Boom Studio's Power Rangers comic will introduce Power Rangers team of 1969

[Steel]

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[quote]There's was plenty of Power Rangers information to take in at New York Comic Con, but one of the biggest is the new look at the original Rangers, a group that includes the first male Pink Ranger.

Yep, that's right. Fans are still dealing with the bombshell in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #19 that Grace Sterling (head of Promethea) is the original Red Ranger. As writer Kyle Higgins has teased though, there was an entire team of Rangers in the 1960s, and now you have your first look at the whole crew.

Director of Global Consumer Products for Power Rangers Jason Bischoff shared a new image of the team that will be introduced in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #20, and it includes a few shakeups. Grace leads the team, appearing in her Red Ranger form, alongside a male Blue Ranger, a female Black Ranger, a male Yellow Ranger, and a male Pink Ranger.

That team is rather notable for a few reasons. First off, there's never been either a female Black Ranger or a male Pink Ranger thus far in Power Rangers history. There were male Pink Rangers in certain seasons of Super Sentai of course, but not in Power Rangers. As for a female Black Ranger, that's never been done in Super Sentai or Power Rangers to this point.

The Yellow Ranger being a male is a nice throwback to the Mighty Morphin show, as the Super Sentai counterpart was played by a male actor, but the stateside version always had female actors in the role.

Higgins spoke a bit about these brand new Rangers at New York Comic Con, including a bit more about the Blue Ranger, Nikolai.

"This will come out in issue #20, The Story of the 1969 Power Rangers and this deep look back at when I got to create five new Rangers from all different parts of the world. Nikolai from the Soviet Union doesn't speak English, so there are translations, communication issues, everything. They all have to work together in an unusual era," Higgins said.[/quote]
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[Chris™]

For a 60's Power Ranger I was hoping for a little more of a distinct look and not just the exact same as Might Morphin Power Rangers with a modest gender swap here and there.

[The_J_Hat]

And everyone gets a gender swap except Blue?

[Lone_Star94]

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;52759667]And everyone gets a gender swap except Blue?[/QUOTE]

You see, this might be an instance of the Blue ranger being openly gay, but really he's a closet heterosexual.

[Glaber]

Shouldn't they be using sentai costumes from GoRanger instead of Zyuranger?

Goranger is the closest they can get for a 60's style ranger team look. (nothing sentai exists for the 60's)

[Zotobom]

I was hoping for some retro sci-fi Power Ranger shit, oh well