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Issue: Rangers of Freedom Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #1 of 7 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: Fiction House MagazinesView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Flying Stories, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/18/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): De Witt Shank (Editor); Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Disclose Notes: The title of the comic book is "Rangers of Freedom Comics." This comic book has no text story.
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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.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Super-Brain

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich (signed)
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rangers of Freedom
Character(s): The Rangers of Freedom [Biff Barkley; Tex Russell; Percy Cabot]; Super-Brain (villain)
First Line: The Rangers battle the Super-Brain and his desperado soldiers--insidious destroyers of American freedom and democracy
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Captain Raymond Colt] (signed)
Penciller(s): Joe Doolin
Inker(s): Joe Doolin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rangers of Freedom
Character(s): The 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)
First Line: As fiendish sabotage terrorizes the citizens of the United States...
Synopsis: Biff, 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.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #81 published January 2010
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Pages: 12
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Stacy Kent]
Penciller(s): Jim Chambers?
Inker(s): Jim Chambers?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Royal Watch
Character(s): The Royal Watch [Jock; Mac; Harry; Terry] (intro of all); Sgt. Harkness; Captain Carruthers; Villains: Herman (intro; dies); Nazi spies (intro; die)
First Line: Jock, Mac, Harry and Terry are at the...
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Jeff Adams (byline)]
Penciller(s): Don Lynch
Inker(s): Don Lynch
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Defense Patrol
Character(s): The Defense Patrol [Pedro; Tony; Socker; Nick; Spike; Tom; Fatso; Izzy] (intro; origin); Captain Thomason; Villains: Von Sourpuss (intro); Nazis
First Line: The toughest little eggs in Steel City are having themselves a gang war one afternoon when suddenly...
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Pat O'Hara]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Jeep Milarkey
Character(s): Jeep Milarkey (intro; an MP); Lt. Kitty Tone (an Army nurse); Villains: Nazis
First Line: Jeep Milarkey, on guard at a southern army...
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Talbot Cook]
Penciller(s): Bob Jenney
Inker(s): Bob Jenney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Anzac Hawks
Character(s): The Anzac Hawks [Tommy Armitage; Betty Armitage; Roy Blake] (intro; origin; only appearance); Villains: Van Der Meer (intro); Nazis
First Line: Living on an isolated plantation on the barren...
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Buck Masters]
Penciller(s): Robert Bugg?
Inker(s): Bob Hebberd?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Rocky Hall Jungle Stalker
Character(s): Rocky Hall (intro); Gay-Ree (Gary Murray; a jungle boy; intro); Villains: Snake-Men (intro)
First Line: Rocky Hall, a champion tracker, has been chosen...
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Caleb Banks]
Penciller(s): Harry Fisk?
Inker(s): Harry Fisk?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Sea Squad
Character(s): The Sea Squad [Jackson; Rick Davis; three unnamed others] (intro; origin); Sam Squidd (intro); Villains: Nazis
First Line: Legend. Five adventurous friends, all expert sailors, have...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This is the only appearance of the Sea Squad.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as John Campbell]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Don Stuart of the Far East Rangers
Character(s): Don 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)
First Line: Dr. Stuart, the unofficial adviser to the Chinese government...
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Pages: 8

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