Skipping ahead a bit, the issue of Ranger at which we’re looking today contains fourteen pages of comics, or thirty-five per cent of its overall content, so the editorial folk knew what kids wanted. This means they are therefore more acceptable to any adults who might be concerned that their children are wasting their money on childish comics. It’s a simple but generally effective psychological trick: people tend to view magazines as more serious and “grown up” than comics. I once had a discussion with a friend in which he insisted that Ranger had been created as a direct rival to Eagle, but by 1965 Eagle was already fifteen years old and its glory days were only visible in the rear-view mirror.īesides, Ranger was being pushed as a magazine - it says so right there on the cover - rather than a comic. Where the original was a twenty-four-page story-paper on boring old newsprint, this swingin’ sixties version was a high-quality forty-page colourful magazine packed with features, comic-strips and text stories. Ranger was a revival in name only of an Amalgamated Press title that ran from to for a total of 242 issues (with a relaunch along the way: see the Eagle Timeline for more details). Luckily a few years back I stumbled across a way to greatly speed that up, but it’s still a lot of work just to scan a single issue, even more if I want to clean up the pages. The scanning part is tedious, but the stitching together is the real time-killer. … which means that each page needs to be scanned in two chunks that must then be stitched together.

Thus - or even hence - they’re too large for my scanner… It’s been quite a while since I began procrastinating about reviewing Ranger but I’ve finally decided to come clean and admit that the reason I was putting it off was ridiculously petty: its pages are 255mm by 330mm.

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