Rangers Comics #34

Rangers Comics #36

Rangers Comics #22

Rangers Comics was first published in 1941 as Rangers of Freedom Comics, featuring a costume superhero team. After seven issues, the series was renamed Rangers Comics and continued to use its noted cover flag banner for another 62 issues until it was cancelled after issue #69.

As the last series added to the “Big Six of the Comics” by publisher Fiction House, Rangers Comics was known for its eye-catching pin-up style good girl art. The “Big Six” also included Jumbo, Jungle Comics, Wings Comics, Planet Comics, Fight Comics.

Rangers Comics never made it to monthly publication and was the first of the “Big Six” to be cancelled. The series focused on war stories until 1945, and then shifted to anthologies and westerns. One of its notable characters was Firehair, “Queen of the Sagebrush Frontier,” who debuted in issue #21 (1945) and continued to appear on the cover of subsequent issues (#40-65).

Werewolf Hunter by Lily Renee

Glory Forbes by Matt Baker

Rangers Comics also featured one of the first attempts at a horror theme with Werewolf Hunter by Lily Renee, which began in issue #8. Among the issues of Rangers Comics, #22 from December 1945 is particularly noteworthy for its classic good girl cover with a WWII theme and promotion of Firehair on the cover blurb and inside story. Additionally, issues #34* and #36* are of interest to collectors, with the latter featuring the inside story Glory Forbes by good girl great Matt Baker.

Rangers Comics #37

Rangers Comics #39

* Sold Copy