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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