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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published July 1951
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Sol Cohen

Cover Details

Characters Avenger [Rod Hathaway]; Teena
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Wally Wood

1 page Space Detective foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Meet the Avenger and Teena, interplanetary crime fighters!"

Characters Avenger [Rod Hathaway]; Teena
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Wally Wood
Notes inside front cover

8 page Space Detective story "Bandits of the Starways"

Characters The Avenger [Rod Hathaway] (first appearance); Teena [Dot Kenny] (first appearance); Maag (villain; first appearance)
Genre science fiction
Script Walter Gibson
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Wally Wood
Letters typeset
Notes The Avenger may be billed as "Space Detective" to keep him from infringing on ME's Avenger character.

7 page Space Detective story "The Opium Smugglers of Venus"

Characters The Avenger [Rod Hathaway]; Teena; Maag (villain)
Genre science fiction
Script Walter Gibson
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Wally Wood
Letters typeset

7 page Space Detective story "Trail to the Asteroid Hideout"

Characters The Avenger [Rod Hathaway]; Teena; Maag (villain)
Genre science fiction
Script Walter Gibson
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Wally Wood
Letters typeset

1 page text story "Something For the Kids"

Letters typeset

7 page Lucky Dale story "Terror in the Night"

Characters Lucky Dale (introduction)
Genre detective
Pencils Warren Kremer
Inks Warren Kremer