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