”Space Week” concludes with Space Detective #4. the fourth and final issue of a short-lived quarterly series from the publisher Avon.

Although the covers stressed that our hero was named “Rod Hathaway” inside he learn that was the name of the main characters secret identity, a wealthy far future philanthropist who secretly fought evil as Avenger. No definitive article, just “Avenger”. Along with identifying the writer of the first issue as pulp legend Walter Gibson the site suggests this elaborate name dodge was to keep from fringing on Magazine Enterprises character that was also called Avenger.

Hathway’s secretary Dot Kenny fought alongside him, using the fear inspiring pseudonym of…Teena. So, basically they weren’t so much “space detectives” but rather a pair of sort of costumed pseudo-superheroes who somehow managed to keep their true identities secret without benefit of any kind of disguise. The first issue featured art by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood and while lesser hands took over after the first issue the stories remained weird, sexy fun.