*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: A classic in our latest First Quenchers (UK #1 issue) event! 1965 saw the debut of the oversized Ranger, an adventure weekly with an educational bent which was caught up in the enthusiasm of the Space Age. Among the features was the debut, in sumptuous full-colour, of Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence’s Tales of the Trigan Empire’, the story of an outer-space realm full of sinister machinations, exotic locales and strange creatures. A companion paper to the more scholastic Look & Learn, Ranger only lasted forty issues before being absorbed into its sibling, but ‘Trigan Empire’ continued in L & L for a decade and a half of imaginative scripts and superb illustrations, and this is where it all began. This copy of Ranger #1 is a nice solid VG, with moderate corner wear at the lower right cover corner; the Free Gift, a booklet on the BOAC VC 10 – ‘Wonder Aircraft of the Age’ – is also VG, with a light ‘scuff’ at the left edge where it was originally attached to the comic. The comic and the Free Gift are on sale for £50. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD