Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: 18 September 1965 – 18 June 1966
Number of Issues Published: 40 (#[1] – #[40])
Color: Colour
Dimensions: 10″ x 13″
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Merges into Look and Learn (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1962 series).
Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database
Ranger was a British comic book magazine, with occasional printed stories, published by Fleetway Publications for 40 un-numbered issues between 18 September 1965 and 18 June 1966. The title was then incorporated into Look and Learn from issue 232, dated 25 June 1966.
The title was created by Leonard Matthews but edited by John Sanders, with Ken Roscoe as assistant editor and Colin Parker as art editor.
The content was a mixture of factual articles, photo features and comic strips designed to appeal to boys.
Nowadays it is best remembered as the birthplace of the science fiction strip The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire originally drawn by Don Lawrence which ran continuously from issue 1 of Ranger until the final issue of Look and Learn in 1982.
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Ranger 1965-09-18
Ranger 1965-09-25
Ranger 1965-10-02
Ranger 1965-10-09
Ranger 1965-10-16
Ranger 1965-10-23
Ranger 1965-10-30
Ranger 1965-11-06
Ranger 1965-11-13
Ranger 1965-11-20
Ranger 1965-11-27
Ranger 1965-12-04
Ranger 1965-12-11
Ranger 1965-12-18
Ranger 1965-12-25
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Ranger 1966-01-01
Ranger 1966-01-08
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Ranger 1966-01-22
Ranger 1966-01-29
Ranger 1966-02-05
Ranger 1966-02-12
Ranger 1966-02-19
Ranger 1966-02-26
Ranger 1966-03-05
Ranger 1966-03-12
Ranger 1966-03-19
Ranger 1966-03-26
Ranger 1966-04-02
Ranger 1966-04-09
Ranger 1966-04-16
Ranger 1966-04-23
Ranger 1966-04-30
Ranger 1966-05-07
Ranger 1966-05-14
Ranger 1966-05-21
Ranger 1966-05-28
Ranger 1966-06-04
Ranger 1966-06-11
Ranger 1966-06-18
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Ranger Book 1967
Ranger Book 1968
British Comics 
Ranger Annual 1967
Scanned by ‘bevisvamp’
https://www.4shared.com/folder/YM8k7BR7/_online.html
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Here is a mediafire link for the same annual
http://www.mediafire.com/file/o1mmb2swnqr3sh7/The%20Ranger%20Book%201967.cbz
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Thanks, always good to have a second link, especially with sites like 4shared, they can be a pain sometimes.
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Hi – looks like issue 11, 23 and 32 of RANGER are missing from the collection. I have loaded all 3 pdfs that I scanned myself to drop box but as I have not used it for a while not quite sure how I get them to you. Do I need your email address ?. I did try mediafire but didn’t seem to get very far. I hope we can sort it so that the missing files are there for everyone to access.
Please advise when you have a minute.
Regards
Rob
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Best to do is just copy the downloadlink and leave it in a comment, i will download it asap and delete the link again.
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https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Ranger%20Boy's%20Magazine%201966-02-19.pdf?role=personal here is the first one. Hope it works and if it does I will do the other 2 missing issues.
Regards
Rob
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I am afraid it doesn’t work for me, it says the map is not existing.
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Blast. Is there a direct email address i can send it to. I defo have pdfs for the missing Ranger issues plus other titles in my collection. Annoying it doesnt work but i will keep trying.
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My email can’t hold to many mb’s. I guess you have to try to copy the link to the individual file, the link in the comments points to a map that doesn’t exist.
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Hi Rob, can you find a way to upload this one please? Thanks.
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Status of the available Rangers:
Missing issues:
Ranger 023 (1966-02-19)
Ranger 032 (1966-04-23)
Missing/damaged pages:
Ranger 005 (1965-10-16) (Missing page 39)
Ranger 006 (1965-10-23) (Missing pgs 19-22)
Ranger 007 (1965-10-30) (Missing pgs 19-22,39,40)
Ranger 012 (1965-12-04) (Missing pgs 19-22,35-38, Damaged pgs 13,14)
Ranger 020 (1966-01-29) (Missing page 2)
Ranger 035 (1966-05-14) (Missing page 26)
Would be nice if at one time they were to be completed. Anyone who can make some of these pages available, do so. If you have only single missing pages available, or can scan them, just provide a link and I will put together and provide the corrected issues.
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Attempted to download speed & power magazine but it says there appears to be something missing when you attempt to download. Could you look into it for me please.
Congratulations on a excellent site.
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Thanks for letting me know, i will make new links later today.
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Just the 1966-02-19 issue missing? Or, do you have it somewhere? 🙂
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Yes, i have that issue, it was in one of the 2 last updates, i still have to add these updates into the original pages, i usually wait for 2 or 3 updates before i add all new ones into the pages.
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Ah, didn’t think to look there. Found it, but reports archive damaged? Won’t open or extract for me. 😦
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I had no problems reading it with CDisplayEx and Comicrack, it’s pretty large and took awhile to load, perhaps the problem is that the files are png and somehow i get the idea that it was a pdf file and someone changed the extension, perhaps changing the extension back to cbr or cbz helps.
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Ah, you are correct. Changed the suffix to .pdf, extracted to .jpg’s, renumbered & cropped, uploaded… https://mega.nz/file/nfhCDJhC#luAa5HUtbUdyRtbTMNieVJ7K-sbp_fp6TPaxuwioQo8
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Thank you, i will think about placing this one at the downloadpage instead of the original because i don’t know who scanned this and i don’t like to upset the original scanner and uploader, although someone allready adjusted it by changing pdf into cbr.
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Fair enough. If you look at the original there was a lot of white to crop below each page though. Anyway, enough for today. Didn’t expect to be working on a Sunday morning. Haha
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Hi dear, do you havd Ranger book 1968?
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All i have is on the blog.
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Hi, I bought the 1968 book I would like to help complete the collection by adding it. please let me know how to proceed to upload it.Gabriele from Italy
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Thanks for the offer. You can upload the scan to any filesharingsite and leave a link in a comment, i will make sure it ends up at the right page.
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Hi boutje.
Did you ever get the 1968 Ranger book?
Regards
Bosco
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No, never saw it appear in a comment.
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Hi boutje, at the following link it is possible to download the Ranger book 1968 file. let me know if there are any problems.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pko1arfw1040g00/Ranger%20Book%201968.zip?dl=0
Regards
Gabriele
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Thanks, great work, i just download it without problems.
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For some reason, when I try to read the 1968 annual through two readers, every second page is upside down but when I extract the contents, they are the right way up. How are the readers getting confused?
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I have no idea, i tried CDisplayEx and have the same. It makes you wonder howcome indeed.
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Hi Boutje. Ranger – 1966-02-19 seems to have a problem, when i try to unpack it with winrar, it says, no archive content, is it me or is there a problem with it. This is a fantastic site, my boys love reading the old yesteryear comics, so much better than the modern stuff they print today. Thanks Rachel.
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I tried it and had no problem unpacking and then reading with CdisplayEx.
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