Rita Repulsa

Rita Repulsa is the iconic sorceress villain of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers universe, commanding monsters and magic against the color-coded teenage Rangers. Her comics debut adapted her well-known role as the Rangers' primary antagonist, bent on conquering Earth from her lunar palace.

Few villains in the Modern Age arrived with quite the cultural momentum of Rita Repulsa, who made her comics debut in 1995's Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Saga #1 from NBM, courtesy of creators Donald D. Markstein, John Heebink, and Sparky Moore. Born from one of the era's most recognizable pop-culture phenomena, she brought her iconic menace to the page sharing adventures with the likes of Billy Cranston and the color-coded Rangers — Blue, Pink, Black, and Yellow — who made the franchise a phenomenon. Her presence spans nearly a quarter-century of comics across titles including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, cementing her as one of the defining antagonists of her generation. For collectors with a soft spot for that electric early-Modern Age moment when Saturday-morning spectacle crashed headlong into comics, Rita Repulsa is an essential and thoroughly entertaining piece of the puzzle.