Name: Space Ranger
Universe: Earth-1
Alter Ego: Rick Starr
Occupation: Business Executive
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: New York City and an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, circa 22nd century
Known Relatives: Thaddeus Starr (father)
Height: 6 ft. 2 in.
Weight: 194 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: Showcase #15

History:
Rick Starr is the son of multimillionaire Thaddeus Starr, the owner of Allied Solar Enterprises, and lives on the Earth of the 22nd century. Rick is a business executive for his father’s company, but is also secretly the Space Ranger, an adventurer known as the guardian of Earth’s solar system.

The Space Ranger’s main base is within an asteroid orbitting between Mars and Jupiter. Space Ranger’s base contains a well-equiped laboratory and is where he docks his starship the Solar King. To reach his asteroid base, Rick Starr uses a small spaceship that he keeps in a private hangar near the New York spaceport.

The Space Ranger has two principal allies: Myra Mason, his girlfriend, not only aids the Space Ranger in his adventures but – knowing his secret identity – also works as Rick Starr’s secretary at Allied Solar Enterprises; Cryll is a small shape-changing alien who watches over the asteroid base in Starr’s absence and accompanies Space Ranger on his adventures. Cryll was stranded on an asteroid beyond Pluto when his spaceship failed and was frozen when Starr found him. Thanks to Cryll’s alien biology, Starr was able to revive him, and since then they’ve been good friends and allies.

Space Ranger has another hidden base on Earth. In this base he has working replicas of every kind of weapon, which he studies to see if they can be of use in his work as Space Ranger.

The Space Ranger has defeated many criminals, would-be conquerors, and other menaces. One of his greatest battles was against an attempt by the Gordanians to capture the Earth. The Gordanians were thwarted in this attempt by Space Ranger’s ally from the past, Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

Powers:
The Space Ranger has no super-powers, but he is a fine hand-to-hand combatant, and is a master of weapons. Among his weapons are his thermoblaze gun (which melts objects), his explosi-discs (which explode), his dissolverizer (which dissolves objects), his anti-gravity gun, and his numbing gun, (which projects rings of paralyzing energy).

The Solar King is armed with powerful weapons and can travel at incredible speeds through normal space and hyperspace thanks to a system Rick Starr invented.

Space Ranger’s ally Cryll can change his color and shape into that of any other living creature.