5 November 2022

UPDATED: Power Rangers - the official magazine (1996)

I've looked before (here) at Power Rangers comics from 1995 - there have been a lot of Power Rangers comics over the years so it's important to be able to tell them all apart. 

There was a Marvel UK comic [not yet covered on the blog] that ran from 1st March 1995 to 1st March 1996 (13 issues) and that title seems to have been followed by this title - "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine". There is comics content but it's limited. These are slim magazines, only 28 pages in total (including covers) but they do all feature a 5 page comic strip at the start of each issue. I'm reliably informed that there were 8 issues in total.

The credits on page 2 of issue one list Helen Nally as art director, Glenn Dakin as editor, Gary Ninja Gilbert as designer and Mark Irvine / Andy Parslow as 'production'.
By issue 4 Jason Quinn is project leader

Here's what I've found so far...the covers for issues 2 & 3 are new for this update

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #1, 10th May 1996
story - "Victims of Vegetabully", story & art by Paul Kirchner, inks by Ralph Reese 

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #2, 24th May 1996
no details of the writer / artists credits to hand

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #3, 7th June 1996
no details of the writer / artists credits to hand

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #4, 21st June 1996
story is untitled - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor 'Rita' Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #5, 5th July 1996
story is "The return of Sabrina!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor Glenn Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #6, 19th July 1996
story is "The ice cream caper!" - story by Ian Carney, art by Brian Williamson, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and editor "Chunky" Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #7, 2nd August 1996
story is "Duelling duet!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Dumpster" Dakin
David Leach provides some spot illustrations on other pages

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #8, 16th August 1996

story is "Bee-ware" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Trumpetop" Dakin


Some feedback from the actual editor after my previous post about these...


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