Nick Carter is a fictional character who began as a dime novel private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. The character was first conceived by Ormond
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From The New Magnet Library Collection at The George Peabody Library.
Charlotte Manson and Lon Clark in the Mutual series Nick Carter, Master Detective (1946)
Pulp magazines, also called "the pulps", were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The word pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines
Nick Carter (character)
…Story Magazine, but it was not successful. During the 1930s, due to the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage, Street & Smith revived Nick Carter in a pulp magazine (named Nick Carter Detective Magazine) that was published from 1933 to 1936. Since the Doc Savage character had basically been given Nick's background…
Cover of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective Stories vol. 2, #6 (April 1935) featuring "Bullet from Nowhere" by Robert Leslie Bellem
Planet Stories, a science fiction pulp published between 1939 and 1955
November 1927 issue of Black Mask, featuring The Continental Op
Cover of the pulp magazine Dime Mystery Book Magazine, January 1933