Fighting Blogger For Dale

Hey!
It looks like we get a post today after all.

So far, the biggest effect of the latest Upgrade to blogger is that the image uploader is even more frelled than before.

It used to be that the uploader would hang on a few images in the batch and just spin its wheels. So, the easy fix was close the window, then open it again and let it reload what was there. Then you could grab the couple/few it missed.

But now, when you close the window and re-open, it doesn't even try to remember what it had been doing - so start all over again and cross those extraneous digits. Maybe it'll get 'em all this time.

Half an hour later, we've got all the pages, but by now my mind has wandered and i've got no clue what i was going to write about them. So, those of you that dread wading through my blabbage to get to the comics, Thank Blogger.

And those of you who might actually wonder what i had to say - Thank Blogger, but in a different way.

Here's the complete run of Lucky Dale - Um...  something something something. I forgets...

While setting the tags, i realized that one of these stories ran here before from when it reprinted in Space Detective. Although Dale only had 5 stories, she appeared over a dozen times with reprints.

page art from The Saint #s 1, 2, & 4-6 (1947, 1948, 1949)

Not to be confused with Tony Hale, Captain Zep, Lance Lewis, or the upcoming animated movie from Swamp Media Group.

Once upon a time in the 1950s...

Though many have claimed the title over the decades, Rod Hathaway is my Space Detective. Well, technically, he's the secret identity and Avenger is the Space Detective. Teena is Teena - she doesn't need the extra name.
Together they starred in four issues from Avon in 1951:

Their first adventure was written by Walter Gibson (creator of The Shadow), and drawn by comic legends Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. That's some serious pedigree papers.
Let's go ahead and take a look at that story:

The title also featured back up tales, like this one starring Lucky Dale, Girl Detective with art from Warren Kremer:

There was also the occasional bit of silly fun...

(Actually, that was a reprint from 1938's Cocomalt Big Book of Comics)

Orlando and Wood didn't stick around long on the title, just the first issue and the frontpiece for #2. Somebody did a nice job taking over for them, but nobody knows who drew most of the remaining stories. Greg Fawcette did some nice work, as seen in the 3rd frontpiece at the top of the page, but most tales are uncredited. Up until less than 10 years ago, they had been attributed to Wally Wood, but that has since been established as incorrect. Here's a short tale from #3 for a look at the work:

If only we could hire Space Detective to investigate the mystery artists...

pages from Space Detective #s 1-4 (1951)