Rangerhouse Archive 005 - The Lost City Collection (Great Comics Pub)

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Comic Name: Rangerhouse Archive 005 - The Lost City Collection (Great Comics Pub) (82.03 MB)
Description: A new Rangerhouse Archive!
This is an unusual one - it features not just comics but a movie serial from 1935.  One you can watch yourself on Archive.org if you are brave, see the link above!  It's not traditionally considered a 'good' one but also called 'so bad it's great' by many.
Small publisher Great Comics Pub Inc. started to adapt the serial later in the 40s (it was edited into Three different movie versions!)  It was to be adapted in alternating chapters in Great Comics and Choice Comics.  Each title managed a part but then the publisher closed shop.  It's a shame as the comic is pretty cool reading.
JVJ thinks Charles Nicholas and Max Elkan may have produced the artwork.
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Included in this collection are the two chapters as well as over 40 posters, lobby-cards, foreign edition materials and a very cool intro by our own Erwin K. Roberts telling what he thinks might have happened before the shooting started.  At the back you'll also find Another review of the serial told as a wonderful fan-fic meeting between the producer and down on his luck star William 'Stage' Boyd who died shortly after filming finished!

Not your usual collection - Check it out!
Uploaded by: Yoc
Upload Date: 2013-01-09 13:13:15

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Comment made at: Rangerhouse Archive 005 - The Lost City Collection (Great Comics Pub)
Love these Lost gems!!!!! Great job, it brings back the wonderful memories of movie serials, pulps and action comics. Thanks, looking forward to more.......
 

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Comment made at: Rangerhouse Archive 005 - The Lost City Collection (Great Comics Pub)
This archive is an absolute delight, and finding it in a Hoitlist torrent led me to various momentous actions:

1) Getting the Lost City serial, script, book, and parody-mashup from Archive.Org;
2) Getting the Phantom Ranch materials (which inspired Lost City) from Archive.Org;
3) Searching for more Rangerhouse archives, and finding DCM -- so it's why I'm here!

The backstory: Gene Autrey was slated to make his first film as a headliner, a serial called The Phantom Ranch, a combination Western-SciFi-Musical (!!!) about a singing cowboy who broadcasts music daily from his dude ranch, which is located above an underground super-science empire with radium mines that unscrupulous real-estate speculators want to grab. Got that? A cheap film producer wants to beat the Autrey film to the screen, so he sloppily adapts the Lost City novel into a serial for William 'Stage' Boyd (not the Hopalong Cassidy guy) to write, shoot and distribute in four weeks. Why waste time? All this is told in the Rangerhouse Archive marginalia -- and if that's not enough to get you searching for more, you're a turnip.

Highly recommended.

EDIT: This is my first comment and vote here. I mistakenly rated this as 5 -- it should be 11!
 

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Comment made at: Rangerhouse Archive 005 - The Lost City Collection (Great Comics Pub)
Not bad. Basically somewhere in the general area of serials like THE PHANTOM EMPIRE and the later (and better) UNDERSEA KINGDOM. Maybe a little more on the Bela Lugosi side. Actually, if Lugosi had played the villain and Tor Johnson had been in it, it might have been a lot better. Decent artwork by Rudy Palais on the comic adaptation.