Soviet space program omitted reports of failure or trouble". Out of fear of admitting any defeat, reports of cosmonauts' missions leaned towards an exaggerated positive spin rather than factual substance. "The USSR was famously described by Winston Churchill as 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' and nothing signified this more than the search for the truth behind its space program during the Cold War. Although the Space Race was literally played out above our heads, it was often obscured by a figurative 'space curtain' that took much effort to see through" says Dominic Phelan in the book "Cold War Space
Mystery in Space the first of a series, yet Space Cabby returned just three issues later in "Hitchhiker In Space" ("Mystery In Space" #24, February–March 1955), and then had an unbroken 22-issue run until "The Riddle of the Rival Space Cabbies!" ("Mystery In Space" #47, October 1958). The next few issues featured only short stories, and it was almost a year before another continuing series appeared in the pages of "Mystery In Space". A story by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino, "Menace of the Robot Raiders!" ("Mystery In Space" #53, October 1959) featured one of the most enduring and fondly remembered space heroes