Rick Starr was the son of wealthy industrialist Thaddeus Starr who owned Allied Solar Enterprises in a distant future. After seeing trouble in the solar system surrounding Earth-One in his era, Starr become the costumed crusader. known as Space Ranger. Mephisto Saturno was royalty from the planet Saturn-Two, sent by that world's Emperor to conscript slaves from Earth-Two as Duke Saturno.
Starr would have a long and distinguished career albeit not yet but in a potential future timeline. He even met Green Lantern and other prominent protectors of the 20th century during a couple cosmic crisises, including the Crisis on Infinite Earths. As for Saturno, Mephisto repeatedly clashed with Wonder Woman from 1944 to 1947, trying to enslave humanity under his Emperors' wrathful rule. He and his master, now exiled on the moon Titan, would return in 1956 for one last bid for power... yet again Wonder Woman defeated them.
Space Ranger came equipped with an anti-gravity gun, a numbing gun, a thermo-blaze gun, explosi-discs, and dissolverizer as part of his arsenal. Using his vessel the Solar King to journey to his secret base in an asteroid between Mars-One and Jupiter-One, Space Ranger had an ideal vantage point to survey all that may transpire within his solar system and battled threats including his arch-enemy... the evil alien scientist Doctor Elektro.
Duke Saturno came armed with his anti-gravity ray projector, an invisibility ray, a reverse gravity ray guns, a disintegrator gun and a lassitude gas gun. He likewise could traverse space in his Saturnia vessel to and fro his homebase on Saturn-Two. On one occasion, he worked alongside the evil Doctor Vulture, an international affairs expert seeking to disrupt the peace and play into Saturno's hands.
Duke Saturno had a variety of female assistants, although they were all slaves of his, his main one being Eviless aka Saturnette... the counterparts of Irma Ardeen aka Saturn Girl of 30th century Earth-One. Both Irma and Eviless had the ability to mentally control others, although the former used them as one of the Legion of Super-Heroes, while the latter used them as Villany, Inc.'s leader.
Space Ranger had two key allies in his sidekick Cryll and secretary/girlfriend Myra Mason. Cryll was a shape-changing alien whom Rick had once saved, after which the two became best friends. Throughout the years, Cryll would use his ability to adopt various animal and plant forms in order to assist Space Ranger in his cosmic cases.
A shape-changer contemporeous with Duke Saturno had bedeviled their mutual foe Wonder Woman more than once, although he originated from Mars-Two as a minion of a different duke...the Duke of Deception. The doppleganger of Space Ranger's assistant Myra Mason was busy with a different spandex superhero, and never met the Duke.
Myra Mason's counterpart on Earth-Two was also named Myra Mason, the nurse and girlfriend of Doctor McNider. While Myra Mason of Earth-One was aware of Starr's alter ego as Space Ranger, and aided him on various adventures in the 22nd century, the Myra Mason of Earth-Two never seemed to connect the dots between her boss and boyfriend, and the masked manhunter known as Doctor Mid-Nite, even when becoming a female version of him with other girlfirends of Mid-Nite and his Justice Society allies.
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