Nick Carter

One of the oldest private detective characters in the United States, Nick Carter was busting bad guys long before Dick Tracy, the Shadow or Doc Savage came on the scene. First appearing in the dime novel adventure The Old Detective's Pupil; or The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square, published in September of 1886 from a story by one of the founders of Street and Smith. The character became very successful and in1915 Nick Carter Weekly became Detective Story Magazine and in the 1930's, due to the financial success of the Shadow and Doc Savage, Nick Carter was revised as a pulp hero that ran from 1933 to 1936. This lead to the Nick Carter, Master Detective radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting Network from 1943 to 1955. Following the success of the James Bond series in the 1960's, Carter was updated again, this time for a series of long running novels featuring him as secret agent Nick Carter aka the Killmaster. The first book, Run Spy Run was published in 1964 and more than 260 books followed, published until 1990. Nick's adventures were also the source of many original film's on the character, the first one dating back to France in 1908. If anyone who reads my blog wishes to read any of the Nick Carter books, whether it's his pulp reprints or Killmaster books, simply click this link http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Nick+Carter&x=0&y=0#/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Anick+carter+detective&keywords=nick+carter+detective&ie=UTF8&qid=1299987959. Or if you readers wish to listen to the classic Nick Carter radio show, go to http://www.radiospirits.com/ and search Nick Carter.  So get out there and sink your teeth into the adventures of America's original private detective today!