Opium Smugglers of Venus – Space Detective Comics #1, July 1951

Picking up where we left off in the previous post, here’s the rest of Avenger’s (and Teena’s) debut adventure from Space Detective Comics #1. There’s a lot for us to talk about just on the first page, so strap yourself in and let’s hit the spaceways!

Rod Hathway, Space Avenger – Space Detective Comics #1, July 1951

Part of the fun of reading Golden Age comics is that you never know what you’ll encounter next. For every crazily inept (yet oddly entertaining) series like The Duke of Darkness, there seems to be a corresponding feature of surprising quality in which either the writing or the art (or sometimes both) delights you as a reader. Often these stories aren’t anyone’s idea of all-time classics, but reading them is just plain fun.

Science-fiction comics of the Golden Age often fall into this category.