Papercutz to Publish First American Power Rangers Comic since 1997

Europe has been enjoying an original Power Rangers comic strip since the early 2000s, but America is only now getting its first Power Rangers comic book since the 1997 one-shot from Acclaim.

The new Power Rangers comic book will be released by graphic novel publisher NBM through their PaperCutz imprint, and will feature original stories made for the comic, instead of adapting episodes from the Nickelodeon series.

The first volume, entitled Power Rangers Super Samurai: Memory Short, is planned to have 50 pages, and will be out in both hardcover and paperback versions on June 27, 2012. The story will be written by Stefan Petrucha, who has written a series of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew graphic novels for Papercutz in the past.